Sophia Scriptura

Excerpts from Theodotus 27.4

Clement of Alexandria · Excerpts from Theodotus · ca. 200 · Alexandria · Read in context

Summary: The purified soul, seeing God face to face, no longer needs Scripture and study.

Greek text · Stählin 3:116

ποῦ δὲ ἔτι γραφῆς καὶ μαθήσεως κατόρθωμα τῇ ψυχῇ ἐκείνῃ τῇ καθαρᾷ γενομένῃ, ὅπου καὶ ἀξιοῦται »πρόσωπον πρὸς πρόσωπον« θεὸν ὁρᾶν;

English · Claude translation

Where is there still achievement by Scripture and learning for that soul which has become pure, where it is even counted worthy to see God “face to face”?

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Stählin 3:116 · Otto Stählin, ed., Clemens Alexandrinus, vol. 3, Stromata Buch VII und VIII, Excerpta ex Theodoto, Eclogae propheticae, Quis dives salvetur, Fragmente, GCS 17 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1909) · Greek text: Otto Stählin, Clemens Alexandrinus 3 (GCS 17, 1909), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
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Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Stählin (1909); made independently of existing English translations.
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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 27.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/27/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 27.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/27/4/).

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