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Excerpts from Theodotus 5.1

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

Summary: At the Transfiguration the disciples fell down at the voice, not the sight, because an unexpected voice astonishes more.

Greek text · Stählin 3:106–107

Πῶς οὖν τὴν μὲν ὄψιν τὴν φωτεινὴν ἰδόντες οὐκ ἐξεπλάγησαν, τὴν δὲ φωνὴν ἀκούσαντες ἔπεσον ἐπὶ γῆν; ὅτι ὦτα τυγχάνει ἀπιστότερα ὀφθαλμῶν καὶ ἡ παρὰ δόξαν φωνὴ μᾶλλον ἐκπλήσσει.

English · Claude translation

How then, when they saw the luminous sight, were they not astonished, but when they heard the voice they fell on the ground? Because ears are less believing than eyes, and an unexpected voice astonishes more.

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Source
Stählin 3:106–107 · 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
Translation
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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Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 5.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/5/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 5.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/5/1/).

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