Excerpts from Theodotus 5.3

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

Summary: They saw the light not with fleshly eyes but because Christ's power strengthened them, the soul sharing its vision with the body.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:107

καίτοι οὐδὲ σαρκικοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς τὸ φῶς ἑωράκεισαν (οὐδὲν γὰρ συγγενὲς καὶ οἰκεῖον ἐκείνῳ τῷ φωτὶ καὶ τῇδε τῇ σαρκί), ἀλλʼ ὡς ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ βούλησις τοῦ σωτῆρος ἐνεδυνάμωσεν τὴν σάρκα εἰς τὸ θεάσασθαι· ἄλλως τε καὶ ὃ ἡ ψυχὴ εἶδεν, μετέδωκεν κοινωνούσῃ τῇ

English · Claude translation

And yet they had not seen the light with fleshly eyes (for there is nothing akin or proper to that light and this flesh), but as the power and will of the Savior strengthened the flesh to behold it; and besides, what the soul saw it shared with the flesh, its companion,

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Source: Stählin 3:107 · 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.
Topics: Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/5/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/5/3/).

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