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Excerpts from Theodotus 7.4

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

Summary: The one who descended is never separated from the one who remained, as Paul says.

Greek text · Stählin 3:108

καὶ οὐδέποτε τοῦ μείναντος ὁ καταβὰς μερίζεται. φησὶ γὰρ ὁ ἀπόστολος· »ὁ γὰρ ἀναβὰς αὐτός ἐστι καὶ ὁ καταβάς.«

English · Claude translation

And the one who came down is never divided from the one who remained. For the apostle says, “For he who ascended is the same as he who descended.”

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Source
Stählin 3:108 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is a form of Eph 4:10.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 7.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/7/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 7.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/7/4/).

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