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Excerpts from Theodotus 8.2

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

Summary: All things were made through the Word; the Savior, firstborn of creation, revealed the Father.

Greek text · Stählin 3:108

»πάντα διʼ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο«. κατὰ τὴν προσεχῆ ἐνέργειαν τοῦ ἐν ταὐτότητι λόγου, τά τε πνευματικὰ καὶ νοητὰ καὶ αἰσθητά. »οὗτος τὸν κόλπον τοῦ πατρὸς ἐξηγήσατο«. ὁ σωτὴρ καὶ [Ἡσαΐας »καὶ ἀνταποδώσω τὰ ἔργα αὐτῶν εἰς τὸν κόλπον αὐτῶν«, εἰς τὴν ἔννοιαν αὐτῶν τὴν ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ, ἀφʼ ἧς πρώτης ἐνεργεῖται] »πρωτότοκος πάσης κτίσεως«.

English · Claude translation

“All things came into being through him,” by the immediate activity of the Word in identity, spiritual, intelligible, and sensible things alike. “This one declared the bosom of the Father”: the Savior, “the firstborn of all creation.”

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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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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are John 1:3, John 1:18, and Col 1:15. The edition brackets as a later insertion a gloss on the word “bosom” from Isa 65:6 (“I will repay their works into their bosom,” that is, into their mind; Isa 65:6), which is omitted in the translation.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 8.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/8/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 8.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/8/2/).

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