Excerpts from Theodotus 9.2
Summary: Some sayings are addressed to the called: the prodigal son, and those called from the roads to the wedding feast.
Greek text · Stählin 3:109
πάλιν ὅταν λέγῃ »ἐξέλθετε ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ πατρός μου«, τοῖς κλητοῖς λέγει· πάλιν τῷ ἐξ ἀποδημίας ἐλθόντι καὶ κατεδηδοκότι τὰ ὑπάρχοντα, ᾧ τὸν σιτευτὸν ἔθυσεν μόσχον, τὴν κλῆσιν λέγει. καὶ ὅπου ὁ βασιλεὺς εἰς τὸ δεῖπνον τοῦ γάμου τοὺς ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς κέκληκεν.
English · Claude translation
Again, when he says, “Go out from my Father's house,” he is speaking to the called. Again, to the one who came back from abroad and had devoured his property, for whom the father killed the fatted calf, he speaks of the calling; and where the king has called those on the roads to the wedding supper.
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- “Go out from my Father's house” is not an exact Gospel quotation (compare John 2:16). The allusions are Luke 15:13, 23 and Matt 22:9–10.
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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 9.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/9/2/).
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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 9.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/9/2/).
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