Excerpts from Theodotus 10.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Above, the Only-begotten has his own pure substance and direct access to the Father's power; the first-created differ in number but are alike and equal.

Greek text · Stählin 3:109

ἄρρενά τε γὰρ καὶ θήλεα τὰ ἐνταῦθα καὶ διάφορα πρὸς αὐτά· ἐκεῖ δὲ ὁ μὲν μονογενὴς καὶ ἰδίως νοερὸς ἰδέᾳ ἰδίᾳ καὶ οὐσίᾳ ἰδίᾳ κεχρημένος ἄκρως εἰλικρινεῖ καὶ ἡγεμονικωτάτῃ καὶ προσεχῶς τῆς τοῦ πατρὸς ἀπολαύων δυνάμεως, οἱ δὲ πρωτόκτιστοι, εἰ καὶ ἀριθμῷ διάφοροι καὶ ὁ καθʼ ἕκαστον περιώρισται καὶ περιγέγραπται, ἀλλʼ ἡ ὁμοιότης τῶν πραγμάτων ἑνότητα καὶ ἰσότητα καὶ ὁμοιότητα ἐνδείκνυται.

English · Claude translation

For the things here are male and female and differ from one another. But there, the Only-begotten, who is properly intellectual, has his own form and his own substance, supremely pure and most sovereign, and enjoys directly the power of the Father; while the first-created, though they differ in number and each is defined and circumscribed, yet the likeness of their conditions shows unity, equality, and likeness.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 3:109 · 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

Text

As printed in Stählin, GCS 17. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

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

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 10.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/10/3/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 10.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/10/3/).