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Excerpts from Theodotus 11.1

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

Summary: As are the angels who see the Father's face, so will the elect be when perfected; and the pure in heart will see God.

Greek text · Stählin 3:110

Ὅταν οὖν εἴπῃ ὁ κύριος »μὴ καταφρονήσητε ἑνὸς τῶν μικρῶν τούτων· ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν· τούτων οἱ ἄγγελοι τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ πατρὸς διὰ παντὸς βλέπουσιν«, οἷον τὸ προκέντημα, τοῖοι ἔσονται οἱ ἐκλεκτοί, τὴν τελείαν ἀπολαβόντες προκοπήν· »μακάριοι δὲ οἱ καθαροὶ τῇ

English · Claude translation

So when the Lord says, “Do not despise one of these little ones; truly I say to you, their angels always behold the face of the Father,” as is the model, so will the elect be when they have received perfect advancement. “And blessed are the pure in

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Stählin 3:110 · 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
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As printed in Stählin, GCS 17. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
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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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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 11.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/11/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 11.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/11/1/).

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