Sophia Scriptura

Excerpts from Theodotus 11.2

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

Summary: The apostle speaks of heavenly bodies; spiritual beings with different names must have forms.

Greek text · Stählin 3:110

καρδίᾳ, ὅτι αὐτοὶ τὸν θεὸν ὄψονται.« πρόσωπον δὲ τοῦ ἀσχηματίστου πῶς ἂν εἴη; σώματα γοῦν ἐπουράνια εὔμορφα καὶ νοερὰ οἶδεν ὁ ἀπόστολος. πῶς δʼ ἂν καὶ ὀνόματα διάφορα αὐτῶν ἐλέγετο, εἰ μὴ σχήμασιν ἦν περιγεγραμμένα, μορφῇ καὶ σώματι;

English · Claude translation

heart, for they shall see God.” But how could there be a face of what has no figure? At any rate, the apostle knows of heavenly bodies, well-formed and intellectual. And how could different names be given them, if they were not circumscribed by figures, form, and body?

About this passage

Source
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
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.
Scripture
Topics
Eschatology

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/11/2/).

The SBL abbreviation for this work has not been checked yet.

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/11/2/).

Download citation:BibTeX ·RIS (Zotero, EndNote)

Whole work:BibTeX ·RIS ·Markdown text

Report an error in this passage