Excerpts from Theodotus 12.1

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

Summary: Each rank sees the one above it; the Son, called the Father's face, is the beginning of the vision of the Father.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:110

Οἱ πρωτόκτιστοι οὖν τόν τε υἱὸν ὁρῶσι καὶ ἑαυτοὺς καὶ τὰ ὑποβεβηκότα, ὥσπερ καὶ οἱ ἀρχάγγελοι τοὺς πρωτοκτίστους. ὁ δὲ υἱὸς ἀρχὴ τῆς πατρικῆς ὑπάρχει θέας, πρόσωπον τοῦ πατρὸς λεγόμενος.

English · Claude translation

The first-created, then, see the Son, themselves, and the beings below them, just as the archangels see the first-created. And the Son is the beginning of the vision of the Father, being called the face of the Father.

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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.
Topics: Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/12/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/12/1/).

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