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Excerpts from Theodotus 15.2

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

Summary: Seeing “face to face” implies form and body, since figure is seen by figure.

Textual problem in this passage: the printed text is uncertain or disputed here. See the notes.

Greek text · Stählin 3:111–112

καὶ πάλιν· »ἄρτι βλέπομεν διʼ ἐσόπτρου ἐν αἰνίγματι, τότε δὲ πρόσωπον πρὸς πρόσωπον.« αὐτίκα γὰρ ἀρχόμεθα γινώσκειν * *. οὗ δὲ πρόσωπον. καὶ ἰδέα καὶ σχῆμα καὶ σῶμα. σχῆμα μὲν οὖν σχήματι θεωρεῖται καὶ πρόσωπον προσώπῳ καὶ ἐπιγινώσκεται τὰ γνωρίσματα τοῖς σχήμασι καὶ ταῖς οὐσίαις.

English · Claude translation

And again: “Now we see through a mirror in a riddle, but then face to face.” For immediately we begin to know … And where there is a face, there is also form, figure, and body. Figure is seen by figure, face by face, and distinguishing marks are recognized by figures and substances.

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Stählin 3:111–112 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.
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.
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The asterisks in the Greek mark a gap in the manuscript. The quotation is 1 Cor 13:12.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 15.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/15/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 15.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/15/2/).

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