Excerpts from Theodotus 19.5

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

Summary: “The form of a servant” means both his flesh and created substance, which is subject to the sovereign cause.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:113

ὅθεν καὶ »μορφὴν δούλου λαβεῖν« εἴρηται, οὐ μόνον τὴν σάρκα κατὰ τὴν παρουσίαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν οὐσίαν ἐκ τοῦ ὑποκειμένου, δούλη δὲ ἡ οὐσία, ὡς ἂν παθητὴ καὶ ὑποκειμένη τῇ δραστηρίῳ καὶ κυριωτάτῃ αἰτίᾳ.

English · Claude translation

Hence he is also said to have “taken the form of a servant,” not only the flesh at his coming, but also substance from the substrate; and substance is a servant, as passive and subject to the active and most sovereign cause.

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Source

Stählin 3:113 · 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

Phil 2:7 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 19.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/19/5/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 19.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/19/5/).

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