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Excerpts from Theodotus 23.4

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

Summary: Each knows the Lord in his own way; the angels of the elect see the Father's face.

Greek text · Stählin 3:114

ἰδίως γὰρ ἕκαστος γνωρίζει τὸν κύριον καὶ οὐχ ὁμοίως πάντες »τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ πατρὸς ὁρῶσιν οἱ ἄγγελοι τούτων· τῶν μικρῶν« τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν. τῶν ἐσομένων ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ κληρονομίᾳ καὶ τελειότητι.

English · Claude translation

For each knows the Lord in his own way, and not all alike; “their angels behold the face of the Father,” the angels of the little ones, the elect, who will be in the same inheritance and perfection.

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Source
Stählin 3:114 · 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.
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Topics
Heresy

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/23/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/23/4/).

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