Excerpts from Theodotus 23.5

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

Summary: The Father's “face” is the Son and what the Son reveals; the rest of the Father remains unknown.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:114–115

τάχα δὲ τὸ πρόσωπον ἔστι μὲν καὶ ὁ υἱός, ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὅσον καταληπτὸν τοῦ πατρὸς διʼ υἱοῦ δεδιδαγμένοι θεωροῦσι, τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν ἄγνωστόν ἐστι τοῦ πατρός.

English · Claude translation

Perhaps the face is the Son, and also as much of the Father as is comprehensible, which they contemplate, having been taught by the Son; but the rest of the Father is unknown.

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Source: Stählin 3:114–115 · 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. 23.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/23/5/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 23.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/23/5/).

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