Excerpts from Theodotus 27.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The perfected soul passes beyond written teaching to direct knowledge, dwelling with the Bridegroom among the first-created as friend, son, and brother.

Greek text · Stählin 3:116

τὴν γοῦν ἀγγελικὴν διδασκαλίαν ὑπερβᾶσα καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τὸ διδασκόμενον ἐγγράφως ἐπὶ τὴν γνῶσιν καὶ κατάληψιν τῶν πραγμάτων ἔρχεται. οὐκέτι νύμφη. ἀλλʼ ἤδη λόγος γενόμενος καὶ παρὰ τῷ νυμφίῳ καταλύων μετὰ τῶν πρωτοκλήτων καὶ πρωτοκτίστων. φίλων μὲν διʼ ἀγάπην, υἱῶν δὲ διὰ τὴν διδασκαλίαν καὶ ὑπακοήν, ἀδελφῶν δὲ διὰ τὸ τῆς γενέσεως κοινόν.

English · Claude translation

At any rate, having passed beyond the teaching of angels and the Name taught in writing, it comes to the knowledge and apprehension of realities. No longer a bride, but having now become word, and lodging with the Bridegroom together with the first-called and first-created: friends through love, sons through teaching and obedience, brothers through their common origin.

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Source

Stählin 3:116 · 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

John 15:15 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 27.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/27/5/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 27.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/27/5/).