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Excerpts from Theodotus 4.1

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

Summary: Clement: at the Transfiguration Christ revealed his glory for the church's sake, to show its future after death.

Greek text · Stählin 3:106

Ὁ κύριος διὰ πολλὴν ταπεινοφροσύνην οὐχ ὡς ἄγγελος ὤφθη, ἀλλʼ ὡς ἄνθρωπος, καὶ ὅτε ἐν δόξῃ ὤφθη τοῖς ἀποστόλοις ἐπὶ τοῦ ὄρους, οὐ διʼ ἑαυτὸν ἐποίησεν δεικνὺς ἑαυτόν, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, ἥτις ἐστὶ »τὸ γένος τὸ ἐκλεκτόν«, ἵνα μάθῃ τὴν προκοπὴν αὐτοῦ μετὰ τὴν ἐκ τῆς σαρκὸς ἔξοδον.

English · Claude translation

Through great humility the Lord appeared not as an angel but as a man. And when he appeared in glory to the apostles on the mountain, he did it not for his own sake, showing himself, but for the church, which is “the chosen race,” so that it might learn its own advancement after its departure from the flesh.

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Source
Stählin 3:106 · 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
Topics
Christology, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusions are Matt 17:1–2 and 1 Pet 2:9.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/4/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/4/1/).

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