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Excerpts from Theodotus 43.3

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

Summary: He becomes head of all things after the Father, in whom all things were created.

Greek text · Stählin 3:120

καὶ γίνεται κεφαλὴ τῶν ὅλων μετὰ τὸν πατέρα· »πάντα γὰρ ἐν αὐτῷ ἐκτίσθη τὰ ὁρατὰ καὶ τὰ ἀόρατα, θρόνοι, κυριότητες, βασιλεῖαι, θεότητες, λειτουργίαι·«

English · Claude translation

And he becomes head of all after the Father; “for in him all things were created, visible and invisible, thrones, lordships, kingdoms, divinities, ministries.”

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Source
Stählin 3:120 · 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
Heresy, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is a free form of Col 1:16.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 43.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/43/3/).

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Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 43.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/43/3/).

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