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Excerpts from Theodotus 43.4

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

Summary: God exalted him above every name; he is the one who descended and ascended.

Greek text · Stählin 3:120

»διὸ καὶ ὁ θεὸς αὐτὸν ὑπερύψωσεν καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ ὄνομα τὸ ὑπὲρ πᾶν ὄνομα, ἵνα πᾶν γόνυ κάμψῃ καὶ πᾶσα γλῶσσα ἐξομολογήσηται, ὅτι κύριος τῆς δόξης Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς σωτήρ,« »ἀναβὰς αὐτὸς καὶ καταβάς·

English · Claude translation

“Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name above every name, so that every knee should bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ the Savior is Lord of glory,” “he who ascended and descended.

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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.
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Topics
Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are Phil 2:9–11 (with “Lord of glory” and “Savior”) and Eph 4:9–10.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (stray space before the closing quotation mark): ήρ, « → ήρ,«.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 43.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/43/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 43.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/43/4/).

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