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Excerpts from Theodotus 44.2

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

Summary: They see in Wisdom's veil the reason for Paul's command that women be veiled “because of the angels.”

Greek text · Stählin 3:121

διὰ τούτου τοῦ μυστηρίου ὁ Παῦλος κελεύει τὰς γυναῖκας »φορεῖν ἐξουσίαν ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς διὰ τοὺς ἀγγέλους«. Εὐθὺς οὖν ὁ Σωτὴρ ἐπιφέρει αὐτῇ μόρφωσιν τὴν κατὰ γνῶσιν

English · Claude translation

By this mystery Paul commands women “to wear authority on their head because of the angels.” Immediately, then, the Savior brings her the formation according to knowledge

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Stählin 3:121 · 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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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 44.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/44/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 44.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/44/2/).

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