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Excerpts from Theodotus 6.2

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

Summary: They identify “the Beginning” with the Only-begotten, called God in John 1:18.

Greek text · Stählin 3:107

ἀρχὴν μὲν γὰρ τὸν Μονογενῆ λέγουσιν, ὃν καὶ θεὸν προσαγορεύεσθαι, ὡς καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἑξῆς ἄντικρυς θεὸν αὐτὸν δηλοῖ λέγων· »ὁ μονογενὴς θεὸς ὁ ὢν εἰς τὸν κόλπον τοῦ πατρός, ἐκεῖνος ἐξηγήσατο.«

English · Claude translation

They say that the Beginning is the Only-begotten, who is also called God, as in what follows he plainly shows him to be God, saying, “The only-begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.”

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Source
Stählin 3:107 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is John 1:18 with the reading “only-begotten God.”

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 6.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/6/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 6.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/6/2/).

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