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Excerpts from Theodotus 75.2

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

Summary: The Magi recognized from the star that a king of the God-fearing was born; then only the Jews were famous for piety.

Greek text · Stählin 3:130

αὐτίκα οἱ μάγοι οὐ μόνον εἶδον τὸν ἀστέρα τοῦ κυρίου, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἀληθὲς ἔγνωσαν ὅτι βασιλεὺς ἐτέχθη καὶ ὧν βασιλεύς, ὅτι θεοσεβῶν· τότε Ἰουδαῖοι μόνοι διαβόητοι ἦσαν ἐπὶ θεοσεβείᾳ.

English · Claude translation

For instance, the Magi not only saw the Lord's star but recognized the truth, that a king was born, and of whom he was king: of the God-fearing. At that time the Jews alone were renowned for piety.

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Source
Stählin 3:130 · 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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Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 75.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/75/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 75.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/75/2/).

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