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Excerpts from Theodotus 8.1

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

Summary: Clement's view: the Word is God in God, in the Father's bosom, undivided, one God.

Greek text · Stählin 3:108

Ἡμεῖς δὲ τὸν ἐν ταὐτότητι λόγον θεὸν ἐν θεῷ φαμεν, ὃς καὶ »εἰς τὸν κόλπον τοῦ πατρὸς« εἶναι λέγεται, ἀδιάστατος, ἀμέριστος, εἷς θεός.

English · Claude translation

But we say that the Word in identity is God in God, who is also said to be “in the bosom of the Father,” without separation, without division, one God.

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Source
Stählin 3:108 · 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
Christology, Trinity

Notes

Translation notes

  • “In identity” (ἐν ταὐτότητι) means the Word in his identity with the Father.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 8.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/8/1/).

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Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 8.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/8/1/).

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