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Excerpts from Theodotus 8.3

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

Summary: The Only-begotten is the light of the church, once in darkness.

Greek text · Stählin 3:108

ὁ δὲ ἐν ταὐτότητι μονογενής, οὗ κατὰ δύναμιν ἀδιάστατον ὁ σωτὴρ ἐνεργεῖ, οὗτός ἐστι »τὸ φῶς« τῆς ἐκκλησίας τῆς πρότερον ἐν σκότῳ καὶ ἐν ἀγνοίᾳ οὔσης.

English · Claude translation

The Only-begotten in identity, by whose power the Savior works undivided, is “the light” of the church, which was formerly in darkness and ignorance.

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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

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 8.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/8/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 8.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/8/3/).

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