Sophia Scriptura

Excerpts from Theodotus 1.1

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

Summary: The Valentinians read Christ's dying words as committing to the Father the spiritual seed that Wisdom gave him as a covering when he came down.

Greek text · Stählin 3:105

»Πάτερ,« φησί, »παρατίθεμαί σοι εἰς χεῖρας τὸ πνεῦμά μου«. ὃ προέβαλε, φησί, σαρκίον τῷ Λόγῳ ἡ Σοφία, τὸ πνευματικὸν σπέρμα, τοῦτο στολισάμενος κατῆλθεν ὁ Σωτήρ.

English · Claude translation

“Father,” he says, “into your hands I commit my spirit.” What Wisdom put forth as a bit of flesh for the Word, the spiritual seed, this, he says, the Savior put on and came down.

About this passage

Source
Stählin 3:105 · 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, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • This work is a set of notes by Clement: excerpts from the Valentinian teacher Theodotus and his school (introduced by “he says” or “they say”), mixed with Clement's own comments (often introduced by “we say”). The translation keeps these markers so that the reader can tell whose view is given. Wisdom (Sophia) is a figure of the Valentinian myth. The quotation is Luke 23:46.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (stray space before the closing quotation mark): ερ, « → ερ,«.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 1.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/1/1/).

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Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 1.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/1/1/).

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