Excerpts from Theodotus 22.7

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

Summary: Theodotus even says that Jesus himself needed redemption.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:114

ἐδέησεν δὲ λυτρώσεως καὶ τῷ Ἰησοῦ, ἵνα μὴ κατασχεθῇ τῇ Ἐννοίᾳ ᾗ ἐνετέθη τοῦ ὑστερήματος προ[σ]ερχόμενος διὰ τῆς Σοφίας, ὥς φησιν ὁ Θεόδοτος.

English · Claude translation

And even Jesus needed redemption, so that he might not be held back by the Thought of the Deficiency in which he had been placed when he came forth through Wisdom, as Theodotus says.

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Source: Stählin 3:114 · 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.
Topics: Heresy, Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 22.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/22/7/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 22.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/22/7/).

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