Excerpts from Theodotus 30.2

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

Summary: Theodotus argues that sympathy is suffering, and that the whole Pleroma suffered with the fallen Aeon.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:117

ἡ γὰρ συμπάθεια πάθος τινὸς διὰ πάθος ἑτέρου. ναὶ μὴν καὶ τοῦ πάθους γενομένου τὸ ὅλον συνεπάθησεν καὶ αὐτὸ εἰς διόρθωσιν τοῦ παθόντος.

English · Claude translation

For sympathy is someone's suffering through the suffering of another. Indeed, when the suffering occurred, the whole suffered with it too, for the correction of the one that suffered.

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Source: Stählin 3:117 · 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

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 30.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/30/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 30.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/30/2/).

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