Excerpts from Theodotus 33.4

Summary: The Demiurge is inferior, born of desire; Wisdom was disgusted at his harshness.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:118

διὸ καὶ ἥττων γίνεται, ὡς ἂν ἐκ πάθους τῆς ἐπιθυμίας συνεστώς. ἐμυσάχθη μέντοι ἐνιδοῦσα τὴν ἀποτομίαν αὐτοῦ, ὥς φασιν αὐτοί.

That is why he is inferior, as constituted from the passion of desire. But she was disgusted, they say, when she saw his severity.

Source: Stählin 3:118 · 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

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 33.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/33/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 33.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/33/4/).