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Excerpts from Theodotus 38.1

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

Summary: A river of fire flows from the Demiurge's throne into Gehenna; the Demiurge himself is fiery.

Greek text · Stählin 3:118

Ποταμὸς ἐκπορεύεται πυρὸς ὑποκάτω τοῦ θρόνου τοῦ Τόπου, καὶ ῥεῖ εἰς τὸ κενὸν τοῦ ἐκτισμένου, ὅ ἐστιν ἡ γέεννα, ἀπὸ κτίσεως τοῦ πυρὸς ῥέοντος μὴ πληρουμένη· καὶ αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ Τόπος πύρινός ἐστι.

English · Claude translation

A river of fire goes out from beneath the throne of the Place and flows into the void of what was created, which is Gehenna, never filled, though the fire has been flowing into it since creation; and the Place himself is fiery.

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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.
Scripture
Topics
Heresy, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The image is from Dan 7:10.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 38.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/38/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 38.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/38/1/).

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