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Excerpts from Theodotus 39.1

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

Summary: Wisdom, abandoned by Christ, produced nothing complete thereafter and keeps the angelic elements of the lower beings.

Greek text · Stählin 3:119

Ἡ μήτηρ προβαλοῦσα τὸν Χριστὸν ὁλόκληρον καὶ ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ καταλειφθεῖσα τοῦ λοιποῦ οὐκέτι οὐδὲν προέβαλεν ὁλόκληρον. ἀλλὰ τὰ δυνατὰ παρʼ αὑτῇ κατέσχεν, ὥστε καὶ τοῦ Τόπου καὶ τῶν κλητῶν [οὖν] τὰ ἀγγελικὰ αὐτὴ προβαλοῦσα παρʼ αὑτῇ κατέχει, τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν τῶν ἀγγελικῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ ἄρρενος ἔτι πρότερον προβεβλημένων.

English · Claude translation

The mother, having put forth Christ whole and been abandoned by him, from then on put forth nothing whole, but kept what she could by her; so that she keeps by her the angelic elements both of the Place and of the called, which she put forth herself, while the angelic elements of the elect had been put forth still earlier by the male.

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Source
Stählin 3:119 · 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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  • The bracketed word in the Greek is the editor's deletion.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 39.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/39/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 39.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/39/1/).

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