Excerpts from Theodotus 41.1

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

Summary: Theodotus says the spiritual seeds came forth as children, not as passions or creatures.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:119

Τὰ διαφέροντα σπέρματά φησι μήτε ὡς πάθη, ὧν λυομένων συνελύθη ἂν καὶ τὰ σπέρματα, μήτε ὡς κτίσιν προεληλυθέναι, ἀλλʼ ὡς τέκνα.

English · Claude translation

He says that the superior seeds came forth neither as passions, in which case, when these were dissolved, the seeds too would have been dissolved, nor as creation, but as children.

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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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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 41.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/41/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 41.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/41/1/).

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