Excerpts from Theodotus 48.4

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

Summary: Fire pervades the other three elements, having no place of its own.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:122–123

ἐν δὲ τοῖς τρισὶ στοιχείοις τὸ πῦρ ἐναιωρεῖται καὶ ἐνέσπαρται καὶ ἐμφωλεύει καὶ ὑπὸ τούτων ἐξάπτεται καὶ τούτοις ἐπαποθνῄσκει, μὴ ἔχον τόπον ἀποτακτὸν ἑαυτοῦ ὡς καὶ τὰ ἄλλα στοιχεῖα. ἐξ ὧν τὰ συγκρίματα δημιουργεῖται.

English · Claude translation

Fire hovers in the three elements, is sown in them and lurks in them, is kindled by them and dies away in them, having no place assigned to itself as the other elements do; from these the compounds are fashioned.

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Source: Stählin 3:122–123 · 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. 48.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/48/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 48.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/48/4/).

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