Excerpts from Theodotus 59.1

Summary: The Savior first put on the spiritual seed from Wisdom, containing it by his power,

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Greek text · Stählin 3:126

Σπέρμα μὲν οὖν πρῶτον τὸ παρὰ τῆς τεκούσης ἐνεδύσατο, οὐ χωρηθείς. ἀλλὰ χωρήσας αὐτὸ δυνάμει.

First, then, he put on the seed from the one who bore him, not being contained by it but containing it in power;

Source: Stählin 3:126 · 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. 59.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/59/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 59.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/59/1/).