Sophia Scriptura

Excerpts from Theodotus 67.4

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

Summary: is complete; they say it refers to Wisdom, whose passions became creation, and from whose passion the Lord came to rescue us.

Greek text · Stählin 3:129

τὸ προλελογισμένον· ἀλλὰ περὶ τῆς ἄνω θηλείας αἰνίττεται, ἧς τὰ πάθη κτίσις γέγονεν τῆς καὶ τὰς ἀμόρφους οὐσίας προβαλ[λ]ούσης, διʼ ἣν καὶ ὁ κύριος κατῆλθεν, ἀπὸ μὲν τοῦ πάθους ἡμᾶς ἀποσπάσων, ἑαυτῷ δὲ εἰσποιησόμενος.

English · Claude translation

that was reckoned beforehand has been brought forth; but he hints at the female above, whose passions became creation, who also put forth the formless substances, because of whom the Lord too came down, to draw us away from the passion and adopt us to himself.

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Source
Stählin 3:129 · 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 letter in the Greek is the editor's deletion.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 67.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/67/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 67.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/67/4/).

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