Excerpts from Theodotus 69.2

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

Summary: Each power rules those born when it is ascendant.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:129

καθὸ γὰρ ἕκαστον αὐτῶν ἔφθακεν τῇ τοῦ κόσμου κινήσει συναναφερόμενον, τῶν κατʼ αὐτὴν τὴν ῥοπὴν γεννωμένων εἴληχεν τὴν ἐπικράτειαν, ὡς αὑτοῦ τέκνων.

English · Claude translation

For according as each of them has arrived, carried round with the movement of the world, it has obtained dominion over those born at that very moment, as its own children.

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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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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 69.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/69/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 69.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/69/2/).

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