Excerpts from Theodotus 7.1

Summary: In the Valentinian account, the unknown Father, wishing to be known, put forth the Only-begotten, who is knowledge,

Greek text · Stählin 3:108

Ἄγνωστος οὖν ὁ πατὴρ ὢν ἠθέλησεν γνωσθῆναι τοῖς αἰῶσι, καὶ διὰ τῆς ἐνθυμήσεως τῆς ἑαυτοῦ, ὡς ἂν ἑαυτὸν ἐγνωκώς, πνεῦμα γνώσεως οὔσης ἐν γνώσει προέβαλε τὸν Μονογενῆ. γέγονεν οὖν καὶ ὁ ἀπὸ γνώσεως, τουτέστι τῆς πατρικῆς ἐνθυμήσεως. προελθὼν γνῶσις. τουτέστιν ὁ υἱὸς.

English · Claude translation

The Father, then, being unknown, wished to be known to the Aeons, and through his own thought, as though knowing himself, a spirit of knowledge existing in knowledge, he put forth the Only-begotten. He who came from knowledge, that is, from the Father's thought, has become knowledge too, that is, the Son,

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Stählin 3:108 · 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

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As printed in Stählin, GCS 17. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

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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.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/7/1/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/7/1/).

Greek text · Stählin 3:108

English · Claude translation

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