Excerpts from Theodotus 78.1

Summary: They say Fate holds until baptism; after it astrology is no longer true.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:131

Μέχρι τοῦ βαπτίσματος οὖν ἡ Εἱμαρμένη, φασίν, ἀληθής, μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο οὐκέτι ἀληθεύουσιν οἱ ἀστρολόγοι.

Until baptism, then, Fate is real, they say; but after it the astrologers no longer speak the truth.

Source: Stählin 3:131 · 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: Baptism, Heresy

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 78.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/78/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 78.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/78/1/).