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Excerpts from Theodotus 21.2

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

Summary: They say Eve was formed from the female seed taken from Adam.

Greek text · Stählin 3:113

οὕτως καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ Ἀδὰμ τὸ μὲν ἀρρενικὸν ἔμεινεν αὐτῷ, πᾶν δὲ τὸ θηλυκὸν σπέρμα ἀρθὲν ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ Εὔα γέγονεν, ἀφʼ ἧς αἱ θήλειαι, ὡς ἀπʼ ἐκείνου οἱ ἄρρενες.

English · Claude translation

So too in the case of Adam, the male remained in him, but all the female seed was taken from him and became Eve, from whom come females, as from him males.

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Source
Stählin 3:113 · 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.
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Heresy

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 21.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/21/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 21.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/21/2/).

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