Excerpts from Theodotus 23.1

Summary: The Valentinians call Jesus the Paraclete, full of all the Aeons.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:114

Τὸν Παράκλητον οἱ ἀπὸ Οὐαλεντίνου τὸν Ἰησοῦν λέγουσιν. ὅτι πλήρης τῶν αἰώνων ἐλήλυθεν, ὡς ἀπὸ τοῦ ὅλου προελθών.

The followers of Valentinus call Jesus the Paraclete, because he has come full of the Aeons, as having come forth from the whole.

Source: Stählin 3:114 · 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

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/23/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/23/1/).