Excerpts from Theodotus 23.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: In their myth Christ asks the Aeons to help Wisdom, and Jesus is sent forth as her Paraclete; Paul is a type of the Paraclete.

Greek text · Stählin 3:114

Χριστὸς γὰρ καταλείψας τὴν προβαλοῦσαν αὐτὸν Σοφίαν εἰσελθὼν εἰς τὸ πλήρωμα ὑπὲρ τῆς ἔξω καταλειφθείσης Σοφίας ᾐτήσατο τὴν βοήθειαν. καὶ ἐξ εὐδοκίας τῶν αἰώνων Ἰησοῦς προβάλλεται παράκλητος τῷ παρελθόντι αἰῶνι. ἐν τύπῳ δὲ Παρακλήτου ὁ Παῦλος ἀναστάσεως ἀπόστολος γέγονεν.

English · Claude translation

For Christ, leaving Wisdom who had put him forth, entered the Pleroma and asked help for Wisdom, who was left outside; and by the good pleasure of the Aeons Jesus is put forth as Paraclete for the Aeon who had transgressed. And Paul became the apostle of the resurrection in the type of the Paraclete.

About this passage

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

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 23.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/23/2/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 23.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/23/2/).