Excerpts from Theodotus 26.3

Summary: and will enter the Pleroma with him through the door.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:115

ὅταν δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς εἰσέρχηται, καὶ τὸ σπέρμα συνεισέρχεται αὐτῷ εἰς τὸ πλήρωμα διὰ τῆς θύρας συναχθὲν καὶ εἰσαχθέν.

and when he himself enters, the seed too enters with him into the Pleroma, gathered together and brought in through the door.

Source: Stählin 3:115 · 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. 26.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/26/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 26.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/26/3/).