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Excerpts from Theodotus 33.1

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

Summary: where he was joined to the Paraclete; Christ became an adopted son, “firstborn” of the lower world.

Greek text · Stählin 3:117

ἐκράθη, ὥσπερ τοῖς ὅλοις, οὕτω δὲ καὶ τῷ Παρακλήτῳ. υἱόθετος μέντοι γέγονεν ὁ Χριστὸς ὡς πρὸς τὰ πληρώματα ἐκλεκτὸς γενόμενος καὶ »πρωτότοκος« τῶν ἐνθάδε πραγμάτων.

English · Claude translation

and was mingled, as with all, so also with the Paraclete. Christ became an adopted son, as chosen for the fullnesses and “firstborn” of the things here.

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Stählin 3:117 · 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. 33.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/33/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 33.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/33/1/).

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