Excerpts from Theodotus 33.3

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

Summary: They say Wisdom then produced the Demiurge as a copy of Christ, and a type of the Father.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:117–118

Χριστοῦ, φασί, τὸ ἀνοίκειον φυγόντος καὶ συσταλέντος εἰς τὸ πλήρωμα, ἐκ τῆς μητρῴας γενομένου ἐννοίας, ἡ μήτηρ αὖθις τὸν τῆς οἰκονομίας προηγάγετο ἄρχοντα εἰς τύπον τοῦ φυγόντος αὐτὴν κατʼ ἐπιπόθησιν αὐτοῦ, κρείττονος ὑπάρχοντος, ὃς ἦν τύπος τοῦ πατρὸς τῶν ὅλων.

English · Claude translation

When Christ, they say, fled what was alien and withdrew into the Pleroma, having come from his mother's thought, the mother in turn brought forth the Ruler of the plan, as a type of the one who fled her, out of longing for him, since he was superior; and he was a type of the Father of all.

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Source: Stählin 3:117–118 · 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

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 33.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/33/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 33.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/33/3/).

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