Excerpts from Theodotus 37.1

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

Summary: The Valentinians say the righteous descendants of Adam are held with the Demiurge, the others in darkness feeling the fire.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:118

Οἱ ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἐξελθόντες οἱ μὲν δίκαιοι διὰ τῶν ἐκτισμένων τὴν ὁδὸν ποιούμενοι παρὰ τῷ Τόπῳ κατείχοντο κατὰ τοὺς Οὐαλεντινιανούς, οἱ δὲ ἕτεροι ἐν τῷ τοῦ σκότου ἐκτισμένῳ ἐν τοῖς ἀριστεροῖς, ἔχοντες συναίσθησιν τοῦ πυρός.

English · Claude translation

Of those who came from Adam, according to the Valentinians, the righteous, making their way through the created things, were held back beside the Place, while the others were in the creation of darkness, among those on the left, having consciousness of the fire.

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Source: Stählin 3:118 · 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, Eschatology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 37.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/37/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 37.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/37/1/).

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