Excerpts from Theodotus 38.3

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

Summary: Jesus sat beside the Demiurge to restrain the spirits, tame him, and open a way for the seed into the Pleroma.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:119

ἔνθεν καὶ ὁ Ἰησοῦς παρακληθεὶς συνεκαθέσθη τῷ Τόπῳ, ἵνα μένῃ τὰ πνεύματα καὶ μὴ προαναστῇ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἵνα τὸν Τόπον ἡμερώσῃ καὶ τῷ σπέρματι δίοδον εἰς πλήρωμα παράσχῃ.

English · Claude translation

Hence Jesus too, being summoned, sat down with the Place, so that the spirits might remain and not rise before him, and so that he might tame the Place and provide the seed a passage into the Pleroma.

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Source: Stählin 3:119 · 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. 38.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/38/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 38.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/38/3/).

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