Excerpts from Theodotus 42.2

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

Summary: Jesus carries the spiritual seeds on his shoulders into the Pleroma by the sign of the cross.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:120

διὸ καὶ τὰ σπέρματα ὁ Ἰησοῦς διὰ τοῦ σημείου ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων βαστάσας εἰσάγει εἰς τὸ πλήρωμα. ὦμοι γὰρ τοῦ σπέρματος ὁ Ἰησοῦς λέγεται, κεφαλὴ δὲ ὁ Χριστός.

English · Claude translation

That is why Jesus, carrying the seeds on his shoulders by means of the sign, brings them into the Pleroma. For Jesus is called the shoulders of the seed, and Christ the head.

About this passage

Source: Stählin 3:120 · 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. 42.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/42/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 42.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/42/2/).

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