Excerpts from Theodotus 45.1

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

Summary: The Savior healed Wisdom, showing her the Pleroma and removing her passions.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:121

καὶ ἴασιν τῶν παθῶν, δείξας ἀπὸ πατρὸς ἀγεννήτου τὰ ἐν πληρώματι καὶ τὰ μέχρι αὐτῆς· ἀποστήσας δὲ τὰ πάθη τῆς πεπονθυίας

English · Claude translation

and the healing of her passions, showing her the things in the Pleroma from the unbegotten Father down to herself; and, removing the passions of the one who had suffered,

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Source: Stählin 3:121 · 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. 45.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/45/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 45.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/45/1/).

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