Excerpts from Theodotus 6.3

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

Summary: They see in John's prologue their pairs of aeons: Mind and Truth, Word and Life.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:107

τῷ δὲ λόγῳ τῷ ἐν τῇ ἀρχῇ, τοῦτʼ ἐστὶν ἐν τῷ Μονογενεῖ, ἐν τῷ Νῷ καὶ τῇ Ἀληθείᾳ, μηνύει τὸν Χριστόν, τὸν Λόγον καὶ τὴν Ζωήν· ὅθεν εἰκότως καὶ αὐτὸν θεὸν λέγει τὸν ἐν τῷ θεῷ τῷ Νῷ ὄντα.

English · Claude translation

And by the Word that was in the Beginning, that is, in the Only-begotten, in Mind and Truth, he indicates Christ, the Word and Life; hence he fittingly calls him God too, being in God, in Mind.

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Source: Stählin 3:107 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

Mind, Truth, Word, and Life are aeons (divine emanations) in the Valentinian system.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/6/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/6/3/).

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