Excerpts from Theodotus 70.1

Summary: The powers riding on the stars control births;

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Greek text · Stählin 3:129

Διὰ τῶν ἀπλανῶν τοίνυν καὶ πλανωμένων ἄστρων αἱ ἐπὶ τούτων ἀόρατοι δυνάμεις ἐποχούμεναι ταμιεύουσι τὰς γενέσεις καὶ ἐπισκοποῦσι·

Through the fixed and the wandering stars, then, the invisible powers riding on them dispense and oversee births;

Source: Stählin 3:129 · 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

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 70.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/70/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 70.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/70/1/).