Excerpts from Theodotus 79.1

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

Summary: Once formed, the seed becomes a son of the bridegroom, freed from the cosmic powers.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:131

μορφωθὲν δὲ μετετέθη εἰς ἄνδρα καὶ υἱὸς νυμφίου γίνεται, οὐκέτι ἀσθενὴς καὶ τοῖς κοσμικοῖς ὑποκείμενος ὁρατοῖς τε καὶ ἀοράτοις, ἀλλʼ ἀνδρωθεὶς ἄρρην γίνεται καρπός.

English · Claude translation

but when formed, it has been changed into a man and becomes a son of the bridegroom, no longer weak and subject to the cosmic powers, visible and invisible, but, made a man, it becomes male fruit.

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Source: Stählin 3:131 · 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. 79.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/79/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 79.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/79/1/).

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