Excerpts from Theodotus 24.2

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

Summary: Clement answers that the Spirit at work in the church is the same Spirit who worked in the old covenant.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:115

ἀγνοοῦσι δὲ ὅτι ὁ Παράκλητος ὁ προσεχῶς ἐνεργῶν νῦν ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ τῆς αὐτῆς οὐσίας ἐστὶ καὶ δυνάμεως τῷ προσεχῶς ἐνεργήσαντι κατὰ τὴν παλαιὰν διαθήκην.

English · Claude translation

But they do not know that the Paraclete who now works directly in the church is of the same substance and power as the one who worked directly in the old covenant.

About this passage

Source: Stählin 3:115 · 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
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, Trinity

Notes

Translation notes

Against the Valentinian separation of the God of the Old Testament from the God of the New.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 24.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/24/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 24.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/24/2/).

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