Excerpts from Theodotus 26.1

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

Summary: Theodotus says the visible Jesus was Wisdom and the Church of the spiritual seeds, the invisible part the only-begotten Son.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:115

Τὸ ὁρατὸν τοῦ Ἰησοῦ ἡ Σοφία καὶ ἡ Ἐκκλησία ἦν τῶν σπερμάτων τῶν διαφερόντων, ἣν ἐστολίσατο διὰ τοῦ σαρκίου. ὥς φησιν ὁ Θεόδοτος· τὸ δὲ ἀόρατον τὸ ὄνομα, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ὁ υἱὸς ὁ μονογενής.

English · Claude translation

The visible part of Jesus was Wisdom and the Church of the superior seeds, which he put on through the bit of flesh, as Theodotus says; but the invisible part is the Name, which is the only-begotten Son.

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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, Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/26/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/26/1/).

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