Excerpts from Theodotus 30.1

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

Summary: Clement: forgetting God's glory, they impiously say that the Father suffered, as Theodotus holds.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:116–117

Εἶτα ἐκλαθόμενοι τῆς δόξης τοῦ θεοῦ παθεῖν αὐτὸν λέγουσιν ἀθέως. ὃ γὰρ συνεπάθησεν ὁ πατήρ, στερεὸς ὢν τῇ φύσει, φησὶν ὁ Θεόδοτος, καὶ ἀνένδοτος, ἐνδόσιμον ἑαυτὸν παρασχών, ἵνα ἡ σιγὴ τοῦτο καταλάβῃ, πάθος ἐστίν.

English · Claude translation

Then, forgetting the glory of God, they godlessly say that he suffered. For what the Father suffered with, says Theodotus, though he is firm and unyielding by nature, making himself yielding so that Silence might comprehend it, is suffering.

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Source: Stählin 3:116–117 · 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

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The first sentence is Clement's criticism.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 30.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/30/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 30.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/30/1/).

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