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Excerpts from Theodotus 31.1

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

Summary: They argue that since the fullness dwelt in the Savior who suffered, the whole suffered with him.

Greek text · Stählin 3:117

Ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰ ὁ κατελθὼν εὐδοκία τοῦ ὅλου ἦν (»ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα ἦν σωματικῶς«), ἔπαθεν δὲ οὗτος, δῆλον ὅτι καὶ τὰ ἐν αὐτῷ σπέρματα συνέπαθεν, διʼ ὧν τὸ ὅλον καὶ τὸ πᾶν εὑρίσκεται πάσχον.

English · Claude translation

But even if the one who came down was the good pleasure of the whole (“for in him the whole Pleroma was bodily”), and he suffered, it is clear that the seeds in him suffered with him, through which the whole and the all are found suffering.

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Source
Stählin 3:117 · 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.
Scripture
  • Col 2:9 · quotation, high confidence
  • Col 1:19 · quotation, medium confidence
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is a form of Col 2:9 (1:19).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 31.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/31/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 31.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/31/1/).

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