Excerpts from Theodotus 31.2

Summary: The Pleroma, they say, learned from the fall of the twelfth Aeon.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:117

ἀλλὰ καὶ διὰ τῆς τοῦ δωδεκάτου αἰῶνος πείσεως τὰ ὅλα παιδευθέντα, ὥς φασι, συνεπάθησεν.

But also, they say, the whole, instructed by the experience of the twelfth Aeon, suffered with it.

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.
Topics: Heresy

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 31.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/31/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 31.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/31/2/).