Excerpts from Theodotus 31.4

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

Summary: Wisdom's fall produced an emptiness, a shadow of the Name, the Son.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:117

ὅθεν καὶ κένωμα γνώσεως εἰργάσατο, ὅπερ ἐστὶ σκιὰ τοῦ ὀνόματος· ὅπερ ἐστὶν υἱός, μορφὴ τῶν αἰώνων. οὕτως τὸ κατὰ μέρος ὄνομα τῶν αἰώνων ἀπώλεια ἐστὶ τοῦ ὀνόματος.

English · Claude translation

Hence she produced an emptiness of knowledge, which is a shadow of the Name, which is the Son, the form of the Aeons. So the partial name of the Aeons is the loss of the Name.

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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.
Topics: Heresy

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 31.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/31/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 31.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/31/4/).

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