Excerpts from Theodotus 34.2

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

Summary: When Wisdom enters the Pleroma with the spiritual seeds, the Demiurge will take her place.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:118

τῆς μητρὸς οὖν μετὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τῶν σπερμάτων εἰσελθούσης εἰς τὸ πλήρωμα, τότε ὁ Τόπος τὴν ἐξουσίαν τῆς μητρὸς καὶ τὴν τάξιν ἀπολήψεται, ἣν νῦν ἔχει ἡ μήτηρ.

English · Claude translation

When the mother, then, enters the Pleroma with the Son and the seeds, then the Place will receive the mother's authority and rank, which the mother now has.

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Source: Stählin 3:118 · 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. 34.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/34/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 34.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/34/2/).

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