Excerpts from Theodotus 35.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Theodotus reads Christ's self-emptying as his leaving the Pleroma, bringing with him the angels of the spiritual seed for its correction.

Greek text · Stählin 3:118

ἑαυτὸν »κενώσας«, τουτέστιν ἐκτὸς τοῦ Ὅρου γενόμενος κατὰ Θεόδοτον, ἐπεὶ ἄγγελος ἦν τοῦ πληρώματος, τοὺς ἀγγέλους τοῦ διαφέροντος σπέρματος συνεξήγαγεν ἑαυτῷ· καὶ αὐτὸς μὲν τὴν λύτρωσιν ὡς ἀπὸ πληρώματος προελθὼν εἶχεν, τοὺς δὲ ἀγγέλους εἰς διόρθωσιν τοῦ σπέρματος ἤγαγεν·

English · Claude translation

who “emptied” himself, that is, according to Theodotus, came outside the Limit; since he was the angel of the Pleroma, he brought out with himself the angels of the superior seed. He himself had redemption, as having come forth from the Pleroma, but he led the angels for the correction of the seed.

About this passage

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.

Scripture

Phil 2:7 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 35.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/35/2/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 35.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/35/2/).