Excerpts from Theodotus 35.4

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

Summary: since they cannot enter the Pleroma without us.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:118

ἵνα συνεισέλθωμεν αὐτοῖς· σχεδὸν γὰρ ἡμῶν χρείαν ἔχοντες, ἵνα εἰσέλθωσιν, ἐπεὶ ἄνευ ἡμῶν οὐκ ἐπιτρέπεται αὐτοῖς (διὰ τοῦτο γὰρ οὐδὲ ἡ μήτηρ συνελήλυθεν ἄνευ ἡμῶν, φασίν), εἰκότως ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν δέονται.

English · Claude translation

so that we may enter with them. For since they almost need us in order to enter, since without us it is not permitted them (for that is why the mother too has not entered without us, they say), they fittingly plead for us.

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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. 35.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/35/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 35.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/35/4/).

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