Excerpts from Theodotus 36.2

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

Summary: Jesus was baptized, the undivided being divided, to unite divided humanity with the angels in the Pleroma.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:118

ἐπεὶ δὲ ἡμεῖς ἦμεν, οἱ μεμερισμένοι, διὰ τοῦτο ἐβαπτίσατο ὁ Ἰησοῦς, τὸ ἀμέριστον μερισθῆναι, μέχρις ἡμᾶς ἑνώσῃ αὐτοῖς εἰς τὸ πλήρωμα, ἵνα ἡμεῖς, οἱ πολλοὶ ἓν γενόμενοι, [οἱ] πάντες τῷ ἑνὶ τῷ διʼ ἡμᾶς μερισθέντι ἀνακραθῶμεν.

English · Claude translation

But since we were divided, Jesus was baptized for this reason: that the undivided should be divided, until he unites us with them in the Pleroma, so that we, the many, having become one, may all be mingled with the One who was divided for our sake.

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.
Topics: Heresy, Baptism

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 36.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/36/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 36.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/36/2/).

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