Excerpts from Theodotus 39.1
Summary: Wisdom, abandoned by Christ, produced nothing complete thereafter and keeps the angelic elements of the lower beings.
Greek text · Stählin 3:119
Ἡ μήτηρ προβαλοῦσα τὸν Χριστὸν ὁλόκληρον καὶ ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ καταλειφθεῖσα τοῦ λοιποῦ οὐκέτι οὐδὲν προέβαλεν ὁλόκληρον. ἀλλὰ τὰ δυνατὰ παρʼ αὑτῇ κατέσχεν, ὥστε καὶ τοῦ Τόπου καὶ τῶν κλητῶν [οὖν] τὰ ἀγγελικὰ αὐτὴ προβαλοῦσα παρʼ αὑτῇ κατέχει, τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν τῶν ἀγγελικῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ ἄρρενος ἔτι πρότερον προβεβλημένων.
English · Claude translation
The mother, having put forth Christ whole and been abandoned by him, from then on put forth nothing whole, but kept what she could by her; so that she keeps by her the angelic elements both of the Place and of the called, which she put forth herself, while the angelic elements of the elect had been put forth still earlier by the male.
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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 39.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/39/1/).
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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 39.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/39/1/).
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