Excerpts from Theodotus 42.1

Summary: The Cross is a sign of the Limit: it separates believers from unbelievers.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:120

Ὁ Σταυρὸς τοῦ ἐν πληρώματι Ὅρου σημεῖόν ἐστιν· χωρίζει γὰρ τοὺς ἀπίστους τῶν πιστῶν ὡς ἐκεῖνος τὸν κόσμον τοῦ πληρώματος·

The Cross is a sign of the Limit in the Pleroma; for it separates the unbelievers from the believers as that separates the world from the Pleroma.

Source: Stählin 3:120 · 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

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 42.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/42/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 42.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/42/1/).