Excerpts from Theodotus 48.1

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

Summary: They read “let there be light” as the Demiurge's separating and revealing the pure substance, the sun's light coming later.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:122

Διακρίνας δὲ ὁ Δημιουργὸς τὰ καθαρὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐμβριθοῦς, ὡς ἂν ἐνιδὼν τὴν ἑκατέρου φύσιν, φῶς ἐποίησεν, τουτέστιν ἐφανέρωσεν καὶ εἰς φῶς καὶ ἰδέαν προσήγαγεν, ἐπεὶ τό γε ἡλιακὸν καὶ οὐράνιον φῶς πολλῷ ὕστερον ἐργάζεται·

English · Claude translation

The Demiurge, having separated the pure from the heavy, as one who perceived the nature of each, made light, that is, manifested it and brought it into light and form; for the light of the sun and heaven he makes much later.

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Source

Stählin 3:122 · 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

Gen 1:3 · allusion, high confidence
Gen 1:14 · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Heresy

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 48.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/48/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 48.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/48/1/).

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