Excerpts from Theodotus 50.2

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

Summary: The man “according to the likeness” is what the Demiurge breathed into him, of his own substance.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:123

ὁ δὲ »καθʼ ὁμοίωσιν« τὴν αὐτοῦ τοῦ Δημιουργοῦ ἐκεῖνός ἐστιν, ὃν εἰς τοῦτον »ἐνεφύσησέν« τε καὶ ἐνέσπειρεν, ὁμοούσιόν τι αὐτῷ διʼ ἀγγέλων ἐνθείς·

English · Claude translation

But the man “according to the likeness” of the Demiurge himself is the one he “breathed” into this one and sowed in him, placing in him something of the same substance as himself through angels.

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Source

Stählin 3:123 · 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 1:26 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 2:7 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 50.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/50/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 50.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/50/2/).

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