Excerpts from Theodotus 55.2

Summary: Adam does not transmit the divine spirit or breath by begetting,

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Greek text · Stählin 3:125

οὔτʼ οὖν ἀπὸ τοῦ πνεύματος οὔτʼ οὖν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐμφυσήματος σπείρει ὁ Ἀδάμ· θεῖα γὰρ ἄμφω.

So Adam does not beget from the spirit, nor from what was breathed into him; for both are divine.

Source: Stählin 3:125 · 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. 55.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/55/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 55.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/55/2/).