Excerpts from Theodotus 63.1

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

Summary: The spiritual rest with Wisdom in the Ogdoad; other faithful souls are with the Demiurge until the end, when they too enter the Ogdoad.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:128

Ἡ μὲν οὖν τῶν πνευματικῶν ἀνάπαυσις ἐν κυριακῇ, ἐν ὀγδοάδι, ἣ κυριακὴ ὀνομάζεται, παρὰ τῇ μητρί, ἐχόντων τὰς ψυχάς, τὰ ἐνδύματα. ἄχρι συντελείας. αἱ δὲ ἄλλαι πισταὶ ψυχαὶ παρὰ τῷ Δημιουργῷ, περὶ δὲ τὴν συντέλειαν ἀναχωροῦσι καὶ αὗται εἰς ὀγδοάδα.

English · Claude translation

The rest of the spiritual, then, is in the Lord's place, in the Ogdoad, which is called the Lord's, with the mother, having their souls as garments, until the consummation. The other faithful souls are with the Demiurge, but at the consummation they too withdraw into the Ogdoad.

About this passage

Source: Stählin 3:128 · 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, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

The Ogdoad (“eighth”) is the region above the seven heavens.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 63.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/63/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 63.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/63/1/).

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