Excerpts from Theodotus 64.1

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

Summary: and, with Wisdom and their angel bridegrooms, enter the bridal chamber and see the Father, becoming Aeons in eternal union.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:128

μητρὶ κομιζομένῃ τὸν νυμφίον. κομιζόμενα καὶ αὐτὰ τοὺς νυμφίους τοὺς ἀγγέλους ἑαυτῶν. εἰς τὸν νυμφῶνα ἐντὸς τοῦ Ὅρου εἰσίασι καὶ πρὸς τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς ὄψιν ἔρχονται, αἰῶνες νοεροὶ γενόμενα. εἰς τοὺς νοεροὺς καὶ αἰωνίους γάμους τῆς συζυγίας.

English · Claude translation

mother, who receives the Bridegroom, themselves receiving their bridegrooms, their angels, enter the bridal chamber within the Limit and come to the vision of the Father, having become intellectual Aeons, into the intellectual and eternal marriages of the pair.

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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

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 64.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/64/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 64.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/64/1/).

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