Excerpts from Theodotus 71.2

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

Summary: The powers differ, good and evil, right and left, and each birth falls under them at its own time.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:129–130

διάφοροι δʼ εἰσὶν καὶ οἱ ἀστέρες καὶ αἱ δυνάμεις, ἀγαθοποιοὶ κακοποιοί, δεξιοὶ ἀριστεροί, ὧν κοινὸν τὸ τικτόμενον· ἕκαστον δὲ διʼ αὐτῶν γίνεται κατὰ καιρὸν τὸν ἴδιον, τοῦ δυναστεύοντος τὰ κατὰ φύσιν ἀποτελοῦντος, τὸ μὲν ἐν ἀρχῇ, τὸ δὲ ἐπὶ τέλει.

English · Claude translation

The stars and the powers are different: beneficent and maleficent, right and left; what is born is common to them; and each thing comes to be through them at its own time, the one in power bringing about what is according to nature, at the beginning or at the end.

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Source: Stählin 3:129–130 · 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

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 71.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/71/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 71.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/71/2/).

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