# Excerpta ex Theodoto 38

Clement of Alexandria, Excerpta ex Theodoto, Chapter 38. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/clement-of-alexandria/excerpta-ex-theodoto/38

Ποταμὸς ἐκπορεύεται πυρὸς ὑποκάτω τοῦ θρόνου τοῦ Τόπου, καὶ ῥεῖ εἰς τὸ κενὸν τοῦ ἐκτισμένου, ὅ ἐστιν ἡ γέεννα, ἀπὸ κτίσεως τοῦ πυρὸς ῥέοντος μὴ πληρουμένη· καὶ αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ Τόπος πύρινός ἐστι. διὰ τοῦτο, φησί, καταπέτασμα ἔχει, ἵνα μὴ ἐκ τῆς προσόψεως ἀναλωθῇ τὰ πνεύματα· μόνος δὲ ὁ ἀρχάγγελος εἰσέρχεται πρὸς αὐτόν, οὗ κατ᾿ εἰκόνα καὶ ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς ἅπαξ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ εἰς τὰ ἅγια τῶν ἁγίων εἰσῄει. ἔνθεν καὶ ὁ Ἰησοῦς παρακληθεὶς συνεκαθέσθη τῷ Τόπῳ, ἵνα μένῃ τὰ πνεύματα καὶ μὴ προαναστῇ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἵνα τὸν Τόπον ἡμερώσῃ καὶ τῷ σπέρματι δίοδον εἰς πλήρωμα παράσχῃ.

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Clement of Alexandria, Excerpta ex Theodoto, ed. Otto Stählin. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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