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The Refutation of All Heresies
Chapter XIX.--Theodotus. 1
But Theodotus of Byzantium introduced a heresy of the following description, alleging that all things were created by the true God; whereas that Christ, he states, in a manner similar to that advocated by the Gnostics already mentioned, made His appearance according to some mode of this description. And Theodotus affirms that Christ is a man of a kindred nature with all men, but that He surpasses them in this respect, that, according to the counsel of God, He had been born of a virgin, and the Holy Ghost had overshadowed His mother. This heretic, however, maintained that Jesus had not assumed flesh in the womb of the Virgin, but that afterwards Christ descended upon Jesus at His baptism in form of a dove. And from this circumstance, the followers of Theodotus affirm that at first miraculous powers did not acquire operating energy in the Saviour Himself. Theodotus, however, determines to deny the divinity of Christ. Now, opinions of this description were advanced by Theodotus.
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[Vol. iii. p. 654, this series, where it should have been noted that the Appendix to Tertullian is supposed by Waterland to be "little else but an extract from Hippolytus." He pronounces it "ancient and of good value." See Wordsworth's remarks on the biblidarion, p. 59.] ↩
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Widerlegung aller Häresien (BKV)
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Nach Theodotos', des Byzantiers, Häresie ist die Welt zwar durch den wirklichen Gott entstanden, Christus aber ist ungefähr so erschienen, wie es die vorerwähnten Gnostiker lehren; Christus ist ein Mensch wie die anderen, unterscheidet sich dadurch von ihnen, daß er nach dem Ratschluß Gottes aus einer Jungfrau S. 281 geboren sei, die der Heilige Geist überschattete, doch hat er nicht in der Jungfrau Fleisch angenommen, später bei der Taufe ist Christus auf Jesus in Gestalt einer Taube herabgekommen, weswegen, wie sie sagen, die Kräfte nicht früher in ihm gewirkt hätten. Nach ihm ist Christus nicht Gott. Soweit Theodotos.
