Excerpts of Theodotus 33

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III. "In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth," both terrestrial and celestial things. And that this is true, the Lord said to Osee, "Go, take to thyself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: because the land committing fornication, shall commit fornication, departing from the Lord." For it is not the element of earth that he speaks of, but those that dwell in the element, those who have an earthly disposition.