Excerpts from Theodotus 22.6

Summary: They say the angels were baptized in the Name that descended on Jesus as a dove.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:114

ἐβαπτίσαντο δὲ ἐν ἀρχῇ οἱ ἄγγελοι ἐν λυτρώσει τοῦ ὀνόματος τοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἐν τῇ περιστερᾷ κατελθόντος καὶ λυτρωσαμένου αὐτόν.

The angels were baptized in the beginning in the redemption of the Name that came down upon Jesus in the dove and redeemed him.

Source: Stählin 3:114 · 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
Text: As printed in Stählin, GCS 17. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
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, Baptism

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 22.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/22/6/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 22.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/22/6/).