Excerpts from Theodotus 77.1

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

Summary: Baptism is death to the old life, in which we renounce the evil powers, and life in Christ.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:131

Ταύτῃ θάνατος καὶ τέλος λέγεται τοῦ παλαιοῦ βίου τὸ βάπτισμα ἀποτασσομένων ἡμῶν ταῖς πονηραῖς ἀρχαῖς, ζωὴ δὲ κατὰ Χριστόν, ἧς μόνος αὐτὸς κυριεύει.

English · Claude translation

In this way baptism is called death and the end of the old life, as we renounce the evil principalities, and life according to Christ, of which he alone is Lord.

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Source

Stählin 3:131 · 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.

Scripture

Rom 6:3 · allusion, high confidence
Rom 6:4 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Baptism

Notes

Translation notes

“Renounce” (ἀποτασσομένων) is the word used for the baptismal renunciation of the devil. The allusion is Rom 6:3–4.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 77.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/77/1/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 77.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/77/1/).

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