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Excerpts from Theodotus 81.2

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

Summary: Baptism is double: water quenches the visible fire, the Spirit protects against the spiritual fire.

Greek text · Stählin 3:132

καὶ τὸ βάπτισμα οὖν διπλοῦν ἀναλόγως, τὸ μὲν αἰσθητὸν διʼ ὕδατος, τοῦ αἰσθητοῦ πυρὸς σβεστήριον, τὸ δὲ νοητὸν διὰ πνεύματος, τοῦ νοητοῦ πυρὸς ἀλεξητήριον.

English · Claude translation

And baptism is correspondingly double: the sensible, through water, quenching the sensible fire; and the intelligible, through the Spirit, a defense against the intelligible fire.

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Source
Stählin 3:132 · 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
Topics
Baptism

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 81.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/81/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 81.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/81/2/).

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