Excerpts from Theodotus 77.2

Summary: Baptism changes the soul, not the body.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:131

ἡ δύναμις δὲ τῆς μεταβολῆς τοῦ βαπτισθέντος οὐ περὶ τὸ σῶμα (ὁ αὐτὸς γὰρ ἀναβαίνει), ἀλλὰ περὶ ψυχήν.

The power of the change in the one baptized does not concern the body (for the same person comes up), but the soul.

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.
Topics: Baptism

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 77.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/77/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 77.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/77/2/).