Sophia Scriptura

Didache 7.1

Anonymous · Didache · ca. 50–150 (often ca. 100) · place unknown · Read in context

Pseudonymous: Its title presents it as 'the teaching of the Lord through the twelve apostles'; it was compiled by unknown authors from earlier material. It was rediscovered in 1873 in a manuscript of 1056 (Codex Hierosolymitanus) and published in 1883.

Summary: Baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in running water.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:318–320

Περὶ δὲ τοῦ βαπτίσματος, οὕτω βαπτίσατε· ταῦτα πάντα προειπόντες, βαπτίσατε εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος ἐν ὕδατι ζῶντι.

English · Claude translation

Concerning baptism, baptize in this way: having first said all these things, baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit in living water.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:318–320 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 308–333 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text
As printed in Lake, LCL 24. 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), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare
Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7 (1886) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
Scripture
Topics
Baptism, Trinity

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Living water” (ὕδατι ζῶντι): running water, as in a river or spring.
  • “Having first said all these things”: after teaching the candidate the Two Ways (chapters 1–6).

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Did. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/7/1/).

Plain text
Did. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/7/1/).

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