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Prophetic Extracts 5.2

Clement of Alexandria · Prophetic Extracts · ca. 200 · Alexandria · Read in context

Summary: Baptism, the sign of regeneration, is an escape from the rushing stream of matter through Christ's teaching.

Greek text · Stählin 3:138

καὶ μή τι αὐτὸ τὸ βάπτισμα ἀναγεννήσεως ὑπάρχον σημεῖον τῆς ὕλης ἐστὶν ἔκβασις διὰ τῆς τοῦ σωτῆρος διδασκαλίας, μεγάλου καὶ σφοδροῦ ῥεύματος ἀεὶ φερομένου καὶ παραφέροντος ἡμᾶς.

English · Claude translation

And is not baptism itself, being a sign of regeneration, a way out of matter through the Savior's teaching, matter which is a great and violent stream always rushing on and sweeping us along?

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Source
Stählin 3:138 · 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
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.
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Baptism

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/5/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/5/2/).

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