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Didache 7.1

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

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
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.
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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