# Didache 7.2

- Author: Anonymous
- Work: [Didache](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/) (*Doctrina duodecim apostolorum*)
- Date: ca. 50–150 (often ca. 100) (disputed)
- Source: Lake, LCL 24:320; 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 (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26
- Canonical URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/7/2/

Summary: Other water may be used if running water is not available.

## Greek text

ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἔχῃς ὕδωρ ζῶν, εἰς ἄλλο ὕδωρ βάπτισον· εἰ δʼ οὐ δύνασαι ἐν ψυχρῷ, ἐν θερμῷ.

## English translation (Claude)

If you do not have living water, baptize in other water; and if you cannot in cold, then in warm.

## Citation (SBL)

Did. 7.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/7/2/).