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Clement Of Alexandria, Excerpts From Theodotus, 81


nanThe material element of fire lays hold of all material things, and the pure and immaterial element lays hold of immaterial things such as demons, angels of evil and the devil himself. Thus the heavenly fire is dual in its nature, belonging partly to the mind, partly to the senses. By analogy, therefore, baptism is also dual in its nature, the sensible part works through water which extinguishes the sensible fire, but the intellectual through Spirit, a defense against the intellectual fire. And the material Spirit when it is little becomes food and kindling for the sensible fire, but when it has increased it has become an extinguisher, but the Spirit given us from above, since it is immaterial, rules not only over the Elements, but over the Powers and the evil Principalities.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Philo of Alexandria, On The Life of Abraham, 69-88, 68 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

68. The aforesaid emigrations, if one is to be guided by the literal expressions of the scripture, were performed by a wise man; but if we look to the laws of allegory, by a soul devoted to virtue and busied in the search after the true God.
2. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 16, 19-21, 15 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

3. New Testament, Colossians, 2.8-2.20 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

2.8. Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ. 2.9. For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily 2.10. and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power; 2.11. in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; 2.12. having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. 2.13. You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses; 2.14. having wiped out the handwriting in ordices that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; 2.15. having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 2.16. Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day 2.17. which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's. 2.18. Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind 2.19. and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth. 2.20. If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordices
4. New Testament, Ephesians, 2.3 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

2.3. among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
5. New Testament, Galatians, 4.3-4.9 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

4.3. So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under theelements of the world. 4.4. But when the fullness of the time came,God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law 4.5. thathe might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive theadoption of sons. 4.6. And because you are sons, God sent out theSpirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father! 4.7. Soyou are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heirof God through Christ. 4.8. However at that time, not knowing God, youwere in bondage to those who by nature are not gods. 4.9. But now thatyou have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do youturn back again to the weak and miserable elements, to which you desireto be in bondage all over again?
6. New Testament, Romans, 8.38-8.39 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

8.38. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers 8.39. nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
7. New Testament, Matthew, 28.19 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

28.19. Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
8. Clement of Alexandria, Extracts From The Prophets, 24, 42-44, 51-65, 19 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

9. Clement of Alexandria, Excerpts From Theodotus, 1.1, 22.1, 22.7, 23.5, 26.1, 32.2, 35.1, 41.1, 67.1, 76.3, 77.2-77.3, 78.2, 80.3, 81.2 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

10. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies, 5.35.1 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

11. Irenaeus, Refutation of All Heresies, 1.21.2-1.21.5, 3.17.1 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

12. Justin, First Apology, 61.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

13. Nag Hammadi, The Gospel of Philip, 75.23-75.25, 76.27-76.29 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

14. Nag Hammadi, The Tripartite Tractate, 105.10-105.16 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
angel Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 125
anointing Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123
archons Linjamaa, The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics (2019) 86
baptism Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123, 125
baptismal formulae, triadic Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 94
body Linjamaa, The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics (2019) 86
body and soul Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123, 125
by john the baptist, of jesus Hellholm et al., Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity (2010) 895
christ jesus, savior, and son Linjamaa, The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics (2019) 86
clement of alexandria Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 210; Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 424
clothing dirty Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123
cognitive theory Linjamaa, The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics (2019) 86
coptic Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 210
corruption (phthora) Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123
cosmology, cosmogony Linjamaa, The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics (2019) 86
demons and baptism Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123, 125
dualism Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 125
emotions passions Linjamaa, The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics (2019) 86
eucharist Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123
exorcism Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123
external vs. internal Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 125
fasting Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123
fate Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123; Linjamaa, The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics (2019) 86
fire Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123
gnosis Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 210
holy spirit, in baptismal formulae Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 94
inscriptions Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 94
invocation Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123
irenaeus Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 210
material humans/powers Linjamaa, The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics (2019) 86
nag hammadi Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 210
name Hellholm et al., Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity (2010) 900
passions emotions Linjamaa, The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics (2019) 86
paul, apostle Linjamaa, The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics (2019) 86
period of instruction Hellholm et al., Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity (2010) 900
philo of alexandria Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 210
prayer Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123
psychic humans/powers Linjamaa, The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics (2019) 86
rebirth Hellholm et al., Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity (2010) 910
ritual efficacy of Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 125
ritual theories of Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123, 125
sacred and profane Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 125
sacrifice Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123
satan' Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123
septuagint Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 424
sickness illness Linjamaa, The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics (2019) 86
silence Hellholm et al., Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity (2010) 910
theodotus Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 210
trinity Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 94
valentinian/valentinians Linjamaa, The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics (2019) 86
valentinians, valentinianism Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 210
valentinians Blidstein, Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017) 123, 125
water, of baptism Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 94
water Hellholm et al., Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity (2010) 910
woman femaleness Linjamaa, The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics (2019) 86