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The aim of this article is to present Clement of Alexandria’s response to the Valentinian concepts of baptism, with an emphasis not on his critical position (which is absolutely predominant), but on some of the elements that Clement is inspired by and which enrich his own theology by their creative adaptation. This is in particular the Valentinian conception of baptism as an entry into knowledge and into a new future, or as a spiritual resurrection that can be experienced already here in this world. The article draws on Clement’s Excerpts from Theodotus and Eclogae propheticae, as well as on his Paedagogus and Stromata.
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The so called Eclogae Propheticae, the last section of the fragmentary text that follows the seventh book of the Stromateis in the manuscript, consists of a set of exegetical notes on selected passages in the Scriptures. This paper focuses on the passage Ecl. 38–50 which includes esp. references to Psalm 17, the Book of Wisdom and also the Apocalypse of Peter. The references to the Apocalypse are analysed, their number and demarcations are questioned and individual ideas contained in their context are compared with Clement’s statements in Stromateis. On the basis of this comparison it seems probable that (most of) the references to the Apocalypse of Peter are not Clement’s direct quotations or allusions, but are parts of Clement’s excerpts from exegetical literature. The paper contains the Greek text and Czech translation of Ecl. 38–50 with the certain, probable and possible references to the Apocalypse highlighted.
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Clement of Alexandria is well known as the author of Stromata I–VII and Paedagogus I–III, and also the minor works Protrepticus and Quis dives salvetur?. There are several texts by Clement, however, which are often neglected by scholars concerned with Clement’s theology: the so-called Stromata VIII, Excerpta ex Theodoto, Eclogae propheticae and the extant fragments of Hypotyposes. These texts have been evaluated as Clement’s masterpiece by certain scholars while others perceive them as strange and dissonant to Clement’s “standard” theology represented by Stromata and Paedagogus. There were even opinions in the past claiming that these texts represent heretical ideas of a too young or too old Clement. The aim of this paper is to present these works in the light of contemporary scholarship and encourage a reading of these texts as valuable evidence of early Christian (orthodox and heterodox) biblical hermeneutics.
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