{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2115.tlg026.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2115.tlg026.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2115.tlg026.local001","title":"De theophania","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"HIPPOLYTUS Scr. Eccl.","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2115-hippolytus-scr-eccl/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"De theophania [Dub.], ed. Achelis, op. cit., 257–263. Q: 1,957: Exeget., Homilet.","citationShort":"De theophania [Dub.], ed. Achelis, op. cit., 257–263."},"rights":{"text":"Document TEI P5 local en UTF-8.","url":null},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-29","sourceUrl":"https://maximus.tlg.uci.edu/canon.php","sourceLinkType":"catalogue","sourceRights":null,"citation":"De theophania. De theophania [Dub.], ed. Achelis, op. cit., 257–263.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2115.tlg026.local001","excerpt":"ἔχων τὸ ἀνθρώπινον σῶμα, κρύπτων δὲ τὸ τῆς θεότητος ἀξίωμα, ἵνα λάθῃ τοῦ δράκοντος τὸ πανούργευμα. καὶ οὐ μόνον ὡς κύριος ἐκτὸς τῆς βασιλικῆς δορυφορίας πρὸς τὸν Ἰωάννην παραγέγονεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡς ἄνθρωπος λιτὸς καὶ ὑπόχρεως ἁμαρτιῶν ἔκλινε τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ βαπτισθῆναι ὑπὸ Ἰωάννου. ὅθεν ὁ Ἰωάννης θεασάμενος τὴν τοσαύτην ταπεινοφροσύνην θαμβηθεὶς ἐπὶ τῷ πράγματι ἤρξατο δια- κωλύειν αὐτὸν λέγων, καθὼς ἀρτίως ἠκούσατε, „ἐγὼ χρείαν ἔχω ὑπὸ σοῦ βαπτισθῆναι, καὶ σὺ ἔρχῃ πρὸς μέ;“ τί ποιεῖς, ὦ δέσποτα; ἀκα- νόνιστα δογματίζεις. ἄλλα κατήγγειλα καὶ ἄλλα μετέρχῃ. ἄλλα ἤκουσεν ὁ διάβολος καὶ ἄλλα κατανοεῖ. βάπτισόν με τῷ πυρὶ τῆς θεότητος· τί περιμένεις τὸ ὕδωρ; φώτισον τῷ πνεύματι· τί προσανέχεις τῷ κτίσματι; βάπτισόν με τὸν βαπτιστήν, ἵνα γνωσθῇ σου ἡ ὑπεροχή. ἐγώ, δέσποτα, μετανοίας βαπτίζω βάπτισμα καὶ τοὺς προσερχομένους πρὸς μὲ ἀμήχανον βαπτίσαι, ἐὰν μὴ τὰς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν ἐξομολογή- σωνται.…","divisions":[{"label":"4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2115.tlg026.local001/#tlg2115-tlg026-local001-4"},{"label":"5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2115.tlg026.local001/#tlg2115-tlg026-local001-5"},{"label":"6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2115.tlg026.local001/#tlg2115-tlg026-local001-6"},{"label":"7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2115.tlg026.local001/#tlg2115-tlg026-local001-7"},{"label":"8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2115.tlg026.local001/#tlg2115-tlg026-local001-8"},{"label":"9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2115.tlg026.local001/#tlg2115-tlg026-local001-9"},{"label":"10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2115.tlg026.local001/#tlg2115-tlg026-local001-10"},{"label":"Section 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2115.tlg026.local001/#tlg2115-tlg026-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2115.tlg026.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2115.tlg026.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2115/tlg026/local001.json.gz"}}