Didache - the baptism passage - authentic and ancient?

Steven Avery

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The procedure for baptizing is as follows. After repeating all that has been said, immerse in running water ‘In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost’. If no running water is available, immerse in ordinary water. This should be cold if possible; otherwise warm. If neither is practicable, then pour water three times on the head ‘In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost’.”

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Will this Critical Greek Edition with footnotes covering textual variants compiled by David Robert Palmer help?

https://bibletranslation.ws/trans/didache.pdf

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1. Περὶ δὲ τοῦ βαπτίσματος, οὕτω βαπτίσατε· ταῦτα πάντα προειπόντες, βαπτίσατε47 εἰς τὸ
ὄνομα τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος ἐν ὕδατι ζῶντι.
2. ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἔχῃς ὕδωρ ζῶν, εἰς ἄλλο ὕδωρ βάπτισον· εἰ δ’ οὐ δύνασαι ἐν ψυχρ , ἐν θερμ .
3. ἐὰν δὲ ἀμφότερα μὴ ἔχῃς, ἔκχεον εἰς τὴν κεφαλὴν τρὶς ὕδωρ εἰς ὄνομα πατρὸς καὶ υἱοῦ καὶ
ἁγίου πνεύματος.
4. πρὸ δὲ τοῦ βαπτίσμος προνηστευσάτω ὁ βαπτίζων καὶ ὁ βαπτιζόμενος48 καὶ εἴ τινες ἄλλοι
δύναται· κελεύεις49 δὲ νηστεῦσαι τὸν βαπτιζόμενον πρὸ μιᾶς ἢ δύο

1. As for the baptism, thus you baptized; all these things being present, you baptized47 in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit in living water. 2. But if you do not have living water, baptize in other water; if you cannot do it in cold, in heat. 3. if you don't have both, pour three waters on the head in the name of father and son and holy spirit. 4. before the baptism, the baptizer and the baptized should fast48 and if there are others it is possible; but you fast 49 the person being baptized before one or two

47 7:1 txt ταῦτα πάντα προειπόντες, βαπτίσατε geo jc BR FB GG HOL MH TK ‖ omit apcon
48 7:4a txt ὁ βαπτιζόμενος jc FB GG HOL MH TK ‖ οἱ βαπτιζόμενοι HG
49 7:4b txt κελεύεις jc FB GG HOL MH TK ‖ κελεύσεις BR HG SB

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