1. New Testament, 1 Peter, 3 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
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2. Clement of Alexandria, Christ The Educator, 1.6.32 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
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3. Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, 6.41.4-6.41.5 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
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4. Irenaeus, Refutation of All Heresies, 1.6.4, 4.26.1 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
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5. Irenaeus, Demonstration of The Apostolic Teaching, 41 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
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6. Tertullian, On Baptism, 4, 15 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
| 15. I know not whether any further point is mooted to bring baptism into controversy. Permit me to call to mind what I have omitted above, lest I seem to break off the train of impending thoughts in the middle. There is to us one, and but one, baptism; as well according to the Lord's gospel as according to the apostle's letters, inasmuch as he says, One God, and one baptism, and one church in the heavens. But it must be admitted that the question, What rules are to be observed with regard to heretics? is worthy of being treated. For it is to us that that assertion refers. Heretics, however, have no fellowship in our discipline, whom the mere fact of their excommunication testifies to be outsiders. I am not bound to recognize in them a thing which is enjoined on me, because they and we have not the same God, nor one - that is, the same- Christ. And therefore their baptism is not one with ours either, because it is not the same; a baptism which, since they have it not duly, doubtless they have not at all; nor is that capable of being counted which is not had. Ecclesiastes 1:15 Thus they cannot receive it either, because they have it not. But this point has already received a fuller discussion from us in Greek. We enter, then, the font once: once are sins washed away, because they ought never to be repeated. But the Jewish Israel bathes daily, because he is daily being defiled: and, for fear that defilement should be practised among us also, therefore was the definition touching the one bathing made. Happy water, which once washes away; which does not mock sinners (with vain hopes); which does not, by being infected with the repetition of impurities, again defile them whom it has washed! |
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7. Cyprian, The Dress of Virgins, 23 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
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8. Cyprian, Letters, 75, 73 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
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9. Cyprian, Letters, 73, 75, 70 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
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10. Cyprian, Letters, 73, 75, 70 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
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11. Cyprian, Letters, 73, 75, 70 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
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12. Pseudo Clementine Literature, Recognitions, 1.69 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
| 1.69. To him our James began to show, that whatsoever things the prophets say they have taken from the law, and what they have spoken is in accordance with the law. He also made some statements respecting the books of the Kings, in what way, and when, and by whom they were written, and how they ought to be used. And when he had discussed most fully concerning the law, and had, by a most clear exposition, brought into light whatever things are in it concerning Christ, he showed by most abundant proofs that Jesus is the Christ, and that in Him are fulfilled all the prophecies which related to His humble advent. For he showed that two advents of Him are foretold: one in humiliation, which He has accomplished; the other in glory, which is hoped for to be accomplished, when He shall come to give the kingdom to those who believe in Him, and who observe all things which He has commanded. And when he had plainly taught the people concerning these things, he added this also: That unless a man be baptized in water, in the name of the threefold blessedness, as the true Prophet taught, he can neither receive remission of sins nor enter into the kingdom of heaven; and he declared that this is the prescription of the unbegotten God. To which he added this also: 'Do not think that we speak of two unbegotten Gods, or that one is divided into two, or that the same is made male and female. But we speak of the only-begotten Son of God, not sprung from another source, but ineffably self-originated; and in like manner we speak of the Paraclete.' But when he had spoken some things also concerning baptism, through seven successive days he persuaded all the people and the high priest that they should hasten straightway to receive baptism. |
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