Saint Augustine



Of Baptism

Book VII
Chapter 30




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Saint Augustine (354-430)

Of Baptism

Translated by J. R. King

Book VII

Chapter 30


Another Julianus of Marcelliana said: “If a man can serve two masters, God and mammon, then baptism also can serve two, the Christian and the heretic.”

Truly, if it can serve the self-restrained and the covetous man, the sober and the drunken, the well-affectioned and the murderer, why should it not also serve the Christian and the heretic?—whom, indeed, it does not really serve; but it ministers to them, and is administered by them, for salvation to those who use it right, and for judgment to such as use it wrong.





Book VII
Chapter 29


Book VII
Chapter 31