Saint Augustine



Of Baptism

Book VI
Chapter 38




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Saint Augustine (354-430)

Of Baptism

Translated by J. R. King

Book VI

Chapter 38


Lucius of Thebaste said: “I declare my judgment that heretics, and blasphemers, and unrighteous men, who with various words pluck away the sacred and adorable words of the Scriptures, should be held accursed, and therefore exorcised and baptized.”

I too think that they should be held accursed, but not that therefore they should be exorcised and baptized; for it is their own falsehood which I hold accursed, but Christ’s sacrament which I venerate.





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Chapter 39