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Du baptême contre les Donatistes
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Félix de Migirpa opina en ces termes: « Je pense que le baptême doit être réitéré à quiconque sort de l’hérésie. En effet, c’est en vain qu’il se flatterait d’être déjà baptisé, puisqu’il n’y a de baptême unique et véritable que dans l’Eglise, car il n’y a qu’un seul Seigneur, une seule foi et une seule Eglise, dans laquelle se trouvent le baptême unique, la sainteté et les autres biens spirituels. Tout ce qui s’accomplit hors de l’Eglise n’est d’aucune utilité pour le salut».
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The Seven Books of Augustin, Bishop of Hippo On Baptism, Against the Donatists
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The elder Felix 1 of Migirpa said: "I think that every one coming from heresy should be baptized. For in vain does any one suppose that he has been baptized there, seeing that there is no baptism save the one true baptism in the Church; for there is one Lord, and one faith, and one Church, in which rests the one baptism, and holiness, and the rest. For the things that are practised without have no power to work salvation."
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This section is wanting in the Mss. and in the edition of Amerbach, so that it has been supposed to have been added by Erasmus from Cyprian (Conc. Carth. sec. 2),--the name of Felix (really Primus), which is not found in Cyprian, being derived from the following section of Augustin. So Hartel: Primas a Misgirpa dixit. Migirpa or Misgirpa, was in Zeugitana. This Primus is seemingly identical with the Primus of Cypr. Epp. 67 (following Caecilius), and 70 (preceding Caecilius). ↩