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Du baptême contre les Donatistes

46.

« Autant l’eau sanctifiée dans l’Eglise par la prière du prêtre a d’efficacité pour effacer les péchés, autant cette même eau souillée par la parole de l’hérétique, comme par un cancer, a la vertu de multiplier les péchés. Voilà pourquoi nous devons déployer pacifiquement toutes nos forces, pour empêcher qu’un hérétique ne s’aveugle au point de refuser le seul véritable baptême sans lequel il est impossible à qui que ce soit de parvenir au bonheur du ciel ».

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The Seven Books of Augustin, Bishop of Hippo On Baptism, Against the Donatists

46.

Sedatus of Tuburbo 1 said: "Inasmuch as water, sanctified by the prayer of the priest in the Church, washes away sins, just so much does it multiply sins when infected, as by a cancer, with the words of heretics. Wherefore one must strive, with all such efforts as conduce to peace, that no one who has been infected and tainted by heretical error should refuse to receive the one true baptism, with which whosoever is not baptized shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven." 2


  1. Tuburbo (Thuburbo) was in the ecclesiastical province of Zeugitana. Sedatus is not unlikely the same as the one mentioned in Cypr. Epp. iv., lxvii., lxx. ↩

  2. Conc. Carth sec. 18. ↩

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Du baptême contre les Donatistes
The Seven Books of Augustin, Bishop of Hippo On Baptism, Against the Donatists

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