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Du baptême contre les Donatistes

49.

« Que celui qui accorde aux hérétiques le pouvoir de baptiser, nous dise d’abord quel est l’auteur des hérésies. Car si l’hérésie vient de Dieu, elle peut être l’objet de l’indulgence divine; mais si elle ne vient pas de Dieu, comment peut-elle avoir ou conférer la grâce de Dieu? »

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

49.

Privatianus of Sufetula 1 said: "He who says that heretics have the power of baptizing should first say who it was that founded heresy. For if heresy is of God, it may have the divine favor; but if it be not of God, how can it either have or confer on any one the grace of God?" 2


  1. Sufetula was a town in ecclesiastical province of Byzacene, twenty-five miles from Sufes (same province), of which the name is a diminutive. Bp. Privatianus is mentioned in Cypr. Epp. lvi., lvii. ↩

  2. Conc. Carth. sec. 19. ↩

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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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