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

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Victor of Gor 1 said: "Seeing that sins are forgiven only in the baptism of the Church, he who admits heretics to communion without baptism is guilty of two errors contrary to reason; for, on the one hand, he does not cleanse the heretics, and, on the other, he defiles the Christians." 2

  1. Gor (Gorduba) is variously supposed to be Garra in ecclesiastical province of Mauritania Caesariensis, or Garriana in ecclesiastical province of Byzacium. The name of a bishop Victor occurs in Cypr. Epp. iv., lvii., lxii., lxvii. In Ep. lxx. the names of three. ↩

  2. Conc. Carth. sec. 40. ↩

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Du baptême contre les Donatistes

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« Puisque les péchés ne sont remis que dans le baptême de l’Eglise, celui qui reçoit un hérétique à la communion de l’Eglise, sans lui conférer le baptême, commet la double faute de ne point le purifier de ses péchés et de souiller les chrétiens ».

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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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