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Secundinus of Cedias 1 said: "Since our Lord Christ said, He that is not with me is against me,' 2 and the Apostle John declares those who go out from the Church to be antichrists, 3 without all doubt the enemies of Christ, and those who are called antichrists, cannot minister the grace of the baptism which gives salvation; and therefore my judgment is that those who take refuge in the Church from the snares of heresy should be baptized by us, who of His condescension are called the friends of God." 4
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Cedias (Cedia) has been identified, but without sufficient reason, with Quidias, or Quiza, in Mauritania Caesariensis for both places have bishops at the Collation of 411. A Bp. Secundinus is mentioned in Cypr. Epp. lvii., lxvii., but whether these refer to him of Cedias or him of Carpos (ch. 31) cannot be decided. ↩
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Matt. xii. 30. ↩
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1 John ii. 18. ↩
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Conc. Carth. sec. 11. ↩
