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Another Secundinus of Carpis 1 said: "Are heretics Christians or not? If they are Christians, why are they not in the Church of God? If they are not Christians, let them be made so. 2 Else what will be the reference in the discourse of the Lord, in which He says, He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad?' 3 Whence it is clear that on strange children and the offspring of Antichrist the Holy Spirit cannot descend by the laying on of hands alone, since it is clear that heretics have not baptism." 4
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Carpis (Carpos) was in ecclesiastical province of Zeugitana. See for Secundinus, note on chap. 18. ↩
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Fiant. Another reading in some Mss. of Cyprian (not found in those of Augustin) is, "quomodo Christianos faciunt," which is less in harmony with the context. ↩
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Matt. xii. 30. ↩
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Conc. Carth. sec. 24. ↩
