Works Augustine of Hippo (354-430) The Seven Books of Augustin, Bishop of Hippo On Baptism, Against the Donatists
Book VI.
Chapter 37.

71.

Libosus of Vaga 1 said: "The Lord says in the gospel, I am the truth;' 2 He did not say, I am custom. Therefore, when the truth is made manifest, let custom yield to truth; so that, if even in time past any one did not baptize heretics in the Church, he may now begin to baptize them." 3

  1. Vaga was in ecclesiastical province of Byzacium. The name of a Libosus occurs in Cypr. Ep. lxvii. ↩

  2. John xiv. 6. ↩

  3. Conc. Carth. sec. 30. ↩

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