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Quietus of Burug 1 said: "We who live by faith ought with believing observance to obey what has been before foretold for our instruction. For it is written in Solomon, He that is washed by one dead, what availeth his washing?' 2 Which assuredly he says of those who are washed by heretics, and of those who wash. For if they who are baptized among them receive eternal life through the remission of their sins, why do they come to the Church? But if no salvation is received from a dead person, and they therefore, acknowledging their former error, return with penance to the truth, they ought to be sanctified with the one life-giving baptism which is in the Catholic Church." 3
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Burug (Buruc) or Burca was in ecclesiastical province of Numidia. Quietus may be identical with the one mentioned in Cypr. Ep. lxvii. ↩
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In the English version this is, "He that washeth himself after touching a dead body, if he touch it again, what availeth his washing?"--Ecclus. xxxiv. 25. ↩
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Conc. Carth. sec. 27. ↩
