§53marcellus a Zama dixit:
Cum peccata non nisi in ecclesiae baptismo remittantur, qui haereticum non baptizat peccatori communicat. §54Irenaeus ab Vlulis dixit:
Si ideo ecclesia haereticum non baptizat, quod dicatur iam baptizatus esse, haeresis maior est. §55Donatus a Cibaliana dixit:
Ego unam ecclesiam et unum baptismum eius noui.
Marcellus of Zama said: "Since sins are not remitted except in the baptism of the church, he who does not baptize a heretic communicates with a sinner." Irenaeus of Ululi said: "If the church does not baptize a heretic for this reason, that he is said to have already been baptized, the heresy is greater." Donatus of Cibaliana said: "I know one church and one baptism of hers.
si est qui dicat esse aput haereticos baptismi gratiam, ante est ut ostendat et probet esse illic ecclesiam. §56Zosimus a Tharassa dixit:
Reuelatione facta ueritatis cedat error ueritati, quia et Petrus qui prius circumcidebat cessit Paulo ueritatem praedicanti. §57Iulianus a Thelepte dixit:
Scriptum est: nemo potest aliquid accipere, nisi datum fuerit illi de caelo.
If there is anyone who says that the grace of baptism is with heretics, he must first show and prove that the church is there." Zosimus of Tharassa said: "When the revelation of truth has been made, let error yield to truth, because even Peter, who previously circumcised, yielded to Paul preaching the truth." Iulianus of Thelepte said: "It is written: 'No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.' If heresy is from heaven, it can also give baptism." Faustus of Timida Regia said: "Let those who patronize heretics not flatter themselves.
si haeresis de caelo est potest et baptisma dare. §58Faustus a Timida regia dixit:
Non sibi blandiantur qui haereticis patrocinantur. qui pro haereticis ecclesiastico baptismo intercedit illos christianos et nos haereticos facit. §59Geminius a Furnis dixit:
Quidam de collegis haereticos praeponere sibi possunt, nobis non possunt.
He who, on behalf of heretics, intercedes against the baptism of the church makes them Christians and us heretics." Geminius of Furni said: "Some of our colleagues may prefer heretics to themselves, but to us they cannot.
et ideo quod semel decreuimus tenemus ut haereticos uenientes baptizemus. §60Rogatianus a Noua dixit:
Ecclesiam Christus instituit, haeresim diabolus.
And therefore, what we have once decreed we hold, that we should baptize heretics who come to us." Rogatianus of Nova said: "Christ instituted the church, the devil heresy.
quomodo potest habere baptismum Christi synagoga Satanae? §61Therapius a Bulla dixit:
Qui haereticis ecclesiae baptismum concedit et prodit quid aliud quam sponsae Christi ludas extitit? §62Item alius Lucius a Membresa dixit:
Scriptum est: Deus peccatorem non audit. haereticus qui peccator est quomodo audiri in baptismo potest? §63Item alius Felix a Buslacenis dixit:
In haereticis sine ecclesiae baptismo admittendis nemo consuetudinem rationi et ueritati praeponat, quia consuetudinem ratio et ueritas semper excludit. §64Alius Saturninus ab Auitinis dixit:
Si potest antichristus dare alicui gratiam Christi, possunt et haeretici baptizare qui appellati sunt antichristi.
How can the synagogue of Satan have the baptism of Christ?" Therapius of Bulla said: "He who concedes and betrays the baptism of the church to heretics, what else has he stood forth as but a Judas to the bride of Christ?" Another Lucius of Membresa said: "It is written: 'God does not hear a sinner.' A heretic who is a sinner, how can he be heard in baptism?" Another Felix of Buslaceni said: "In admitting heretics without the baptism of the church, let no one prefer custom to reason and truth, because reason and truth always exclude custom." Another Saturninus of Avitinae said: "If the antichrist can give the grace of Christ to anyone, heretics also can baptize, who have been called antichrists." Quintus of Aggya said: "He can give something who has something.
§65Quintus ab Aggya dixit:
Ille potest dare aliquid qui aliquid habet. haeretici autem quid possunt dare, quos constat nihil habere? §66Alius Iulianus a Marcelliana dixit:
Si potest homo duobus dominis seruire, Deo et mamonae, potest et baptisma duobus seruire, christiano et haeretico. §67Tenax ab Horreis Caeliae dixit:
Scriptum est quia Deus unus et Christus unus et ecclesia una et baptisma unum.
But what can heretics give, who, it is established, have nothing?" Another Iulianus of Marcelliana said: "If a man can serve two masters, God and mammon, baptism also can serve two, a Christian and a heretic." Tenax of Horrea Caeliae said: "It is written that there is one God, and one Christ, and one church, and one baptism.
quomodo illic baptizari aliquis potest, ubi Deus et Christus et ecclesia non est. # §68alius Victor ab Assuras dixit:
Baptisma unum est, sed et ecclesiae.
How can anyone be baptized there, where God and Christ and the church are not?" Another Victor of Assuras said: "Baptism is one, but also of the church.
ubi ecclesia non est, baptisma illic esse non potest. §69Donatulns a Capse dixit:
Et ego semper hoc sensi, ut haeretici qui nihil foris possunt consequi, quando ad ecclesiam conuertuntur, baptizentur. §70Verulus a Rusiccade dixit:
Homo haereticus dare non potest quod non habet: multo magis schismaticus quod habuit amisit.
Where the church is not, baptism cannot be there." Donatulus of Capsa said: "And I have always felt this, that heretics who can obtain nothing outside, when they are converted to the church, should be baptized." Verulus of Rusiccade said: "A heretical man cannot give what he does not have; much more a schismatic has lost what he had." Pudentianus of Cuicul said: "The novelty of my episcopate has caused me, most beloved brethren, to wait to see what my elders would judge.
§71pudentianus a Cuiculi dixit:
Nouitas episcopatus effecit, fratres dilectissimi, ut sustinerem quid maiores iudicarent. nam haereses nihil habere nec posse manifestum est.
For it is manifest that heresies have nothing and can do nothing.
adque ita si qui ex eis uenerint, baptizare aequissime iudicatum est.
And so, if any come from them, it has been judged most justly that they should be baptized." Petrus of Hippo Diarrhytus said: "Since baptism is one in the catholic church, it is manifest that one cannot be baptized outside the church.
§72Petrus ab Hippone diarrhyto dixit:
Cum baptisma unum sit in catholica ecclesia, manifestum est non posse extra ecclesiam baptizari. et ideo in haeresi intinctos siue in schismate ad ecclesiam uenientes censeo baptizari. oportere.
And therefore I judge that those dipped in heresy or in schism, when they come to the church, ought to be baptized."