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On Baptism, against the Donatists

Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.4

Nicomedes of Segermi said: “My judgment is that heretics coming to the Church should be …

Nicomedes of Segermi1 said: “My judgment is that heretics coming to the Church should be baptized, because they can obtain no remission of sins among sinners outside.”2

The answer to which is: The judgment of the whole Catholic Church is that heretics, being already baptized with the baptism of Christ, although in heresy, should not be re-baptized on coming to the Church. For if there is no remission of sins among sinners, neither can sinners within the Church remit sins; and yet those who have been baptized by them are not rebaptized.

Notes

  1. Segermi church province of Byzacium. A Nicomedes occurs in Cypr. Epp. lvii., lxvii., lxx.
  2. Conc. Carth, sec. 9.

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