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On Baptism, against the Donatists
Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.4
Also another Lucius of Membresa said: “It is written, ‘God heareth not sinners.’ How can …
Also another Lucius of Membresa1 said: “It is written, ‘God heareth not sinners.’2 How can he who is a sinner be heard in baptism?”3
We answer: How is the covetous man beard, or the robber, and usurer, and murderer? Are they not sinners? And yet Cyprian, while he finds fault with them in the Catholic Church, yet tolerates them.
Notes
- Membresa was in ecclesiastical province of Zeugitana. For Lucius, See, Bk. VI. c. 38.
- John ix. 31.
- Conc. Carth. sec. 62.