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On Baptism, against the Donatists
Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.4
Tenax of Horrea Celiae said: “There is one baptism, but of the Church; and where the …
Tenax of Horrea Celiae1 said: “There is one baptism, but of the Church; and where the Church is not, there baptism also cannot be.”2
To him we answer: How then comes it that it may be where the rock is not, but only sand; seeing that the Church is on the rock, and not on sand?
Notes
- Horrea Celiae (Caeliae) was a village of ecclesiastical province of Byzacium, ten miles north of Hadrumetum. A Tenax is mentioned as bishop in Cypr. Ep. lxvii.
- Conc. Carth. sec. 67.