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Eusebius of Caesarea, NPNF II.1

Book 7, Cyprian, and the Bishops with Him, First Taught that It Was Necessary to Purify…

First of all, Cyprian, pastor of the parish of Carthage,1 maintained that they should not be received except they had been purified from their error by baptism. But Stephen considering it unnecessary to add any innovation contrary to the tradition which had been held from the beginning, was very indignant at this.2

Notes

  1. From 247 or 248 to 258, when he suffered martyrdom.
  2. See the previous chapter, note 3.

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