Orthodox Study
Various Church Fathers

Chapter 30

Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy. — translated by ANF/NPNF editors

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Chapter 30.—58.  Another Julianus of Marcelliana said:  "If a man can serve two masters, God and mammon, then baptism also can serve two, the Christian and the heretic."

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59.  Truly, if it can serve the self-restrained and the covetous man, the sober and the drunken, the well-affectioned and the murderer, why should it not also serve the Christian and the heretic?—whom, indeed, it does not really serve; but it ministers to them, and is administered by them, for salvation to those who use it right, and for judgment to such as use it wrong.

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