Various Church Fathers
Chapter 42
Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy. — translated by ANF/NPNF editors
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Chapter 42.—81. Adelphius of Thasbalte said: "It is surely without cause that they find fault with the truth in false and invidious terms, saying that we rebaptize, since the Church does not rebaptize heretics, but baptizes them."
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82. Truly enough it does not rebaptize them, because it only baptizes those who were not baptized before; and this earlier custom has only been confirmed in a later Council by a more careful perfecting of the truth.
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