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Translated by Bl. Jackson.
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Page 31
Chapter XII.
Against those who assert that the baptism in the name of the Father alone is sufficient.
28. Let no one be misled by the fact of the apostle's frequently omitting the name of the Father and of the Holy Spirit when making mention of baptism, or on this account imagine that the invocation of the names is not observed. "As many of you," he says, "as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ;" [944] and again, "As many of you as were baptized into Christ were baptized into his death." [945] For the naming of Christ is the confession of the whole, [946] shewing forth as it does the God who gave, the Son who received, and the Spirit who is, the unction. [947] So we have learned from Peter, in the Acts, of "Jesus of Nazareth whom God anointed with the Holy Ghost;" [948] and in Isaiah, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me;" [949] and the Psalmist, "Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." [950] Scripture, however, in the case of baptism, sometimes plainly mentions the Spirit alone. [951]
[944] Gal. iii. 27, R.V.
[945] Rom. vi. 3, with change to 2d person.
[946] cf. note on p. 17.
[947] "he tou Christou prosegoria ...deloi ton te Chrisanta Theon kai ton Christhenta Hui& 232;n kai to Chrisma to Pneuma."
[948] Acts x. 38.
[949] Is. lx. 1.
[950] Ps. xlv. 7.
[951] No subject occurs in the original, but "Scripture" seems better than "the Apostle" of the Bened. Tr. "Videtur fecisse mentionem," moreover, is not the Latin for phainetai mnemoneusas, but for phainetai mnemoneusai.
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