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Anti-Donatist WritingsOn Baptism, Against the Donatists

Chapter 29

Anti-Donatist Writings · Saint Augustine of Hippo

Chapter 29.—56. Quintus of Aggya said: "He who has a thing can give it; but what can the heretics give, who are well known to have nothing?"

Donat 1.188.1

57. To him our answer is: If, then, any man can give a thing who has it, it is clear that heretics can give baptism: for when they separate from the Church, they have still the sacrament of washing which they had received while in the Church; for when they return they do not again receive it, because they had not lost it when they withdrew from the Church.

Donat 1.188.2