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Anti-Donatist WritingsOn Baptism, Against the Donatists

Chapter 31

Anti-Donatist Writings · Saint Augustine of Hippo

Chapter 31.—60. Tenax of Horrea Celiæ said: "There is one baptism, but of the Church; and where the Church is not, there baptism also cannot be."

Donat 1.190.1

61. To him we answer: How then comes it that it may be where the rock is not, but only sand; seeing that the Church is on the rock, and not on sand?

Donat 1.190.2