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Chapter 21

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Chapter 21.—40.  Julianus of Telepte1817 said:  "It is written, ‘A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven;’1818 if heresy is from heaven, it can give baptism."1819

41.  Let him hear another also saying:  If covetousness is from heaven, it can give baptism.  And yet the covetous do confer it; so therefore also may the heretics.

Footnotes

  1. 1817

    Telepte (Thelepte) or Thala, was in ecclesiastical province of Byzacium.

  2. 1818

    John iii. 27.

  3. 1819

    Conc. Carth. sec. 57.