Of the Second Baptism—With Blood

We have indeed, likewise, a second font,⁸⁶⁹⁹ (itself withal one with the former,) of blood, to wit; concerning which the Lord said, "I have to be baptized with a baptism,"⁸⁷⁰⁰ when He had been baptized already. For He had come "by means of water and blood,"⁸⁷⁰¹ just as John has written; that He might be baptized by the water, glorified by the blood; to make us, in like manner, called by water, chosen⁸⁷⁰² by blood. These two baptisms He sent out from the wound in His pierced side,⁸⁷⁰³ in order that they who believed in His blood might be bathed with the water; they who had been bathed in the water might likewise drink the blood.⁸⁷⁰⁴ This is the baptism which both stands in lieu of the fontal bathing⁸⁷⁰⁵ when that has not been received, and restores it when lost.