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Introductory Essay on the Manichæan Heresy, By Albert H. Newman, D.D., LL.D · Book IV. In Which He Treats of What Follows in the Same Epistle of Cyprian to Jubaianus · Chapter 24

46. Rogatianus of Nova said: "Christ established the Church, the devil heresy: how can the synagogue of Satan have the baptism of Christ?"

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47. To him our answer is: Is it true that because Christ established the well-affectioned, and the devil the envious, therefore the party of the devil, which is proved to be among the envious, cannot have the baptism of Christ?

Notes

  1. 1825

    Nova was in ecclesiastical province of Mauritania Cæsariensis. For Rogatianus as bishop, see Cypr. Epp. lvii., lxvii., lxx., bis.

  2. 1826

    Conc. Carth. sec. 60.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Volume 4, ed. Philip Schaff (1886–89). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.