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The Holy Spirit

Spirit and Baptism

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Spirit with initiation into new life.

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The Didache Teaches: Triune baptism

fl. c. 100 AD · Didache 7

Concerning baptism, baptize in this way: after you have said all these things, baptize into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit using living water. If you do not have living water, use other water; if you cannot baptize in cold water, use warm water.

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Περὶ δὲ τοῦ βαπτίσματος, οὕτω βαπτίσατε: ταῦτα πάντα προειπόντες, βαπτίσατε εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος ἐν ὕδατι ζῶντι. ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἔχῃς ὕδωρ ζῶν, εἰς ἄλλο ὕδωρ βάπτισον: εἰ δ’ οὐ δύνασαι ἐν ψυχρῷ, ἐν θερμῷ.

Barnabas Teaches: Water regenerates

fl. c. 100 AD · Epistle of Barnabas 11

Concerning the water, Scripture addresses Israel: the baptism that brings forgiveness of sins will not be accepted, yet they will build for themselves.

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Ζητήσωμεν δέ, εἰ ἐμέλησεν τῷ κυρίῳ προφανερῶσαι περὶ τοῦ ὕδατος καὶ περὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ. περὶ μὲν τοῦ ὕδατος γέγραπται ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰσραήλ, πῶς τὸ βάπτισμα τὸ φέρον ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν οὐ μὴ προσδέξονται, ἀλλ’ ἑαυτοῖς οἰκοδομήσουσιν.

Justin Martyr Teaches: Water regenerates

c. 100–c. 165 AD · First Apology 61

I will also relate the manner in which we dedicated ourselves to God when we had been made new through Christ; lest, if we omit this, we seem to be unfair in the explanation we are making.

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Ὃν τρόπον δὲ καὶ ἀνεθήκαμεν ἑαυτοὺς τῷ θεῷ καινοποιηθέντες διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐξηγησόμεθα, ὅπως μὴ τοῦτο παραλιπόντες δόξωμεν πονηρεύειν τι ἐν τῇ ἐξηγήσει.

Clement of Alexandria Teaches: Water regenerates

c. 150–c. 215 AD · The Instructor 6

We have ample means of encountering those who are given to carping. For we are not termed children and infants with reference to the childish and contemptible character of our education, as those who are inflated on account of knowledge have calumniously alleged.

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Tertullian Teaches: Water regenerates

c. 155–c. 220 AD · On Baptism 12

Since the rule states that no one attains salvation without Baptism, grounded on the Lord's own pronouncement — "Unless someone is born of water, he will not have life" (John 3:5) — certain people raise scrupulous, or rather reckless, objections: how can this rule apply to the Apostles, whom we do not find baptized in…

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Tertullian Rejects: Faith without water

c. 155–c. 220 AD · On Baptism 13

They claim baptism isn't necessary for people who have faith, since Abraham pleased God through the sacrament of faith alone, without any water at all. But they're arguing backward: in every case, what comes later decides the matter, and the subsequent overrides the prior.

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Tertullian Teaches: Spirit with water

c. 155–c. 220 AD · On Baptism 4

I've said enough on the points where the logic of Baptism first surfaces—points that already foreshadowed, by the mere fact of the Spirit's presence, how the Spirit of God, who hovered over the waters at creation, would one day reform those who are dipped.

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Tertullian Teaches: Spirit with water

c. 155–c. 220 AD · On Baptism 8

Over the waters of baptism, recognising as it were His primeval seat, He reposes: (He who) glided down on the Lord in the shape of a dove, in order that the nature of the Holy Spirit might be declared by means of the creature (the emblem) of simplicity and innocence, because even in her bodily structure the dove is…

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