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Portrait of Philip Schaff Philip Schaff Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Anonymous Treatise on Re-baptism… (1885)

Cyprian, who then ruled the Church of Carthage, was the first who judged that they must not be admitted to communion unless they were first purified from error by baptism. But Stephen, thinking that nothing should be innovated contrary to the tradition which had already obtained in that matter from the beginning, was indignant at this.
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