Philip Schaff

“ For there is there something that is merciful from the beginning, borne upon the water, and rescues from the future punishment those who are baptized with the thrice blessed invocation, offering as gifts to God the good deeds of the baptized whenever they are done after their baptism. Wherefore flee to the waters, for this alone can quench the violence of fires. [2] He who will not now come to it still bears the spirit of strife, on account of which he will not approach the living water for his own salvation. ”