Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1742
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
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This, then, is the type of "the law and the prophets which were until John;" [3048] while he, though speaking more perspicuously as no longer prophesying, but pointing out as now present, Him, who was proclaimed symbolically from the beginning, nevertheless said, "I am not worthy to loose the latchet of the Lord's shoe." [3049] For he confesses that he is not worthy to baptize so great a Power; for it behooves those, who purify others, to free the soul from the body and its sins, as the foot from the thong. Perhaps also this signified the final exertion of the Saviour's power toward us…
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