Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 12 — II. Baptism is to be administered at Easter-tide and not on the Epiphany.
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 12
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Accordingly when it reached my ears on reliable testimony (and I already felt a brother's affectionate anxiety about your acts, beloved) that in what is one of the chief sacraments of the Church you depart from the practice of the Apostles' constitution [168] by administering the sacrament of baptism to greater numbers on the feast of the Epiphany than at Easter-tide, I was surprised that you or your predecessors could have introduced so unreasonable an innovation as to confound the mysteries of the two festivals and believe there was no difference between the day on which Christ was w…
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