Origin And Development of the Nicene Theology With Some Reference to the Ritsc
Origin And Development of the Nicene Theology With Some Reference to the Ritsc
Hugh M Hugh Mcdonald Scott
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Vi. ). The body was identified with the soul so as to be defiled by it; hence, both forming one personality, both were Legalism^ Sacerdotalism^ Asceticism. 199 tism bears remission of sins" (xi. 1). Hermas says of converts: " They go down into the water dead, and come up alive" (Sim. Ix. 16, 2).^ Others speak in the same way, teaching essentially baptismal regenera- tion. All past sins were washed away; the grace of God was full and free in this ordinance; and man be- came a new creature. Hence...forth he must lead a life of virtue, and merit the approval of his Lord. guilty, and the holy washing of the one could effect the sancti- fication of the othei'. Cyprian introduced the priest as the agent in sanctifying the water of baptism (-Ep. Ixxii). Thus the body and soul were so identified that purifying one cleansed the other; and the Holy Spirit and the water were so identified that wash- ing with the one conveyed regeneration by the other (cf. Ire- naeus, III, lYf. ; V, 15, 3; Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech.
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