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Chapter X.—Mattidia Values Baptism Aright.
And I said: “Tell us what it was that
she said which made her faith manifest.” And Peter,
said: “Her request that her hostess and benefactress should
be baptized along with her. For she would not have besought this
to be granted to her whom she loves, had she not herself first felt
that baptism was a great gift. And for this reason I condemn many
that, after being baptized, and asserting that they have faith, they
yet do nothing worthy of faith; nor do they urge those whom they
love—I mean their wives, or sons, or friends—to be
baptized.1169
For if they
had believed that God grants eternal life with good works on the
acceptance of baptism,1170
| 1170 ἐπὶ
τῷ
βαπτίσματι;
lit., “on the condition of baptism.” | they without delay
would urge those whom they loved to be baptized. But some one of
you will say, ‘They do love them, and care for them.’
That is nonsense. For do they not, most assuredly, when they see
them sick, or led away along the road that ends in death, or enduring
any other trial, lament over them and pity them? So, if they
believed that eternal fire awaits those who worship not God, they would
not cease admonishing them, or being in deep distress for them as
unbelievers, if they saw them disobedient, being fully assured that
punishment awaits them. But now I shall send for the hostess, and
question her as to whether she deliberately accepts the law which is
proclaimed through us;1171
| 1171 Lit.,
“the law which is by means of us.” But the
Epitomes, and a various reading in Cotelerius, give “our
law.” | and so, according
to her state of mind, shall we do what ought to be
done.
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