Chapter 7.—10. Zosimus also of Tharassa said: "When a revelation of the truth has been made, error must give way to truth; for even Peter, who at the first circumcised, afterwards gave way to Paul when he declared the truth."1275
He indeed chose to say error, not
custom; but in saying "for even Peter, who at the first circumcised, afterwards gave way to
Paul when he declared the
truth," he shows plainly enough that there was a
custom also on the subject of
baptism at variance with his views. At the same time, also, he
warns us that it was not
impossible that Cyprian might have held an opinion about
baptism at variance with that required by the
truth, as held by the Church both before and after
him, if even Peter could hold a view at variance with the truth as taught us by the Apostle Paul.
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