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Is the following quote of Commodian (~240) supportive of infant baptism?
i’m not sure and I cant find an example of its use in support of paedo baptism.
does anyone know of a commentary on it.
ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf04.v.ii.lii.html
*LI.—Of Infants.
The enemy has suddenly come flooding us over with war; and before they could flee, he has seized upon the helpless children. They cannot be reproached, although they are seen to be taken captive; nor, indeed, do I excuse them. Perhaps they have deserved it on account of the faults of their parents; therefore God has given them up. However, I exhort the adults that they run to arms, and that they should be born again, as it were, to their Mother from the womb. Let them avoid a law that is terrible, and always bloody, impious, intractable, living with the life of the beasts; for when another war by chance should be to be waged, he who should be able to conquer or even rightly to know how to beware.*
i’m not sure and I cant find an example of its use in support of paedo baptism.
does anyone know of a commentary on it.
ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf04.v.ii.lii.html
*LI.—Of Infants.
The enemy has suddenly come flooding us over with war; and before they could flee, he has seized upon the helpless children. They cannot be reproached, although they are seen to be taken captive; nor, indeed, do I excuse them. Perhaps they have deserved it on account of the faults of their parents; therefore God has given them up. However, I exhort the adults that they run to arms, and that they should be born again, as it were, to their Mother from the womb. Let them avoid a law that is terrible, and always bloody, impious, intractable, living with the life of the beasts; for when another war by chance should be to be waged, he who should be able to conquer or even rightly to know how to beware.*
