The Baptismal Formula: Difference between revisions

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    ===Tertullian===
    ===Tertullian===


    "After his resurrection he promises in a pledge to his disciples that he will send them the promise of his Father; and lastly, he commands them to baptize into the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, not into a unipersonal God. And indeed it is not once only, but three times, that we are immersed into the three persons, at each several mention of their names" (Against Praxeas 26 - A.D. 216).  
    ''After his resurrection he promises in a pledge to his disciples that he will send them the promise of his Father; and lastly, he commands them to '''baptize into the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost''', not into a unipersonal God. And indeed it is not once only, but three times, that we are immersed into the three persons, at each several mention of their names" (Against Praxeas 26 - A.D. 216).


    ===Origen===
    ===Origen===