Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume IV/Donatist Controversy/On Baptism/Book VII/Chapter 21

by Philip Schaff et al.

Chapter 21.—40.  Julianus of Telepte^[1] said:  "It is written, ‘A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven;’^[2] if heresy is from heaven, it can give baptism."^[3]

41.  Let him hear another also saying:  If covetousness is from heaven, it can give baptism.  And yet the covetous do confer it; so therefore also may the heretics.

Footnotes

1. Telepte (Thelepte) or Thala, was in ecclesiastical province of Byzacium.
2. John iii. 27.
3. Conc. Carth. sec. 57.