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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on His name." Here it is a great thing he has uttered. For he said not, "Be baptized in His name:" but, "calling on the name of Christ." It shows that He is God: since it is not lawful to "call upon" any other, save God. Then he shows also, that he himself was not compelled: for, "I said," says he, "What must I do?" Nothing is left without witness: no; he brings forward the witness of a whole city, seeing they had beheld him led by the hand. …
Cyprian
Since sins are not remitted save in the baptism of the Church, he who admits a heretic to communion without baptism does two things against reason: he does not cleanse the heretics, and he befouls the Christians.
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