-- 19. But which is the worse, not to be baptized at all, or to be twice baptized, it is difficult to decide. I see, indeed, which is more repugnant and abhorrent to men's feelings; but when I have recourse to that divine balance, in which the weight of

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Footnotes:

[1261] John 13:10. "Qui lotus est, non habet necessitatem iterum lavandi." The Latin, with the A.V., loses the distinction between ho leloumenos, "he that has bathed," and niptein, "to wash:" and further wrongfully introduces the idea of repetition.

[1262] John 3:5.