Of the Second Baptism--With Blood.

Chapter XVI.—Of the Second Baptism—With Blood.

We have indeed, likewise, a second font, ⁸⁶⁹⁹ (itself withal one with the former,) of blood, to wit; concerning which the Lord said, “I have to be baptized with a baptism,” ⁸⁷⁰⁰ when He had been baptized already. For He had come “by means of water and blood,” ⁸⁷⁰¹ just as John has written; that He might be baptized by the water, glorified by the blood; to make us, in like manner, called by water, chosen ⁸⁷⁰² by blood. These two baptisms He sent out from the wound in His pierced side, ⁸⁷⁰³ in order that they who believed in His blood might be bathed with the water; they who had been bathed in the water might likewise drink the blood. ⁸⁷⁰⁴ This is the baptism which both stands in lieu of the fontal bathing ⁸⁷⁰⁵ when that has not been received, and restores it when lost.

Footnotes

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Lavacrum. [See Aquinas, Quæst. lxvi. 11.]

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Luke xii. 50, not given in full.

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1 John v. 6.

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Matt. 20:16, Rev. 17:14.

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John xix. 34. See c. ix. ad fin.

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See John vi. 53, etc.

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Lavacrum. [The three baptisms: fluminis, flaminis, sanguinis.]