Chapter 38

Chapter 38.—73.  Lucius of Thebaste ¹⁷³¹ said:  "I declare my judgment that heretics, and blasphemers, and unrighteous men, who with various words pluck away the sacred and adorable words of the Scriptures, should be held accursed, and therefore exorcised and baptized." ¹⁷³²

74.  I too think that they should be held accursed, but not that therefore they should be exorcised and baptized; for it is their own falsehood which I hold accursed, but Christ’s sacrament which I venerate.

Footnotes

496:1731

Thebaste (Thebeste) in ecclesiastical province of Numidia.  For Lucius, cp. c. 14.

496:1732

Conc. Carth. sec. 31.