On Baptism, Against the Donatists 188Chapter 31

Augustine · The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Series I Volume IV: The Anti-Manichaean Writings, The Anti-Donatist Writings by Philip Schaff

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60. Tenax of Horrea Celiae said: "There is one baptism, but of the Church; and where the Church is not, there baptism also cannot be."

61. To him we answer: How then comes it that it may be where the rock is not, but only sand; seeing that the Church is on the rock, and not on sand?