NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

Luke 12:50

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I

And to this He refers when He says, "And I have another baptism to be baptized with, and I hasten eagerly towards it."[269]

Tertullian On Baptism

, to wit; concerning which the Lord said, "I have to be baptized with a baptism,"[159]

Tertullian Of Patience

unto the occasion of the second baptism,[153]

Tertullian On Modesty

In the act, however, of urgently entreating from a martyr pardon for adulterers and fornicators, you yourself confess that crimes of that nature are not to be washed away except by the martyrdom of the criminal himself, while you presume (they can be washed away) by another's If this is so, then martyrdom will be another baptism. For "I have withal," saith He, "another baptism."[296]

Cyprian Epistle LXXII

heretics, know therefore, first, that those catechumens hold the sound faith and truth of the Church, and advance from the divine camp to do battle with the devil, with a full and sincere acknowledgment of God the Father, and of Christ, and of the Holy Ghost; then, that they certainly are not deprived of the sacrament of baptism who are baptized with the most glorious and greatest baptism of blood, concerning which the Lord also said, that He had "another baptism to be baptized with."[34]

A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer

And even to this point the whole of that heretical baptism may be amended, after the intervention of some space of time, if a man should survive and amend his faith, as our God, in the Gospel according to Luke, spoke to His disciples, saying, "But I have another baptism to be baptized with."[43]

Origen Commentary on John Book VI "Except ye drink My blood, ye have no life in you," and as in His character as food He is variously conceived as living bread or as flesh, so also He, the same person, is baptism of water, and baptism of Holy Spirit and of fire, and to some, also, of blood. It is of His last baptism, as some hold, that He speaks in the words,[126]

Origen Commentary on John Book VI

For when He had taken up our infirmities and carried our diseases, and had borne the sin of the whole world, and had conferred blessings on so many, then, perhaps, He received that baptism which is greater than any that could ever be conceived among men, and of which I think He speaks when He says,[173]

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