Matthew 3:15

Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans

of God; that He was truly born of a virgin, was baptized by John, in order that all righteousness might be fulfilled[5]

Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans

by the Virgin Mary; was baptized by John, that all righteousness might be fulfilled[10]

Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments

And what saith the Lord to him? "Suffer it to be so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness."[396]

Cyprian Epistle LXXI

t in the warmth of their faith, and believing in the Lord with their whole heart; and when, filled with the Spirit, they blessed God in divers tongues, still none the less the blessed Apostle Peter, mindful of the divine precept and the Gospel, commanded that those same men should be baptized who had already been filled with the Holy Spirit, that nothing might seem to be neglected to the observance by the apostolic instruction in all things of the law of the divine precept and Gospel.[5]

A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer

And their hearts being purified, God bestowed upon them at the same time, in virtue of their faith, remission of sins; so that the subsequent baptism conferred upon them this benefit alone, that they received also the invocation of the name of Jesus Christ, that nothing might appear to be wanting to the integrity of their service and faith.[14]

Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV

away in the spiritual layer not His own sins, for it is evident that He had none, but those of the flesh,[165]