Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

But that the apostle did know Him as one, both who was born and who suffered, namely Christ Jesus, he again says in the same Epistle: "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized in Christ Jesus were baptized in His death? that like as Christ rose from the dead, so should we also walk in newness of life."[300]

Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

ward of such a discipline were not also within its reach; nor could even baptism be properly ordered for the flesh, if by its regeneration a course were not inaugurated tending to its restitution; the apostle himself suggesting this idea: "Know ye not, that so many of us as are baptized into Jesus Christ, are baptized into His death? We are therefore buried with Him by baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised up from the dead, even so we also should walk in newness of life."[328]

Tertullian On Repentance

of bestowing even on the unworthy, what He has engaged (to give); and they turn His liberality into slavery. But if it is of necessity that God grants us the symbol of death,[54]

Tertullian On Monogamy

you have your norm; if you have passed over "into Christ,"[119]

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book III

This baptism, therefore, is given into the death of Jesus:[55]

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V

and so are owned to be heirs of His kingdom. For since ye have "been baptized into the Lord's death,"[135]

Of the Journeyings of Philip the Apostle

Nicanora having thus spoken, the Apostle Philip, along with Bartholomew and Mariamme and those with them, prayed for her to God, saying: Thou who bringest the dead to life, Christ Jesus the Lord, who hast freed us through baptism from the slavery of death,[9]

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