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To Dionysius

Dionysius of Alexandria

Salutation / Introduction

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Author: Dionysius of Alexandria

Epistle VIII.—To Dionysius.

For we rightly repulse

Novatian

,

who

has

rent

the

Church

,

and

has

drawn

away

some

of

the

brethren

to

impiety

and

blasphemies

;

who

has

brought

into

the

world

a

most

impious

doctrine

concerning

God

,

and

calumniates

our

most

merciful

Lord

Jesus

Christ

as

if

He

were

unmerciful

;

and

besides

all

these

things

,

holds

the

sacred

laver

as

of

no

effect

,

and

rejects

it

,

and

overturns

faith

and

confession

,

which

are

put

before

baptism

,

and

utterly

drives

away

the

Holy

Spirit

from

them

,

even

if

any

hope

subsists

either

that

He

would

abide

in

them

,

or

that

He

should

return

to

them

.

Notes

1
At that time presbyter of Xystus, and afterwards his successor. He teaches that Novatian is deservedly to be opposed on account of his schism, on account of his impious doctrine, on account of the repetition of baptism to those who came to him.