"“Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?” (1 Cor 15:29) ... Will you that I should first mention how they who are infected with the Marcionite heresy pervert this expression? ... When any Catechumen departs among them, having concealed the living man under the couch of the dead, they approach the corpse and talk with him, and ask him if he wishes to receive baptism; then when he makes no answer, he that is concealed underneath says in his stead that of course he should wish to be baptized; and so they baptize him instead of the departed, like men jesting upon the stage."
Baptism

January 1, 1970

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