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1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

It was from this circumstance that the apostle said, that when either of the parents was sanctified, the children were holy; and this as much by the prerogative of the (Christian) seed as by the discipline of the institution (by baptism, and Christian education). "Else "says he, "were the children unclean "by birth:. By the faith in (the state of) Gentile marriage are not defiled (thereby) for this reason, that, together with themselves, others

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