Else what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
But we will not be wanting (in some defence of the doctrine) even here, in consideration of such persons as are ignorant of that little treatise. "What "asks he, "shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not? "