Giving thanks unto the Father, who has made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
See, then, how it can come to pass that a man may have the baptism of Christ and still not have the faith or the love of Christ; how it is that he may have the sacrament of holiness and still not be reckoned in the lot of the holy. With regard to the mere sacrament itself, it makes no difference whether someone receives the baptism of Christ where the unity of Christ is not.
