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The first volume of the Fathers of the Church series presents the Apostolic Fathers translated into English with introductions setting the background for each writing and the history of its manuscripts. The Apostolic Fathers includes the writings of St. Clement of Rome, St. Ignatius Antioch, St. Polycarp, the Didache, the Letter of Barnabas, the Shepherd of Hermas, the Letter to Diognetus, and...

1 Regarding baptism, baptize thus. After giving the foregoing instructions,1 ‘Baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit’2 in running water.3 2 But if you have no running water, baptize in any other;4 and, if you cannot in cold water, then in warm.5 3 But, if the one is lacking, pour the other three times on the head6 ‘in the name of the Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit.’ 4 But, before the baptism, let the one who baptizes and the one to be baptized fast,
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