to ‘Give to those who ask of you’, Luke 6:30.7 It is not difficult to imagine those seeking baptism for their children taunting the clergy with Jesus’ injunction to his disciples to ‘Let the children come unto me’, likening the clergy’s refusal to grant baptism to the disciples’ attempt to prevent the children from coming to Jesus, and castigating their clergy: ‘You refuse to grant our request for our children to be baptized, but Jesus said: “Give to those who ask of you.” ’ Tertullian responds that