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This work by Joachim Jeremias is a profound study of infant baptism in the early church by one of the twentieth century’s leading New Testament scholars. In a concrete, accessible manner, Jeremias lays out the first four centuries of historical material on infant baptism.

Πιστὸς ἐκ πις τῶν Ζώσιμος ἐνθάδε κεῖμε ζήσας ἔτεσιν βʹ μη(νὶ) αʹ ἡμέ(ραις) κεʹ1 I, Zosimus, a believer from believers, lie here having lived 2 years, 1 month, 25 days. Tombstone inscription of the child Zosimus The other inscription which gives information about the religious status of the parents is the following metrical Greek inscription of three boys of twelve years old, who are described as πιστοὶ γενετῇ; it comes perhaps also from the third century:2 Ἀλκινόων δύο σῆμα
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