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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.

Our conclusion, that in the Gentile Church (we have no information about the Jewish Christian Church) children born in the fellowship were baptized as early as the first century, receives confirmation from different sides. 1. We hear in the history of the early Church nothing about two kinds of Christians, baptized and unbaptized;1 had baptism been withheld from children born to Christian parents, then there would very soon have grown up a mixed crowd of baptized
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