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Since its rediscovery in 1873, the Didache has secured its place among the history of the Church Fathers, and in the history of the New Testament canon. It is one of the oldest and most detailed records of the worship and discipline of the Early Church, and it fills the gap between the Apostolic age and the Church of the second century, and sheds light upon questions of doctrine, worship, and...

We confine ourselves here to the history of the mode as connected with our subject. The Didache, the Catacomb pictures, and the teaching of the fathers, Greek and Latin, are in essential harmony on this point, and thus confirm one another. They all bear witness to trine immersion as the rule, and affusion or pouring as the exception. This view is supported by the best scholars, Greek, Latin, and Protestant. Let us hear the standard writers on the subject. We confine ourselves to Pædo-Baptist authorities.
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