21 January 2025
How great is the grace in water, where God and His anointed are present,
for the ratification of Baptism! Christ is never apart from water: for even He
Himself is baptized with water; when invited to a wedding He inaugurates with
water the earliest trials of His power; when He speaks he invites them
"that thirst" to His "everlasting water "; when He teaches
about love, He commends the offering of "a cup of water" to a
destitute person among the works of love; at a well He recovers His strength,
"on water He walks," He crosses the water with delight, with water He
serves His disciples. The evidence of Baptism continues right to the time of
His passion; when He is given over to the cross, water interposes; Pilate's
hands know this; when He is wounded, water breaks forth from His side; the
soldier's spear knows it.
Tertullian
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