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date: 10 February 2025

Baptism 

Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
Author(s):
Robert F. TaftRobert F. Taft

(βάπτισμα, βαπτισμός), the sacrament of initiation into Christian life via ritual lustration in the name of the Trinity for the remission of sin. Baptism performed but once and never repeated was interpreted in the New Testament by metaphors of new beginning, esp. rebirth in the Spirit, dying and rising in Christ, restoration of sight and illumination, and with Old Testament types such as the ... ...

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