ON THE REBAPTISM. — Written around 256–57 against Cyprian in defence of the validity of Baptism conferred by heretics. The author, an African bishop, in defence of the Sacrament, bases himself on an erroneous distinction between the Baptism of water and a Baptism of the Spirit, the latter being linked to the laying on of hands in Confirmation.
Bibl.: Editions: Cypriani opera, ed. W. Hartel, III, Vienna (1868–71), pp. 69–92; G. Rauschen, in Florilegium patristicum, Bonn 1916. Literature: H. Koch, Die Taufehe des Liber de r., Braunsberg 1907; id., Zeit und Heimat des Liber de r., in Zeitschrift für die neuestamentlichen Wissenschaften, 8 (1907), pp. 190–220; I. Ernst, Die Taufehe des Liber de r., in Zeitschrift für Kathol. Theol., 31 (1907), pp. 648–69; id., Zeit und Heimat des Liber de r., in Theol. Quartalschr., 90 (1908), p. 579 sqq.; 91 (1909), pp. 20–64; H. Koch, Die Abfassungszeit des Liber de r., in Internat. kirchliche Zeitschrift, 14 (1924), pp. 132–149; C. M. Edmunds, Le Baptême de feu, Uppsala 1940, p. 142 sqq.