DE REBAPTISMATE. - Written around 256-57 against Cyprian in defense of the validity of Baptism conferred by heretics. The author, an African bishop, in defense of the Sacrament, relies on an erroneous distinction between the Baptism of water and a Baptism of the Spirit, the latter linked to the imposition of hands in Confirmation.

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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 Tauflehre des Liber de r., Braunsberg 1907; id., Zeit und Heimat des Liber de r., in Zeitschr. für die neutestamentlichen, Wissenschaft, 8 (1907), pp. 190-220; I. Ernst, Die Tauflehre des Liber de r., in Zeitschrift für Kathol. Theol., 31 (1907), pp. 648-99; id., Zeit und Heimat des Liber de r., in Theol. Quartalsch., 90 (1908), p. 579 ff.; 91 (1909), pp. 20-64; H. Koch, Die Abfassungszeit des Liber de r., in Internat. kirchliche Zeitschr., 14 (1924), pp. 132-49; C. M. Edmans, Le Baptême de feu, Uppsala 1940, p. 142 ff.

Erik Peterson

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