The Enchiridion 43

St Augustine of Hippo (AD 354–430) · De fide spe et charitate · PL 40, 230–290

43 Baptism and the Grace Which It Typifies are Open to All, Both Infants and Adults PL 40, 253

For from the infant newly born to the old man bent with age, as there is none shut out from baptism, so there is none who in baptism does not die to sin. But infants die only to original sin; those who are older die also to all the sins which their evil lives have added to the sin which they brought with them.

In Baptismo omnes peccato mori, et parvulos, et majores. A parvulo enim recens nato usque ad decrepitum senem, sicut nullus est prohibendus a Baptismo, ita nullus est qui non peccato moriatur in Baptismo: sed parvuli tantum originali, majores autem etiam iis omnibus moriuntur peccatis, quaecumque male vivendo addiderunt ad illud quod nascendo traxerunt.

Philip Schaff (ed.), Buffalo/New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886-1889. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).

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