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que le baptême ait, dans certains cas, été célébré dans l'église elle-même. Rien n'est venu d'ailleurs, jusqu'ici, autoriser [handwritten: 528] cette hypothèse." I think that in certain instances baptism was held in baths. At least, there [handwritten: is] is no prohibition of baptism elsewhere than in the church before 680. H. Leclercq [handwritten: 529] writes, "on ne connaît pas d'interdiction plus ancienne d' aministrer le baptême dans un édifice non destiné à ce rite"que [handwritten: 530] les canons 31, 56 du concile in Trullo, tenu en 680. [handwritten: Μηδαμῶς ἐν ἐντῇ οἴκῳ, ἐνδον οἴκιας τυγχάνοντι, βαπτίσαι ἐπιτελεῖσθαι, ἀλλ' οἱ μέλλοντες ἀξιοῦσθαι τοῦ ἀχράντου βαπτίσματος, ταῖς καθολικαῖς προσερχέσθωσαν ἐκκλησίαις, κἀκεῖσε τῆς ἁγιωτάτης ταύτης ἀπολαύετωσαν.][handwritten: 531]
Indeed we know of at least one instance when people in large numbers were baptized in a bath. Chrysostom, when Constantinople-whether he was removed from the church by force while administering the rite [handwritten: 532] or was prevented from entering-baptized in a bath. Neither Sozomenus or Palladius who relate this incident remark about the usualness or unusualness of this baptizing in a bath. [handwritten: 534] It is simply accepted as [handwritten: a] fact.
Nor should this use of a bath for baptism [handwritten: surprise] us. Theodoret states that the church gave money to construct baths. [handwritten: 535] If they gave money for construction, one may reasonably assume that they could dictate something
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