Some persons associate the two
robbers crucified with the Lord with two kinds of baptized persons. For all
of us, who have been baptized in Christ Jesus, were baptized in his death.
Indeed, both were crucified alike, but one became a worse blasphemer on the
cross; the other became a martyr by confession. For some are crowned by the
baptism with which we as sinners are cleansed, when they praise with faith,
hope, and love the God who suffered in the flesh; others, as long as they
refuse to have either faith or the works of baptism, are deprived of the gift
that they received. (Bede, Commentary on the Gospel of Luke [trans.
Calvin B. Kendall and Faith Wallis; Translated Texts for Historians 85; Liverpool:
Liverpool University Press, 2025], 624)
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