Saturday, February 19, 2022

Baptismal Regeneration in the "Life and Martyrdom of Lucian of Antioch"

  

[Simeon]. When he first betook himself to the bath of rebirth and was regenerated by water and of the Spirit, he adopted the solitary life. . . . (Appendix 6: Life and Martyrdom of Lucian of Antioch, in Philostorgius, Church History [trans. Philip R. Amidon; Writings From the Greco-Roman World 23; Atlanta, Ga.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007], 2 [p. 194])