INFANT BAPTISM
IS NO BAPTISM. BALTHASAR HUBMAIER:
The first error, O Christian reader, which you recognize here, is that hitherto
all of us in all of Europe … have missed the path of truth most crude, in that
we have baptized children, although it was no baptism, since they did not yet
know what God, Christ, baptism, faith, or vow is. But so it is; the great, red,
seven-headed, ten-horned dragon stands unceasingly before the pregnant woman,
who is in travail of childbirth, waiting, when she gives birth, hastily to
swallow up the infant. But if he is not able to succeed in this, then the
serpent shoots a torrent of water from its mouth at the woman to devour her. A
FORM FOR WATER BAPTISM. (Revelation, ed. Rodney Petersen,
Gerald L. Bray, and Timothy George [Reformation Commentary on Scripture 15;
Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, 2025], 69)
