{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050825.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050825.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050825.htm","text":"Chapter 26 [XIII.]\u2014The Seventh Calumny,\u2014That Augustin Asserts that in Baptism All Sins are Not Remitted.\n\u201cThey also say,\u201d says he, \u201cthat baptism does not give complete remission of sins, nor take away crimes, but that it shaves them off, so that the roots of all sins are retained in the evil flesh.\u201d Who but an unbeliever can affirm this against the Pelagians? I say, therefore, that baptism gives remission of all sins, and takes away guilt, and does not shave them off; and \u201cthat the roots of all sins are\u201d not \u201cretained in the evil flesh, as if of shaved hair on the head, whence the sins may grow to be cut down again.\u201d For it was I that found out that similitude, too, for them to use for the purposes of their calumny, as if I thought and said this.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise Agains...","type":"page"}