Chapter 7.—12. Lucianus of Rucuma1773
| 1773 Rucuma was in ecclesiastical province of Zeugitana. This Lucianus is probably the same with the one mentioned in Cypr. Epp. lvii., lxx.
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said: "It is written, ‘And
God saw the
light that it was good, and
God divided the
light from the
darkness.’
1774
If
light and
darkness can agree, then can there be something in common between us and
heretics. Therefore I give my
judgment that
heretics should be
baptized."
1775
| 1775 Conc. Carth. sec. 43.
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13. To him the answer is: If light and darkness can agree, then can there be something common between the righteous and unrighteous. Let him therefore declare his judgment that those unrighteous should be baptized afresh whom Cyprian confuted within the Church itself; or let him who can say if those are not unrighteous "who renounce the world in words and not in deeds."
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