Fragments From The Lost Writings Of Irenaeus by Irenæus
Fragment XXXIV. |And dipped himself,| says the Scripture., |seven times in Jordan.à
|And dipped himself,| says [the Scripture], |seven times in Jordan.| It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon his being baptized, but [it served] as an indication to us. For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean, by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord, from our old transgressions; being spiritually regenerated as new-born babes, even as the Lord has declared: |Except a man be born again through water and the Spirit, he shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.|
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