# Notice Concerning The Book “QuæStionum Et Responsionum,” That Is, “Questions And Answers,” Which Is Wrongfully Attributed To Justinus. · Page 2 of 2

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It is true, he says soon after this, that those who
are baptized are children, or, at least, ought to be.
But what kind of children? Not children in understanding,
not infants in the cradle, but, as he
further says, Children in wickedness, but perfect in
the understanding. Children, who, as children of
God, have put off the old man, and the garment of
wickedness, and have put on the incorruptibility of
Christ, in order that, being regenerated, they may
become a new and holy people, and keep unspotted
the new man. See the treatise cited above.

If at that time it was at all customary in Alexandria
to baptize infants, would it not have been
appropriate here for him, to speak of irrational
infants, or at least to mention with a word or two,
that they, too, were entitled to baptism, although,
on account of their youth, they could not understand
the object of it? Truly, according to our
opinion he could not well have omitted mentioning
it; but, inasmuch as he does not refer to it with a
single word, it is good proof, that at that time this
abuse was not known there, or, at least, not regarded.

Jacob Mehrning says (Baptism. Hist. concerning
the second century, page 213): “Of Clemens Alexandrinus
we read that at Alexandria he presided
over the school in which the catechumens, that is
those who received instruction preparatory to baptism,
were taught the principles of the Christian
faith.” Vicecomes, lib. 2, cap. 7.

From this Pædag., Clementis Alexandrini, lib. 1,
cap. 6, Vicecomes would prove that there was given
to those who were baptized, milk and honey to eat,
and milk mixed with wine, to drink; likewise, that
after baptism, preaching took place and peace was
imparted to those baptized.

As regards the statement, that there was given
to the baptized, as a sign of God’s blessing, milk
and honey to eat, and milk mixed with wine, to
drink, we leave it to its own merits, it being a
matter of small importance, which, if done without
superstition, could either be observed or omitted.
But the preceding statement, that Clemens Alexandrinus
presided over the school in which the
catechumens were taught the principles of the
Christian faith, certainly implies that the candidates
for baptism were first instructed in the school, in
the principles of the Christian faith, before they
were baptized; and also, the final remark, that after
baptism preaching took place, and peace was imparted
to the baptized, certainly also indicates that
those who were baptized were not infants, for then
they could not have understood the preaching,
much less would they have been qualified to receive
with attention and according to the requirements of
Holy Scripture the peace which was imparted to
them.

Note.—Baudartius writes of Clemens Alexandrinus,
that he proclaimed the true religion with
his mouth as well as with his pen, saying among
other things: “A pious and honorable man is well
content with little.” Apophth., edit. 1640, lib. 2,
page 49.



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