# The Bloody Oppression Of The Believers, Which, It Appears, Occurred In The Time Of The Teacher, Fulgentius, A. D. 498.

498 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: THE BLOODY OPPRESSION OF THE BELIEVERS, WHICH, IT APPEARS, OCCURRED IN THE TIME OF THE TEACHER, FULGENTIUS, A. D. 498.

Source heading; not independently verified

It appears that at this time the persecution and
marytyrization of those who were baptized according
to the ordinance of Christ was still in progress;
of which the godfearing teacher Fulgentius makes
mention to his contemporaries. Bapt. Hist., 2d
part, page 464, num. 12, from D. Vicec., lib. 3, cap.
3, from Fulgentius, lib de fide ad petrum, cap. 30.

“Rest assured of this,” he writes, “and doubt
not that those who, for the name of Christ are baptized
in their blood, without which no man shall
receive eternal life, that is, who has not previously
been converted from his sins through repentance
and faith, and redeemed through the sacrament of
faith and repentance, that is, through baptism.”

When Fulgentius here speaks of those who, for
the name of Christ are baptized in the blood, etc., he
plainly indicates thereby, that blood was shed then
inasmuch as people were baptized with it as it were,
that is, such people as he speaks of further on,
namely, “who are converted through repentance
and faith, and redeemed through the sacrament of
faith and repentance, that is, through baptism,” etc.

However, if to any one the above words of Fulgentius
appear rather too obscure for the purpose in
view, we leave him to the free and unrestrained
enjoyment of his own judgment.

NOTE.—At this time, namely about the close of
this century, those who opposed infant baptism
were so hated by the Roman church, that in a certain
council of Carthage, two persons, whose names
we for certain reasons omit, were condemned, because
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they had denied infant baptism. Bapt. Hist. 2d,
part, page 436, taken from the 9th chapter van de
Doop gebruyken der Roomsche Kerke, fol. 460.

As to the persons themselves that were condemned,
we commit them to God, since our only aim is to
show how exceedingly the aforementioned doctrines
were hated, and those who defended them, oppressed,
yea, condemned at that time. With this we
conclude our account of the martyrs of the fifth
century.





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