… in both adults’ and children’s cases for recent proselytes. The authors claim that the Didache (I90-220?) points to immersion as the rule, though it only mentions pouring. Indeed, the Didache rules out customary Baptist baptismal procedure. Justin (100-165) is quoted as defending adult believers’ baptism only, though he does not distinguish between ‘adult’ and  ‘infant’ baptisms, seeing baptism as a continuation of circumcision applied to both adults and children as a …

Tags: A Treatise of Baptism, Adult Baptism, Apostolic Tradition, Baptism, Basil the Great, Colonel Henry D’Anvers, Didache, Hypolytus, Infant Baptism, Justin, Oratio Exhortatoria ad Baptismum, Prof. Hendrick F. Stander, Prof. Johannes P. Louw, Tertullian