Polianus of Mileum Said: "It is Right that a Heretic Should be Baptized...
writings in connection with the donatist controversy. — St. Augustine
-- 34. Polianus of Mileum [1658] said: "It is right that a heretic should be baptized in the holy Church." [1659]

35. Nothing, indeed, could be expressed more shortly. But I think this too is short: It is right that the baptism of Christ should not be depreciated in the Church of Christ.

Footnotes:

[1658] Mileum, Milevis, Mileve, in ecclesiastical province of Numidia, noted as the seat of two Councils 402 A.D. and 416 A.D.; also as the See of Optatus. Polianus is most likely to be identified with the one in Cypr. Epp. lxxvi., lxxix.

[1659] Conc. Cath. sec. 13.

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