-- 30. That the place of baptism is sometimes supplied by martyrdom is supported by an argument by no means trivial, which the blessed Cyprian adduces [1459] from the thief, to whom, though he was not baptized, it was yet said, "To-day shall thou be with

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Footnotes:

[1459] Cypr. Ep. 73. 22.

[1460] Luke 23:43.

[1461] In Retract. ii. 18, Augustin expresses a doubt whether the thief may not have been baptized.

[1462] Romans 10:10.

[1463] Matthew 3:6, 13.