“Why, when the Lord Himself told His disciples that they should baptize all
peoples in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, does this
Apostle employ the name of Christ alone in Baptism, saying, ‘we who have been
baptized in Christ’; for indeed, legitimate Baptism is had only in the name of the
Trinity.”
Homilies on Numbers (Post 244 AD):
Hom. 7, 2
“Formally, in an obscure way, there was manna for food; now, however, in full
view, there is the true food, the flesh of the word of God, as He Himself says: ‘My
flesh is truly food, and My Blood is truly drink.’”
Homilies on Leviticus (Post 244 AD):
Hom. 2, 4
“In addition to these there is also a seventh, albeit hard and laborious: the
remission of sins through penance, when the sinner washes his pillow with tears,
when his tears are day and night his nourishment, and when he does not shrink
from declaring his sin to a priest of the Lord and from seeking medicine, after the
manner of him who says, ‘I said, to the Lord I will accuse myself of my iniquity,
and you forgave the disloyalty of my heart.’”
Commentaries on Matthew (Post 244 AD):
14, 16
“Certainly it is God who joins two in one, so that when He marries a woman to a
man, there are no longer two. And since it is God who joins them, there is in this
joining a grace for those who are joined by God. Paul knew this, and he said that
just as holy celibacy was a grace so also was marriage according to the word of
God a grace. He says, ‘I would that all men were like myself; but each has his own
grace from God, one in this way, another in that.’”
Homilies on Leviticus (Post 244 AD):
Hom. 8, 3
“...According to the usage of the Church, Baptism is given even to infants. And
indeed if there were nothing in infants which required a remission of sins and
nothing in them pertinent to forgiveness, the grace of Baptism would seem
superfluous.”
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