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Origen on Infant Baptism

Tuesday, October 30, 2007. 0 Comments:

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In his commentary on Romans, Origen explains that we all innately possess sin's defilement. It was in recognition of this that the early church baptised infants. Origen writes, "It is on this account as well that the Church has received the tradition from the apostles to give baptism even to little children. For they to whom the secrets of the divine mysteries were committed were aware than in everyone was sin's innate defilement, which needed to be washed away through water and the Spirit."

Or.Rom5.9.11 (Scheck)

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