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https://www.aoiusa.org/hellenism-and-byzantium/ A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:01:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/hellenism-and-byzantium/#comment-14493 Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:01:18 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7870#comment-14493 One coment on Constantine’s late baptism, very common in the 4th century. Some were not certain the effects of baptism on a person that committed a serious sin after baptism. So, Constantine a military leader and political ruler did committed some serious sins, one of the most famous involves the putting of death his second wife and son. Some think the wife spread a rumor that his son wanted sexual relations with her. A complex event in Constantine”s life. Also, the following people in the 4th century were not baptized as infants, Augustine, Ambrose, John Chrysostom, and Theodosius the first. Paul Maier, an historian who is Lutheran not orthodox mentions about that Constantine’s late bapistism doesn’t mean that he wasn’t a christian. This is in his tranlsation of Euesbius’s church history.

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