Nam cum multo post haec tempore viveret, et scripturis legendis operam daret, tandem didicit se aqua baptismatis non esse regeneratum, et mox fonte lavacri salutaris ablutus, etiam postmodum ad ordinem presbyterii promotus est, multisque in ecclesia utilis fuit: de quo dubitandum non crediderim, quin intercessionibus, ut dixi, sui patris, ad cuius corpus dilectionis ipsius gratia venerat, sit ab articulo mortis retentus, ut et ipse sic mortem evaderet aeternam, et aliis quoque fratribus ministerium vitae ac salutis docendo exhiberet.
For living long time after this and giving his time to reading Scripture, he learned at length that he had not been born again of the water of baptism, and, being shortly cleansed by the fount of the healthgiving laver, was also afterwards advanced to the order of priest and was profitable to many in the Church: of whom I should not believe it to be doubted but that, as I said, by the intercessions of his father, whose body out of the love he bare him he came to visit, he was held back from the point of death, that he might both himself escape everlasting death and also extend to other brethren the ministry of life and salvation by his doctrine.
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