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St. Ambrose gave these talks in Easter week to people he had just baptized, explaining what had happened to them: the font, the anointing, the white garments and the Body and Blood of Christ.
Ambrose baptized Blessed Augustine, and this is the teaching Augustine would have heard.
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Translated by H. de Romestin, with E. de Romestin and H. T. F. Duckworth, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 10 (1896), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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