For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Ce n'est pas pour baptiser que Christ m'a envoyé, c'est pour annoncer l'Evangile, et cela sans la sagesse du langage, afin que la croix de Christ ne soit pas rendue vaine.
KJV
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
the apostles with the office of baptizing, to be exercised vicariously; wherefore the Apostle says ( 1 Cor. 1:17 ): "Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel." And the reason for this was that the merit and wisdom of the minister have no bearing on the baptismal ef…
The Seven Ecumenical Councils
NPNF2-14. The Seven Ecumenical Councils
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 119 (Migne)
istus gratis mortuus est (Gal. II, 21) , et haec est sapientia verbi, in qua evacuatur crux Christi (I Cor. I, 17) . Vere enim si post aliud peccatum veram libertatem homo habere potuit, non indiguit redemptione, non indiguit redemptore, et superfluus est adventus Christi, superf…
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