41. Then, too, the Ethiopian eunuch of Queen
Candace, when baptized in Christ, obtained the fulness of the
sacrament. And they who said that they knew not of any Holy
Spirit, although they said that they had been baptized with
John’s baptism, were baptized afterwards, because John baptized
for the remission of sins in the Name of the coming Jesus, not in his
own. And so they knew not the Spirit, because in the form in
which John baptized they had not received baptism in the Name of
Christ. For John, though he did not baptize in the Spirit,
nevertheless preached Christ and the Spirit. And then, when he
was questioned whether he were perchance himself the Christ, he
answered: “I baptize you with water, but a stronger than I
shall come, Whose shoes I am not worthy to bear, He shall baptize you
with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” S. Matt. iii. 11; S. Luke iv. 16; S. John i. 26,
27. They therefore, because they had
been baptized neither in the Name of Christ nor with faith in the Holy
Spirit, could not receive the sacrament of baptism.