12. There is also a third testimony, as the
Apostle teaches us: “For all our fathers were under the
cloud, and all passed through the sea, and were all baptized to Moses
in the cloud and in the sea.” 1 Cor. x. 1, 2. And
further, Moses himself says in his song: “Thou sentest Thy
Spirit, and the sea covered them.” Ex. xv. 10. You observe that even then holy
baptism was prefigured in that passage of the Hebrews, wherein the
Egyptian perished, the Hebrew escaped. For what else are we daily
taught in this sacrament but that guilt is swallowed up and error done
away, but that virtue and innocence remain unharmed?