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Africa is the home of many Christian "firsts." To Tertullian of Carthage we owe the earliest Christian treatise about the sacraments, On Baptism: "But we, little fishes, after the example of our ΙΧΘΥΣ Jesus Christ, are born in water, nor have we safety in any other way than by permanently abiding in water."
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