Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume IV/Donatist Controversy/On Baptism/Book VII/Chapter 29

56.&#160; Quintus of Aggya said:&#160; "He who has a thing can give it; but what can the heretics give, who are well known to have nothing?"

57.&#160; To him our answer is:&#160; If, then, any man can give a thing who has it, it is clear that heretics can give baptism:&#160; for when they separate from the Church, they have still the sacrament of washing which they had received while in the Church; for when they return they do not again receive it, because they had not lost it when they withdrew from the Church.