For this reason, indeed, we baptize infants, though they have no sins*, so that sanctification, righteousness, adoption, inheritance, brotherhood, and being members of Christ, becoming a dwelling place of the Spirit may be added.—St. John Chrysostom, Sermon 3 on the Newly Illumined
*Chrysostom was speaking here of volitional sins, sins committed in defiance of God’s will which one knows and understands, but chooses to ignore.
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