NEW TESTAMENT

Luke 1:63

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63

He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, “His name is John.” They all marveled.

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Verse 63. As then in circumcision, so now in baptism, names are given. And as we see here, and is all the Old Testament, great respect was had of names, so must we be aware of profane and secular names, and rather, according to the catechism of the council of Trent, take names of saints and holy persons, which may put us in mind of their virtues. De Bap. in fine.

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