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Of the Damascene. 95.233 And the Spirit descends upon the apostles. For he is God; and God is a consuming fire. For this reason Christ is said to baptize with fire, because he poured out the grace of Christ upon his holy disciples in the form of fiery tongues, or because of the punishing nature of the future fire. For that baptism is the last one, not salvific, but destructive of evil; for evil and sin no longer exist; but punishing without end.

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Τοῦ ∆αμασκηνοῦ. 95.233 Καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀποστόλους τὸ Πνεῦμα κάτεισι. Θεὸς γάρ ἐστιν· ὁ δὲ Θεὸς πῦρ καταναλίσκον ἐστί. ∆ιὰ τοῦτο πυρὶ λέγεται βαπτίζειν ὁ Χριστὸς, ἐπειδὴ ἐν εἴδει πυρίνων γλωττῶν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἁγίους αὐτοῦ μαθητὰς τὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ χάριν ἐξέχεεν, ἢ διὰ τὸ τοῦ μέλλοντος πυρὸς κολαστικόν. Βάπτισμα γὰρ κἀκεῖνο τελευταῖον, οὐ σωτήριον, ἀλλὰ τῆς μὲν κακίας ἀναιρετικόν· οὐκέτι γὰρ κακία καὶ ἁμαρτία πολιτεύεται· κολάζον δὲ ἀτελεύτητα.