1 CORINTHIANS 1:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.”
So no one can say that you were baptized in my name — the reason is clear: baptism in Christ's name is ontological transfer of ownership from self to Christ. Any baptism 'in Paul's name' would have created a false lord and fractured the singular lordship of Christ.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 1:15
He states also the reason, why he gives thanks that he had baptized no one. What then is this reason? “Lest anyone should say that you were baptized into my own name.” Why, did he mean that they said this in those other cases? Not at all; but, “I fear,” says he, “lest the disease should proceed even to that. For if, when insignificant persons and of little worth baptize, a heresy arises, had I, the first announcer of Baptism, baptized many, it was likely that they forming a…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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