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the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean; but now, they are holy.”(24)
Now all this throws much light on the subjects of Christian Education. For such are both the actual and the intended recipients of Christian baptism — viz. the believers and their children, and they alone, in contradistinction to unbelievers and their children. Indeed, what has been said of the education of Christian children — also holds true of their further education through to their Christian youth, and then further into the maturity of their Christian adulthood.
