Confessions of Augustine: True Conversion Is Baptism (Part IV)
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I Drank in the Name of Christ With Milk
In the early Christian right of baptism, after you come up out of the water, you received a cup of milk and honey. I often thought when he says I drank in the name of Christ with milk, that may also be an allusion to this part of the baptismal right where before you receive communion, but after you're baptized, you receive sort of the milk and honey of the promised land. The proud don't want to admit that they need milk, that they need to become infants.
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