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===Fifth century: Council of Mileum II, A.D. 416, Council of Carthage 417 or 418===

===Fifth century: Council of Mileum II, A.D. 416, Council of Carthage 417 or 418===

One of the earliest mentions of an ''[[anathema]]'' of those who prohibit the practice of infant baptism is found in the Canons of the Council of Mileum II [A.D. 416]:

One of the earliest mentions of an ''[[anathema]]'' of those who prohibit the practice of infant baptism is found in the Canons of the Council of Mileum II [A.D. 416]: <ref>See [https://www.churchfathers.org/infant-baptism Church Fathers - Infant Baptism (churchfathers.org)] ''scroll down to'' Council of Mileum II.</ref>

:“[W]hoever says that infants fresh from their mothers’ wombs ought not to be baptized, or say that they are indeed baptized unto the remission of sins, but that they draw nothing of the original sin of Adam, which is expiated in the bath of regeneration . . . let him be anathema [excommunicated]. Since what the apostle [Paul] says, ‘Through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so passed to all men, in whom all have sinned’ [Rom. 5:12], must not be understood otherwise than the Catholic Church spread everywhere has always understood it. For on account of this rule of faith even infants, who in themselves thus far have not been able to commit any sin, are therefore truly baptized unto the remission of sins, so that that which they have contracted from generation may be cleansed in them by regeneration” (Canon 3).

:“[W]hoever says that infants fresh from their mothers’ wombs ought not to be baptized, or say that they are indeed baptized unto the remission of sins, but that they draw nothing of the original sin of Adam, which is expiated in the bath of regeneration . . . let him be anathema [excommunicated]. Since what the apostle [Paul] says, ‘Through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so passed to all men, in whom all have sinned’ [Rom. 5:12], must not be understood otherwise than the Catholic Church spread everywhere has always understood it. For on account of this rule of faith even infants, who in themselves thus far have not been able to commit any sin, are therefore truly baptized unto the remission of sins, so that that which they have contracted from generation may be cleansed in them by regeneration” (Canon 3).