NOTES

Whoever scares his regeneration through Baptism but still has the same way of life must listen to the word of God who says: "If one thinks it is something, when it is nothing, he deceives himself" and " gave them the right to become children of God. " If one claims to have received God, he must show it by his choice. "Show yourself to Him who has begotten you". And he asks very diligently: "Do you not know that a man becomes a son of God in any other way than to become holy?" To be God's child you must be holy.

Saint Gregory reaches the point of making a bold statement, as he says. If, despite baptism, the soul has not removed the stains - that is, if our life after baptism is the same as the previous one - then the water of mystery is simply water "because the grace of the Holy Spirit did not appear". In other words, it is like a man who had not received the gift of the Holy Spirit.