Given the two positions, if a member of Caecilian’s party decided to join the Donatists, a new baptism was required, for the Donatists claimed that a baptism administered by their opponents was not valid. But, on the other hand, those who left the Donatist party were not rebaptized by Caecilian and his followers, for they claimed that baptism was valid regardless of the worth of the one administering it.
