Basil, to that question, “How Christians are saved?” Gives this answer, “By being regenerated by the grace received at baptism.”[115] And a little after, “Baptism is unto me the beginning of life and the day of regeneration is the beginning of duties, in that respect.”[116] In another place, speaking of baptism, he says that it is, “the death of sin, the new birth of the soul,”[117]
