Chapter III.
Having recounted some of the history of Naaman, he then proceeds to describe several other figures of the same sacrament.
Now consider each point. We mentioned that the figure had gone ahead in the Jordan, when Naaman the leper was cleansed. That girl from among the captives (2 Kings 5:5), unless she who had the appearance of the Church and represented a figure? For the captive was the people of the nations, they were captive, I do not say held captive under any particular nation: but I say that captivity which is greater, when the devil with his cruel dominion rules and subjects the necks of sinners to himself.
Therefore you have one baptism, another in the flood, you have a third kind, when the fathers were baptized in the Red Sea, you have a fourth kind in the pool, when the water was stirred. Now I advise you whether you should believe because you have the presence of the Trinity in this baptism, by which one is baptized in the Church.