c. 198–203
Latin
On Baptism
De Baptismo
Tertullian · c. 155–c. 220
A defence of baptism against a teacher who denied its necessity, describing the rite in detail and advising that children wait until they can ask for it themselves.
101–200
The Second Century
1 work
201–300
The Third Century
1 work
c. 250–300
Greek, surviving in Coptic
The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
Anonymous
Hermes leads a pupil through the last stages of initiation into silence, where the two of them see the eighth sphere and hear the ninth singing, and the pupil finds he can no longer speak in his own words but only in a hymn of vowels.