We have already seen that infants were certainly being baptized by the beginning of the third century, if not long before that. Various factors were to contribute to making infant baptism the normal practice in both East and West. Many adults, including Constantine himself, delayed baptism until their deathbed thereby avoiding the need ever to become a penitent because they could erase all their sins at once. But this so-called clinical(bed) baptism was strongly discouraged because no one knows the date of their death. Most forceful was the teaching of Augustine of Hippo with regard to the connection of sin and baptism. Through baptism, he taught “infants die to original sin only, adults, to all those sins which they have added, through their evil living, to the burden they brought with them at birth.” No one could risk dying with the guilt of original and actual sin although Augustine who certainly had his share of the latter, was not baptized himself until age 32.