of Damascus said that the phrase “baptism of fire”, used some of the saints, is not the baptism of the sinner, and purging the world of sinners, which will be linked forever with fire. Also, the phrase “baptism of the flood” does not mean the baptism of sinners (even the righteous at the time had not been baptized), and cleansing the land of the ancient sin Cainite (St. John Damascene, Exact Exposition of the Orthodox faith, “ch.” On Baptism).
Ben Liver