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| | EVEN UNTO DEATH |
 | | Dirk Philips, a Franciscan monk prior to his conversion, was baptized by Pieter Houtzagher, an other "apostle," a week later, near the close of 1533. |
| | Menno and Dirk, however, were congregation-centered in their thinking; they were determined to set up a fellowship of truly converted people, each group to be a well-disciplined unit of love and fellowship, obedient to Christ and his Word, especially to the New Testament. |
| | The division began in the canton of Bern and spread to the congregations in Alsace and in the Rhenish Palatinate. |
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