INDEX.
- Ablution, Mode of domestic, page 119.
- Abrahamic covenant, p. [37].
- Administration of the great Baptizer, p. [338].
- Agora,—the market, p. [214].
- Akiva, Rabbi, p. [213].
- Alexander, Dr. Addison, quoted, p. [287], [301], [310], [453].
- Ambrose on Levitical baptism, p. [194].
- Angel of his presence, p. [223].
- Anointing of Christ, p. [254].
- Apocrypha, their value, p. [153].
- Aristophanes quoted, p. [186], [325].
- Armstrong quoted, p. [259].
- Ashes of the red heifer, p. [68], [98].
- Ashes of calves, at Rome, p. [185].
- Assembly, Day of the, p. [51].
- Athenaeus quoted, p. [325].
- Augustine quoted, p. [303].
- Aztec baptism of Infants, p. [191].
- Babylonian Gemara, p. [78].
- Babylonian rabbinic schools, p. [78], [81].
- Baptism—Argument from the real, p. [343].
- Baptism of fire, p. [284].
- Baptism of the Holy Ghost, p. [273], [277], [299], [322], [331].
- Baptism of Repentance and remission, p. [318], [331], [447].
- Baptism of Jesus by John, p. [247].
- “Baptism that I am baptized with,” p. [257].
- Baptisma and Baptismos, p. [156].
- Baptisms, Divers, imposed on Israel, p. [22], [103].
- Baptisms of things, p. [136], [219].
- Baptismal formula. There is none, p. [438].
- Baptismal regeneration, p. [377].
- “Baptized for the dead,” p. [170].
- “Baptized from the dead,” p. [169].
- Baptized into Christ, p. [321], [332], [368].
- Baptized into one body, p. [357].
- Baptized into Moses, p. [350], [457].
- Baptizing administration of Christ, p. [338].
- Baptizing office of Christ, p. [273].
- Baptizo, p. [153].
- Baptizōntai and rantizōntai, p. [216].
- Barthelemi, Abbe, quoted, p. [184].
- “Believeth and is baptized,” p. [437].
- Blood of Sprinkling, p. [30].
- Blood and water, and blood alone, p. [97].
- “Born of water and of the Spirit,” p. [384].
- Brahminism the source of ritual immersion, p. [80].
- Breath of Christ—the Spirit, p. [299].
- Bryant’s Odyssey quoted, p. [127].
- “Buried by baptism,” p. [364].
- “Buried in baptism,” p. [371].
- Calvin on the baptizing commission, p. [424].
- Canaan, Office of the land of, p. [48].
- Candlestick, Seven-branched, p. [311].
- Carson quoted, p. [23], [89], [205], [368].
- Charter of the church, p. [53].
- Childbirth uncleanness, p. [62].
- Children and Christ, p. [461].
- Children clean, holy, p. [466].
- Children of Midian baptized, p. [81].
- Christ did not institute baptism, p. [428].
- Christ and the children, p. [461].
- Christian baptism one with John’s, p. [424].
- Christian fathers on Levitical baptism, p. [192].
- Christ’s baptism by John, p. [247].
- It sealed him Surety of the covenant, p. [252].
- Christ’s “baptism that I am baptized with,” p. [257].
- Christ’s baptizing office, p. [273].
- Church defined, p. [49].
- Church and children, p. [461], [466].
- Church of Israel, p. [49], [411], [441].
- The Gentiles graffed in, p. [418].
- Circe, Ulysses’ bath in her palace, p. [127].
- Circumcision. Its office, p. [24], [58], [373].
- Circumcision and Baptism, p. [58].
- Common Prayer Book on baptism, p. [354].
- Conant on baptizo, p. [155], [347].
- Converts of Pentecost. Their character, p. [444].
- Were baptized with water, p. [440].
- Cornelius’ baptism, p. [432], [455].
- Council, of Ephesus, p. [281];
- Covenant, Abrahamic, p. [37];
- Cyril of Alexandria, on Levitical baptism, p. [195].
- Dr. Dale quoted, p. [279], [441], [443], [451].
- “Day of the assembly,” p. [51].
- A day, a symbol of a lifetime, p. [109].
- Dead. Defilement by, p. [62].
- Dead Sea, as a type, p. [32], [34].
- Didymus Alexandrinus, p. [378].
- Divers baptisms imposed on Israel, p. [22].
- What were they? p. [103].
- Ebrard quoted, p. [294].
- Ecclēsia. Origin of the name, p. [51].
- Egypt and Israel, p. [179].
- Egyptian bathing, p. [120].
- Egyptian baptism, p. [189].
- Elders. Their origin, p. [53].
- Eleusinian mysteries, p. [188].
- Elijah and Elisha, champions of the covenant, p. [166], [229].
- Elijah and John, p. [229].
- Ellicott (Bishop) on loutron, p. [323].
- End of the Baptist argument, p. [374].
- England, Church of—Baptistic, p. [323], note; [354].
- Enon, The Springs, p. [360].
- Etheridge quoted, p. [78], [80], [169], [417], [418].
- Ethiopian eunuch, p. [451].
- Euripides quoted, p. [186], [187].
- Eusebius quoted, p. [417].
- Evidence of O. T. summed, p. [196].
- Family and the church, p. [53].
- Fathers of the church, on Levitical baptism, p. [192];
- on the old covenant and the new, p. [377].
- Feet. Their typical meaning, p. [134].
- Their washing, p. [124].
- Festival of pouring water, p. [143].
- It and the Eleusinia, p. [189].
- Figure of immersion not in the Old Testament, p. [23].
- Fire, The Baptism of, p. [284].
- The manner of it, p. [296].
- Formula of Baptism, p. [434], [438].
- Furniture and utensils baptized, p. [136], [219].
- Ganges. Immersion thence, p. [80].
- Gemara of Babylonia, p. [78];
- of Jerusalem, p. [78].
- Gentiles, place reserved in the Sinai covenant, p. [46].
- Gentile purifyings, p. [8], [181], [189], [191].
- Godhead. Order of precedence, p. [274].
- Gospel in the Old Testament baptism, p. [95].
- Greek bath, p. [121], [127], [200], [207], [324].
- Their purifyings, p. [181].
- Grote, on Greek purifyings, p 181.
- Hair shaved, p. [102], [114], [399].
- Hakkodesh, Rabbi Judah, p. [78].
- Hebrew-Christian church, p. [411].
- Hellenistic Greek, p. [151].
- Herodotus on Greek purifyings, p. [182].
- Hillel and Shammai on proselyte baptism, p. [79].
- Homer quoted, p. [127], [325].
- Household and church, p. [53], [461].
- Imitations of baptism by the heathen, p. [8], [178], [189].
- Immersion. None in the Old Testament ritual, p. [23].
- India. Immersion thence, p. [80].
- Infant baptism,
- “Into Christ,” and “into the name of Christ,” p. [365], [434].
- “Into the name,” p. [431].
- “Into the name of Christ,” and, of the Three, p. [435].
- Israel a priest kingdom, p. [46].
- Israel at John’s coming, p. [225].
- Israel compared with the Christian church, p. [305].
- Issues. Unclean by, p. [62].
- The cleansing, p. [69].
- Jailer of Philippi, p. [456].
- Jerome on Levitical baptism, p. [194].
- Jerusalem council, p. [394].
- Jerusalem Gemara, p. [78].
- Jesus, baptized by John, p. [247];
- John and Elijah, p. [228].
- John’s mission, p. [221].
- Josephus quoted, p. [156], [176], [178], [240], [250], [327].
- Judith’s story and baptism, p. [172].
- Kabala, whence derived, p. [80].
- Kābas defined, p. [117].
- Kendrick on baptizo, p. [349], [458].
- Kingdom of heaven defined, p. [267].
- Christ’s coronation, p. [273].
- Kingdom of priests, p. [46].
- Koran quoted, p. [174].
- “Lambs in his arms,” p. [463].
- Laver of the Tabernacle, p. [129].
- Laver (loutron) of Paul, p. [323].
- Leprosy, unclean, p. [63], [161].
- Levi, Rabbi, quoted, p. [147].
- Levites baptized, p. [85].
- Levitical baptisms all one, p. [86].
- Lewis’ Origines Hebraeae quoted, p. [146], [149].
- Libation vase of Osor-Ur, p. [189].
- Life to the dead, meant by baptism, p. [92].
- Lightfoot quoted, p. [143], [146], [149].
- Living water. Its meaning, p. [31], [133], [387].
- Lord’s supper is the passover, p. [408].
- Lynch, “Dead Sea Expedition” quoted, p. [122], [125].
- Maimonides on proselyte baptism, p. [76].
- Malachi, and John, p. [291].
- Manuscripts of New Testament. Care in their transcription, p. [217].
- Maitland, “Church of the Catacombs,” p. [124].
- Market. Baptism after, p. [214].
- Marriage feast, p. [209], [211].
- Messenger of the covenant, p. [223].
- Metaphor of water, p. [89], [386].
- Midianite children, baptism, p. [81].
- Mishna described, p. [78].
- Mission of John, p. [221].
- Missions. The new spirit imparted, p. [304].
- Mode implied in the meaning of self-washing, p. [115].
- Mohammedan washing before prayer, p. [174].
- Moore, T. V., on Malachi, p. [291].
- Mosheim quoted, p. [189], [418].
- “Much water there,” p. [360].
- Murder, expiation, p. [123].
- Naaman’s baptism, p. [157].
- New Testament Greek, p. [151].
- New Testament Church, how organized, p. [393], [411], [418].
- Nidda, Water of, p. [74].
- Noah saved by water, p. [333].
- Old Testament evidence summed p. [196].
- Onkelos, Targum of, p. [77].
- Order of precedence in the Godhead, p. [274].
- Mediatorial order, p. [275].
- Ordinances of testimony in Israel, p. [54].
- Osor-Ur. Libation vase, p. [189].
- Ovid on purifyings, p. [184].
- Palestine. Central position, p. [49], [178].
- Its geology and water, p. [120].
- Palestinian Gemara, p. [78].
- Passover described, p. [24], [410].
- Perpetuated in the supper, p. [408].
- Pentecost, p. [297].
- Pharisees. The sect, p. [236], [412].
- Their purifyings, p. [209].
- Philip and the eunuch, p. [451].
- Philo Judaeus on the Levitical baptism, p. [77], [175], [187], [327].
- Phœnicia and Israel, p. [179], [183].
- Plato quoted, p. [181], [245].
- Pliny quoted, p. [452].
- Plutarch quoted, p. [326].
- Pool’s Synopsis quoted, p. [149].
- Pouring of water. The festival, p. [143].
- Pouring water—in ablutions, p. [119], [124].
- among the Greeks, p. [324].
- Pouring water in ritual washings of the hands, p. [123], [173].
- Prayer. Washings before, p. [173].
- In the Koran, p. [174].
- Priesthood of Aaron, His inauguration, p. [131], [248].
- Priesthood of Christ not after Aaron’s pattern, p. [250].
- Priest-kingdom, Israel, p. [46], [150].
- Priests’ self-washings not immersions, p. [128].
- Pumbaditha rabbinic seminary, p. [78].
- Purifying of Jesus and Mary, p. [84].
- Purifyings of the Jews, p. [208].
- Purifyings of things, p. [102], [136], [219].
- Rabbi.
- Rabbinic baptism of Proselytes, p. [76], [81].
- Rabbinic Schools, p. [78].
- Rabbinic traditions of the red heifer, p. [142].
- Rāhatz, defined, p. [118].
- Rantizōntai and Baptizōntai, p. [216].
- Rebaptism. Note on, p. [430].
- of John’s disciples, p. [429].
- Red heifer. The ashes, p. [68], [69].
- Remission. Baptism of, p. [96], [244], [318].
- Resurrection symbolized by baptism, p. [92], [257], [265].
- Resurrection and baptizo, p. [347].
- Revised Version on loutron, p. [323].
- Revival at Sinai, p. [28].
- Baptism of the converts, p. [29].
- Revival under Hezekiah, p. [139].
- Purifying them, p. [139].
- Revival under John’s ministry, p. [232].
- Revival of Pentecost, p. [297], [318].
- Ritual law. Its office, p. [54].
- Rushing mighty wind of Pentecost, p. [299].
- Sacraments of the Old Testament, p. [24];
- Sahagun quoted, p. [192].
- Sacrifice defined, p. [24].
- Sadducees. The sect, p. [412], [413].
- Saints. Origin of the title, p. [47], [469].
- Scrivener on the Greek MSS., p. [218].
- Sea of brass, p. [130].
- Sea water. Its meaning, p. [32].
- Idolatrous use of it, p. [187].
- Self-washings, p. [101], [108].
- Separation. Water of, p. [68], [73].
- Septuagint. Its origin, p. [152].
- Seven candlesticks, p. [128], [311].
- Seven days uncleanness, p. [60], [64], [98].
- Seven sprinklings, p. [67], [98].
- Seventh day. Symbolic meaning, p. [64], [98].
- Shammai and Hillel on proselyte baptism, p. [79].
- Shasters, p. [80].
- Shātaph, defined, p. [117].
- Shaving off the hair, p, [114].
- By Paul, p. [399].
- Sinai. The scene, p. [27].
- Smith’s Dictionary quoted, p. [127], [184], [188], [247], [324], [363].
- Socrates and Phaedrus, p. [245].
- Solomon, Rabbi, quoted, p. [149].
- Son of man. His kingdom, p. [267].
- His administration, p. [338].
- Sophocles quoted, p. [325], [326].
- Sora rabbinic school, p. [78].
- Sprinkling represents rain, p. [35].
- State of the N. T. question, p. [201].
- Susannah’s story, p. [122].
- Tābal. Its meaning, p. [79], [157].
- Tabernacle. Its symbolic structure, p. [128].
- Tabernacles. The feast of, p. [144].
- Talmud described, p. [78].
- Talmudic baptism, p. [76].
- Targums described, p. [77].
- Ten commandments, the eternal law of the covenant, p. [43].
- Tertullian quoted, p. [193], [378].
- Theodosia Earnest quoted, p. [233], [236].
- Theophrastus quoted, p. [324].
- Things purified, p. [102], [136], [219].
- Third day. Its typical meaning, p. [100].
- Thomson. The Land and the Book, p. [34].
- Tiberias rabinnic school, p. [78].
- Tongues as of fire, p. [310].
- Tongues. Other, p. [313].
- Transcription of the N. T. Care in it, p. [217].
- Transfiguration of Jesus, p. [230].
- Trinity. Order of precedence, p. [274].
- Procession of the Spirit, p. [281].
- Typical structure of the tabernacle, p. [128].
- Ulysses’ bath, p. [127].
- Unclean. Its meaning, p. [60], [466].
- Unclean seven days. The meaning, p. [60], [98].
- How cleansed, p. [65].
- Unclean till even. Two causes, p. [108].
- The meaning, p. [109].
- Union wrought by baptism, p. [322], [332].
- Utensils and furniture baptized, p. [136], [219].
- Various reading of Mark vii, 4, p. [216].
- Vedas, referred to, p. [80].
- Virgil quoted on purifyings, p. [186].
- Waldenses referred to, p. [49].
- Washing. Before prayer, p. [173].
- Mohammedan, p. [174].
- Washing, the hands, p. [111].
- Washings of the people. Domestic, p. [119].
- “Washing of water by the word,” p. [390].
- Water, fresh and salt, p. [31], [32].
- Water, Metaphor of, p. [387].
- Water. Festival of outpouring, p. [143].
- Wilkinson’s Manners and Customs of the Egyptians, p. [120].
- Wind, Rushing mighty,—of Pentecost, p. [299].
- Witness. Israel’s office, p. [47], [54].
- Zend Avesta, referred to, p. [80].
- Zion. Out of her the law, p. [420].
- Zoroaster referred to, p. [80].
Footnotes
[1]. My authorities are “A voyage to Abyssinia, and travels in the interior of that country, executed under the orders of the British government, in the years 1809 and 1810, etc., by Henry Salt, Esq., F. R. S., etc., London, 1814;” and the personal testimonies of several of our missionaries to the east, who have related to me what they saw.
[2]. I assume what I believe to be demonstrable, that Paul was the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews.
[3]. “Carson on Baptism” (published by C. C. P. Crosby: New York, 1832), p. 117.
[4]. “The Land and the Book.” Vol. II, pp. 531, 534.
[6]. Maimonides, Issure Biah, Perek 13, in Lightfoot, Harmonia Evang. in Joan i, 25.
[7]. Maimonides, as above, in Lightfoot, on John iii, 23.
[8]. According to Etheridge, the final revision of the Babylonian Gemara was completed by Rabbi Jose, president of the rabbinic seminary at Pumbaditha, on the Euphrates, in the year 499 or 500.—Jerusalem and Tiberias, pp. 174-176.
[9]. Tract Pesachim, cap. viii, § 8.
[10]. This is clearly shown by Etheridge, in “Jerusalem and Tiberias.” Pp. 339 et seq. The same thing is largely illustrated in Blavatsky’s “Isis Revealed.”
[11]. Compare Ezek. xlvii, 2; John ix, 7. “Go wash in the pool of Siloam, which is by interpretation, Sent.”
[12]. Carson on Baptism, p. 167.
[13]. This reading is attested by codices Bezæ, Alexandrinus, Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, and is fully sustained by the internal evidence.
[14]. Wilkinson, vol. iii, p. 388; Abridged edition, ii, 349.
[15]. Lynch’s Dead Sea Expedition, p. 206.
[16]. Maitland’s “Church of the Catacombs,” p. 261. Also, Withrow’s “Catacombs,” p. 333.
[17]. “Several of them [Arabs of the Jordan] wore sandals, a rude invention to protect the feet. It was a thick piece of hide, confined by a thong passing under the sole at the hollow of the foot, around the heel, and between the great toe and the one which adjoins it.”—Lynch’s “Dead Sea Expedition,” p. 282. These thongs were the “latchets” of Mark i, 7.
[18]. “Ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τοὺς πόδας μου οὐκ ἔδωκας.” The preposition, επι, with the accusative, means upon, with the idea of previous or present motion,—to wit, (in this place,) of the water, poured and flowing upon the feet.
[19]. Gen. xxiv, 13.—; Ex. ii, 15-19; Judges v, 11; Ruth ii, 1-4; 2 Sam. xxiii, 15; 1 Sam. ix, 11; John iv, 7; Matt. xx, 1-7.
[20]. See Wilkinson, above quoted, and Smith’s Greek and Roman Antiquities, article “Balneæ;” and below pp. 200, 207.
[21]. Bryant’s Odyssey, Book X, 429-437.
[22]. Juchasin, fol 16, in Lightfoot.
[23]. Ps. cxiii-cxviii, were known among the Jews as, the Hallel, that is, Praise, being sung at the temple on the first of each month, and at the annual feasts.
[24]. See Ezek. viii, 16.
[25]. Lightfoot on this Feast and that of Tabernacles. Lewis’s “Origines Hebraeæ.” Pool’s “Synopsis,” etc.
[26]. Rabbi Solomon on Num. xxix, in Lightfoot on this feast.
[27]. Pool’s Synopsis, on John vii, 37. He refers to Grotius.
[28]. Lewis’s Origines Hebraeæ, p. 606.
[29]. “The Meaning and Use of Baptizein, Philologically and Historically investigated for the American Bible Union. By T. J. Conant, D. D.,” p. 158. The italics are by Dr. C.
[30]. “Antiquities of the Jews,” XVIII, vi, 2.
[31]. J. W. Etheridge, in “Jerusalem and Tiberias.” P. 105.
[32]. Sale’s “Koran,” chapter v.
[33]. ἀφ’ ὡν ἔθος αὐτο μιανεσθαι.—“From those things which custom causes to defile it.” Ἔθος, commonly means a custom grounded in law. (Compare Acts vi, 14; xv, 1; xvi, 21; xxi, 21; xxv, 16; xxvi, 3; xxviii, 17; etc.)
[34]. Philonis Judæi Opera omnia, Frankofurti, 1691, De Victimas Offerentibus.
[35]. Josephus, Antiquities, IV, iv, 6.
[36]. “Βαπτίσαντες τε καὶ της τέφρας ταύτης εἰς πηγὴν.” Τῆς τέφρας ταύτες is the partitive and instrumental Genitive, and indicates the ashes-in-water, as that with which the baptism was to be performed. (Compare John ii, 7.—“Fill the water pots with water.”)
[37]. Josephus against Apion. Book ii, 27.
[38]. That this altar was the expression of a blind though real groping after the true God, is distinctly attested by Paul.—“Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you.”—Acts xvii, 23. To suppose as do some that the altar was erected by one who was uncertain which of the tutelary deities he should propitiate, implies Paul to have resorted to a weak pretense, founded on the mere jingle of words, which, so far from constituting an appropriate and impressive basis for his argument and appeal, would have invited the derision and contempt of his skeptical audience. He adopted no such artifice; but appealed to a recognized and affecting fact.
[39]. Plato, in Cratylo, xxii.
[40]. But Herodotus does not “represent” the manner of the purifying of Adrastus. Moreover, the legend of Crœsus and Adrastus, is fabulous, as appears from internal evidence (see Rawlinson’s note on the place); and with it, the theory of Grote, as to the Lydian origin of the Greek purifying rites falls to the ground. See Rawlinson’s Herodotus, Hist. I. 35.
[41]. Grote i, 29-35.
[42]. Ib. 530.
[43]. Smith’s Greek and Roman Antiquities, article, “Lustratio.”
[44]. Travels of Anacharsis, Introduction.
[45]. Ovidii Fast. ii, vs. 27-46.
[46]. Ib. iv, 633-640; 731-736.
[47]. Ovidii Fast. ii, v, 673-688.
[48]. Æn. ii, 717.
[49]. Ibid. vi, 229.—The (novissima verba) last or parting words, were addressed to the deceased,—“Vale! Vale! Vale!” Farewell! Farewell! Farewell!
[50]. Compare above, p. [138].
[51]. Euripides in Alcest. 398. See, also, Aristophanes in Eccl. 1025.
[52]. Rees’s Encyclopedia, article, “Lustration.”
[54]. Κλυζω (klyzō) to besprinkle, to water, to rinse, to dash over. “The sea, besprinkling, washes away all the crimes of men.”
[55]. Iphigenia in Taur. 1192-1194.
[56]. Smith’s Dictionary, article “Mysteria.”
[57]. Smith, article “Eleusinia.” Compare above, p. [144].
[58]. “Ὑδρανος (hydranos), a waterer, a sprinkler with water; from ὑδραινο to water, to sprinkle any one with water, to pour out libations.”—Liddell & Scott’s Greek Lexicon.
[59]. Mosheim, Eccl. Hist., Book II., Part i, § 18.
[60]. As this work goes into the hands of the printers, the newspapers announce that “the Rev. Professor Campbell of Montreal has discovered that the Hittite and Aztec alphabets are identical, and by applying the latter to the former, he has been enabled to read inscriptions belonging to the ninth century before Christ.” Should this announcement prove true, it brings the Aztecs into a relation to Israel which the reader will at once recognize.
[61]. Sahagun. Hist. de Nueva Espana, vi, 37. In Prescott’s “Conquest of Mexico.” Vol. III, p. 385.
[62]. Tertull. de Baptisma, chapter v.
[63]. Ambrosii Opera, in Psa. li.
[64]. Ibid., in Apocal. cap. 6.
[65]. Ibid. Lit. ad initiandos. c, 7.
[66]. Carson on Baptism, pp. 265-268.
[67]. This is not the place to enlarge upon the present obligation of this law. In the above places, the reader will find it, as at first given to Noah, as expounded and perpetuated under the Levitical dispensation, and as again re-enforced upon the Gentile churches by the apostles. When and why was it abrogated?
[68]. Scrivener’s Collation of the Codex Sinaiticus, Introduction, p. xx.
[69]. Theodosia Ernest, Vol. I, p. 79. Published by the Baptist Publication Society.
[70]. Theodosia Earnest, vol. i, p. 80.
[71]. Jewish war. II. xiv, 3; and VI. x, 3.
[72]. Platonis Phæd., v.
[73]. In Smith’s Bib. Dict. article, “Jesus.”
[74]. Dale’s Christic Baptism, pp. 27, 29.
[75]. Josephus’ Antiquities, XV, iii, 3.
[76]. Armstrong on the Sacraments, pp. 48, 49.
[78]. “Christic Baptism,” pp. 53, 56, 57.
[79]. Ibid, p. 76.
[80]. Alexander on Matthew.
[81]. The italics are his own.
[82]. The Prophets of the Restoration, by Rev. T. V. Moore, D. D.
[83]. Ebrard, in Olshausen, on the place.
[84]. Alexander on the Acts, in loco.
[85]. Augustinus de Nupt. et Concup. II, 29.
[86]. Alexander on the Acts.
[87]. Τουτο, in the neuter gender.
[88]. Ellicott’s Commentary, on Eph. v, 26. On the mode of baptism, circumstances detract greatly from the authority of divines of the English church. The doctrine of that body on the prerogative of the church to ordain rites and ceremonies has a double effect. On the one hand, it takes away the motive to a thorough study of the Scriptural evidence on the subject. On the other, it induces a sense of satisfaction in admitting that the apostolic mode of baptism was by immersion, and then pointing to the contrary form now in use, as an illustration of the exercise of the church’s authority over the matter. When to this is added the veneration cherished for “the primitive church” of the third and fourth centuries, in which immersion had gained extensive footing, and the recognition of that form in the rubric for baptism, hereafter quoted (below, p. [354]), we will be justified in looking farther before accepting, as conclusive, the judgment, however pronounced, of divines of that church.
[89]. Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, article, “Balneæ.” The engravings referred to, will be found on pages 200, 207, above.
[90]. Βάψας ἀρύταιναν, αὐτος ἑαυτον καταχέασθαι, καὶ ειπεν ὃτι λέλουται. Theophrastus, Char. 16 (9).
[91]. Athenæus, Deipnosoph. xii, 6 (512).
[92]. Aristophanes, Nub. 1051.
[93]. Ἡνώγει ῥυτῶν ὑδάτων ἐνεγκεῖν λουτρὰ. Soph., Œd. Col. 1598.
[94]. Εἰσόκε θερμὰ λοετρὰ ἐϋπλόκαμος Ἑκαμήδη θερμήνη.—Iliad xiv, 6.
[95]. Σὺ δ’ ἀλλὰ νεκρῷ λουτρὰ περιβαλεῖν μ’ ἕα.—Eurip., Phoen. 1667.
[96]. Οὐκ οἶσθα λουτρὸν οἷον αἵδ’ ἡμᾶς ἕλουσαν ἄρτι.—Aristophanes, Lysist. 377, 469.
[97]. Sophocles, Antigone, 1201.
[98]. Πατρὸς χέοντες λουτρά. Sophocles. Elect. 84.
[99]. Οὐδε λουτρὰ προσφέρειν πατρί. Ib. 434.
[100]. Ἰῶμεν, ἀπολουσάμενοι τόν ἀπο τῆς μαχῆς ἱδρώτα τῷ Δαρειοῦ λουτρῷ. Plutarch, Alexand. 20.
[101]. Jewish War. VII, vi, 3.
[102]. The Meaning and Use of Baptizein, p. 88.
[103]. Review of Dale’s Classic Baptism, in the Baptist Quarterly,
[104]. “Meaning and Use of Baptizein,” p. 158.
[105]. “The Two Books of Common Prayer,” set forth by authority of Parliament, in the reign of King Edward VI, edited by Edward Cardwell, D.D., Principal of St. Alban’s Hall, Oxford, 1852.
[106]. Mr. George Grove, in Smith’s Bible Dictionary, article, “Palestine.”
[107]. Carson on Baptism, p. 251.
[108]. Did. Alex. xxxix, 716. In Dale’s Christ. Bapt. p. 342.
[109]. He alludes to a relation to the Spirit, supposed to be indicated in Gen. i, 2.
[110]. Tertullianus, De Bapt., ch. iv.
[111]. That ἡμων, the reading of the Textus Receptus, should be ὑμῶν, “your hearts,” is testified by a number of MSS., among which is the Sinaiticus, and is imperatively demanded by the connection.
[112]. The “Greeting” (Chairein) Acts xv, 23; is found nowhere else in the New Testament, save in James i, 1.
[113]. Alexander on Acts, xxi, 20.
[114]. Eusebius iii, 11; iv, 5, 6.
[115]. Etheridge’s Jerusalem and Tiberias, p. 71.
[116]. Etheridge, Ibid. p. 72.
[117]. Mosheim, Eccl. Hist., Cent. II., Part II., Ch. v, 1, 2.
[118]. Institutes, Book IV, chap, xvi, §37.
[119]. Dale’s “Christic Baptism,” pp. 430, 431.
[120]. See Alexander on Acts xiv, 5.
[121]. In Dale, Christic Baptism, p. 205.
[122]. Christic Baptism, p. 393.
[123]. Dale’s Christic Baptism, p. 162.
[124]. “Christic Baptism,” p. 158.
[125]. Pliny (Hist. Nat. vi, 35) states this kingdom of which Meroe, on an island in the Nile, was the chief city, to have been “now for a long time,” governed by queens, who transmitted to each other the name of Candace.
[126]. Alexander, in loco.
Transcriber’s Note
Spelling and punctuation, where printer or editorial errors were obvious, has been corrected.
Some idiosyncracies should be noted. In several captions, there is a period following the word ‘Sir’, as ‘Sir. Wm. Hamilton’, implying an abbreviation. This also appears once in the text, and once without the period. All are given here as printed. The variant spellings ‘sepulchre’ and ‘sepulcher’ are both used frequently, and are all retained.
The following table summarizes the resolution of any other errors. Errors in the formatting or punctuation of the index entries were corrected with no further comment here.
| [95.34] | But in order [?] adequate appreciation | sic: missing word? |
| [121.20] | And, when they left Eg[py/yp]t | Transposed. |
| [130.31] | about fifteen feet by seven and a half[,/.] | Replaced. |
| [172.20] | they s[ie/ei]ze | Transposed. |
| [189.23] | it may be, by traditon>, from the parents of the race | Added. |
| [192.7] | [the goddess of water].[’] | Added. |
| [211.24] | it is interpreted, “to the elbows,[”] | Added. |
| [220.21] | whilst Paul used the[ the] word | Removed. |
| [224.24] | Heb. viii, 6. | Removed. |
| [226.35] | or the favor of the rabble[,/.] | Replaced. |
| [235.5] | that two years afterw[e/a]rd the evangelist | Replaced. |
| [263.4] | I have kept the faith[?/!] | Replaced. |
| [276.19] | to involve his government in[./,] chaos, God in the mystery | Replaced. |
| [326.16] | [(](loutra) libations | Removed. |
| [334.16] | “quickened as to the spirit[./,]” | Replaced. |
| [340.12] | and his rest shall be glorious.”—Isa. xi, [1, ]10. | Removed. |
| [344.27] | So, the prop[eh/he]cy cited by Peter | Transposed. |
| [348.31] | obscuring of[ of] the subject | Removed. |
| [365.5] | [“]Likewise reckon ye also yourselves | Added. |
| [354.9] | That church had orginally incorporated | Added. |
| [392.27] | I have spoken unto you.[”] | Added. |
| [401.12] | the apostle repeat[a/e]dly and unqualifiedly asserted | Replaced. |
| [410.16] | and distributed a second cup[,/.] | Replaced. |
| [420.7] | Let him not become uncircumcised[.] | Added. |
| [431.13] | to observe all things whatso[e]ver | Added. |
| [436.13] | that believed on his name.”—J[no/oh]. i, 12. | Replaced. |
| [464.12] | signif[inif]icant | Removed. |
| [466.21] | unclean (akathartoi), and holy (hagioi[,/.]) | Replaced. |
| [474.24] | They [in-]include the Sinai constitution | Removed. |
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