By no other baptism can we all be baptized into one body. Water baptism diverts from this, one baptism into one body.
Farrar says: "That this first Pentecost marked an eternal moment in the history of mankind no reader of history will surely deny. Undoubtedly in every age since then the sons of God have to an extent, unknown before, been taught by the Spirit of God; undoubtedly since then to an extent unrealized before we may know that the Spirit of Christ dwelleth in us. Undoubtedly we may enjoy a nearer sense of union with God in Christ than was accorded to the saints of the old dispensation and a thankful certainty that we see the days which kings and prophets desired to see and did not see them, and hear the truths which they desired to hear and did not hear them, and that this new dispensation began henceforth in all its fulness."[114]
FOOTNOTES:
[68] Mark 1.2; Luke 3.4
[69] Luke 7.27; Jon. 3.28; Mat. 17.1, 8
[70] Mark 9.4, 8; Jon. 1.31
[71] Luke 1.80; Mat. 17.1, 8
[72] Mark 9.2, 8; Luke 9.28, 36
[73] Jon. 1.31
[74] Acts 10.28