[11]. I Cor. 15:29.
[12]. Moses 6:60.
[13]. 2 Kings 5:1-14.
[14]. James 5:14, 15.
[15]. Acts 2:29.
[16]. 1 Cor. 7:14.
[17]. Mark 10:14; Luke 18:16.
ARTICLE THIRTY-THREE.
Meaning And Mode Of Baptism.
The Lesser Suggests the Greater.—When Jesus told Nicodemus that man must be born of Water and of the Spirit, he virtually declared the meaning of baptism and prescribed the mode of its administration. It was to prepare the way before a greater principle, that Christ taught and exemplified the principle of baptism. He compared it to birth, the entry into mortal life; and this pointed to resurrection, the entry into immortal glory.