A Bible History of Baptism

by Samuel J. Baird

INDEX.

• Ablution, Mode of domestic, page 119.
• Abrahamic covenant, p. [37].
  • “My covenant,” p. [43].
  • Everlasting, p. [40], [43].
  • Circumcision, its seal, p. [40], [58].
  • An adumbration of the covenant of grace, p. [40].
• 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].
  • And circumcision, p. [58].
  • Originated in the Old Testament, p. [21].
  • Of Israel, p. [25], [29].
  • Levitical, p. [25].
  • Of Naaman, p. [157].
  • History of Christian, p. [424].
  • On Pentecost, p. [440].
  • Its symbolic meaning, p. [92], [446].
• 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].
  • Conant’s definitions, p. [155], [347].
  • Kendrick’s admissions, p. [349].
  • It sounds best! p. [352].
  • It knows not the resurrection, p. [347].
• 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].
  • Its two functions, p. [274], [284], [297].
  • His administration, p. [338].
• Church defined, p. [49].
  • Origin of its name, p. [51].
  • Its charter, p. [53].
• 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];
  • of Jerusalem, p. [394];
  • of Nice, p. [281];
  • of Trent, p. [431].
• Covenant, Abrahamic, p. [37];
  • of Sinai, p. [42].
  • Its champions, Elijah and Elisha, p. [166];
  • John, p. [230].
  • It was the marriage, p. [37], [49].
  • It and the better covenant, p. [224].
  • The Messenger of the covenant, p. [223].
• 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].
  • The rites of cleansing, p. [68].
  • The meaning, p. [96].
• 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].
  • Israel’s intercession for them, p. [47], [147].
  • Graffed in, p. [418].
• 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].
  • None in its figures, p. [24].
  • Not by the priests, p. [128].
  • Nor by the people, p. [115], [116], [119], [134].
  • Nor by the Pharisees, p. [208].
  • The facilities unavailable, p. [126].
  • Its incongruities, p. [202].
  • Its origin, p. [80].
• India. Immersion thence, p. [80].
• Infant baptism,
  • — in Israel, p. [81], [82],
  • — among the Aztecs, p. [191],
  • — among the Romans, p. [187],
  • — in the Christian church, p. [461], [466], [471].
• “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].