Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-03-18

unee ofaR antiquity that the fmmer was the earli,
One who argues In this manner, never fails with
persons ofkuowedse. 10 bsfrdy the cause he ,Uould
offend and though, with respect 10 the vulgar,
bold assertions generally succeed as we'll as srgu.
men's, and sometimes be,te'; yet CANDID MISn
will always prspA,S 10 take the help ofrAIsrHoop,
even in the defence of truth. Lectures on Pulpit
Eloquence, Sect. 10, p, 3Oi. What rebuke one
Pedobsp'ist here gives to another.
On the passage in John 3, %; "And John also
was osptisng in Enon, I, Salim, because there
was much ca'er there" Mr. T.. SAYS. this should
be literally translated, not "m,ich ,cafer. hut many
rrafers," and these many waters were few "small
collections Of water" not sufficiently deep, in his
estimation, for immersing Now John Calvin, the
from these words il msy be inferred that baptism
was administer red by John and Chris, by plungng
the whole body under water" The learned end
piou. DR.. poddHge says, "surely nothing can be
more evident than that poiiu vidafu,) many wa.
tiers, signifies large quantity Of water, it being
sometimes used for the Euphra,es, Jer 81, 10 (Sep
tussin,) to which, I suppose, there may also be
an allusion, Rev. ls, l. Compare Eek. AZ, 2;
Rev. |. Is Is, .; 10, G, where The roice Of many
,coers does plainly signify the roaring of The high
Sea-" l. il not somewhat astonishing. tina, q mode
of speaking, which on oil other occasions means
much, should in case Of baptism signify very IT,
lie To such elaring adsurdi,ics will prejudice
and error drive their devo,ces.
let US now look a, l.. D. Is criticisms on the
Greek propositions en- and apo. He contends that
en- should be rendered by, of at, or near thus he
saws, Matt 3. 6 should read "they were baptised
Of him at Jordan" Excellt mt critic According
to the learned L. d. L., when person is in the
grave he is only at it when he is in the house
he is only at the door when he is in bed he is
only at the side Of it ; when man is drowned
in a river he is cnly drowned OF the edge when
man is in trouble, he is only at near or close by
trouble. hieory o prejudice! what can you
no, do. Come here, all ye skeptics, Mr.. l.. will
solve all dificulti,s for you. Daniel was not cast
into the Lions den bu, only at it, near it, close by
it. Jonah not in the great fish. but at it, near
it, close by il. Upon examination the rea,ier will
find that the proposition en- is rendered IN one
hundred times, for once BY any other word. II
occurs nearly two hundred times in Matthew. Mr..
l.. finds one or two places where it may be ren-
dered at, and therefore, MUST always be translated
al, where baptism is spoken Of MI l.. has fallen
into the same upon the word apo, which he
contends should be rendered f'om, and not out of.
The transstors have correctly rendered i, out Of
See Acts 8, 80. "And when they had come up
(dpo) out Of the water" See also Matt. 3, l6.
will rsnscribe few remarks on the classical
import Of these propositions, from the celebrated
Greek grammar Of the learned James Moore l.. l..
D., Professor Of Greek III Glasgow. "En denotes
that something is contained within certain and
limited place" "Apo denotes the departure, or the
distance Of one person or thing from the place Of
another" This is worth more than a whole col.
umn Of Is. criticisms on these words Is it not
greatly TO he lsmented, that even wise and good
men will depart from the obvious and natural
meaning Of words, and violate all correc, rules Of
interpretation, and be gully fsophis,ry of the most
pernicious tendency, aud thus become all things to
ail men, 10 save some from going to the Baptist
BERwIcK, March 10, ls43. w. S. II.
Ito be continued