Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-02-11

See Hprpe's Introd., vol 3 n. 3s. The Jordan had
| high bau%s aud henc., In the Prophet gereni n
49, 10. the lion is saidto come ap from, the swell.
NAL, coming out d tho water, but up frsm its VI
ciniiy. Again apo is m Mauhew ,, l6, translated
"om Of" bu, il shond he translated, simply,
from. Let us eDdeovc to grove this assertion
The wNd ape occurs, for example, Acts, 10. 10,
-Whcn the angel who delivered Peter our oS Pr.
sou, hadeondoc'od him ,hroush the Mon gate and
one street, he forthwith departed from him" Bu,
now if we must uansiste, cst Of Jordan, th,n, TO
be consistent, we must necessarily 0aads,e the
same word, apo, thus: The angel departed euf Of
Peter, which, Of course, does no. apply tho an
gel At his side, simply went away. To save room,
we omit other examples. The Baptism ofJesus
hy John. siier these explanations, may be thus
viewed Christ Is our priest and king. This is
too well understood and known to need an iilus,ts
ton. These classes Of men. among the Jews,
were consecra,ed by the srusion Of oil on their
heads. Thus. Aaron. the priest, Exodus 10. 30,)
and Saul David (i Sam. 10, l, i6, l3) and Other
kings, were consecraed. II is in sllusion to this
mode of formally setting apsr, priest or king, ,ha,
Isaiah says, Chsp. 6, I, "Thr Lord hath anont.
ed me-" &C.. iha, l., Christ. Hence he was called
Chri,t which is a Greek word, and like the He.
brew wnrd Messiah, signifies, "he anoned one"
Before Chr at assumed The office Of public teach.
er. he dcsirel 10 be officially consecraled as priest
pnd king, hy the hand Of an acknowledged mes
senger Of God not, indeed a, f this wa essential
TO bm hut in order TO comply wi he rsiah'i hrd
customs or, rs hr himself expresses i TO falfl al
righteousness. He went 10 John. Who was in the
vicinity Of the river, in order 10 procure water with
ease, IN vessel, whenever he wns re1u sted TO
| tsptse. Christ knee'ed down, perhaps. and then,
to signify the act Of amounting, he took water,
(for neither oil nor water had any peculiar spirit.
ual efficacy. and were hence Of equal value,) and
poured il on the head of Saviour, sienifying,
perhaps, likewise the out.Pouring of the spirit,
| which at the time did descend. Ater his bsp-
tsm, Jesus asceBded, or climbed up the scclivity,
and went simply away from the region Of jordan.
We read here Of no dipping. of nothing that
| could favor such an idea. Why should John have
dipped our Saviour Certainly no, in alluson to
the burial Of the latter for he vas no, yet dead
and hence, had he dipped him, it would have seem.
ed 90 mu,h out of place, if he had administered
10 him The sacrament OF the Lords supper before il
was Instituted, ....
There is one expression in Matthew 3, l6. which
needs a passing remark. The translation she
shall baptze you with the Holy Ghost" has beer
occasionally imIuened but 1t is n most success
fol version. When we read in Matthew &c, SO
! (se Ike an instance drsgnedly from the sam,
writor) ",hev h,t take the sword shall perish
with the sword We see at once that Nth OF by car
h. the only word appropriately prefxed to sword
The same word is in the former passage pref He,
to Holy Ghost, and hence il is correctly render't
, uiM or by the Holy Ghost
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