Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-10-15
THE LEDGER.
The Puzzled Dutchman.

Inc PuZZleu DNtcnhlan. |
To the Editor OF the Ledger.
In the LEDGER of Oct. 1st, / find
an article with the above title, hooked
by the editor from the scrap book OF
some prominent citizen Of Mexico.
I think [ could guess where that
appointment citizen" belongs and why
that particular scrap was put within
reach of convenient hooking,
However, that may be, L am glad
YES. GLAD as that puzzled Dutchman,
that the prominent citizen of Mexico,
left that scrap-book where it could
be used, and hat the editor, while
in a hooking hunor, fell upon that
particular article. For it gives me
the opportunity of exposing its spe-
ciousness and fallacies. I've met
that puzzled Dutchman'' before
this-a short time since L saw 1t IN
the hands of a Baptist preacher, in
the form of a tract and he was
chuckling over it at a lively rate.
The evident design of the author
Of that '.canard' of the puzzled
Dutchman" was to make the impress
sion that the into i'll Daniel So,
II. 20. and Ga. u, 16, q, and Rev.
22:14, is simply the Greek proposition
els, and, therefore, els signifies into
in the sense entrance in or conn
plete enyelopment.' But this error,
arising from either ignorance or
malice. vanishes when the reader Is
informed that in all the passages
quoted above land many others)
there is a proposition in ~composltlon
with the verb, and then another before
the noun. In all the references In
the book Daniel (Greek) the verb Is
embaHin. and means ''to cast in
So Daniel was cast in the lions den
before the proposition els had any
thing to do with him So the He
brew children were cast IN the fiery
furnace before the proposition els
is reached. so also in Rev 22:l4
we find the double proposition
When the Greek language wishes tc
express ''entrance or inness' there
is a very plain and distinct way OF
doing it-there are either the two
propositions en- and els, or els is re,
duplicated. And then the force Of
the verb cast (Greek, balo) IS moi
to be ignored. Oftentimes the force
of the verb continues with the thing
thrown or cast till it is taken an ano
then the els will supply the "to,,
In one of my articles last spring
called for a single passage in The
Greek where the proposition ets, usec
singly. meant ''into" in the sense O.
"entrance or envelopment." No at
tempt was made to reply. So /
seems that others, besides the Dutch
man, are puzzled ,
My Bible says nothing about JONAH
beng least into the whales belly,
but it does tell me that Sodom an'
Gomorrah got enough of fire ant
brimstone'' without having any et
about it-Gen. 1924. And then Il
Ps. 1I:6 we learn that the wicke'
will have s'snares, fire and brimston
and an horrible tempest rained Ut
on them, and the proposition Into
not be called into requisition. A
perverters of Gods word had bette
beware!
The entrance of the saved soul int
heaven does not depend on the singI
proposition. In John, 3:5; Math
1873; Acts, 14:22; I'd Peter, ILL
Rev, 21:27, and many other slmlla
passages we have the double els, c
the proposition in composition wit
the verb, and then before the noun
The same is true of eli IN the sens
of tout Of or "emergence from.
But there is no double els nor doub
ek in connection With Baptism
Hence, no ':into' o "out Of
that ordinance.
T. GALLAHEl
The gentleman we hooked Il
tract from is neither a Baptist n,
q preacher. He is a leading bu:
ness man of this city, aud we presun
will be very glad to get light on Il
puzzled" question.-CED. LEDGE