Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-06-11
ACTION OF BAPTISM.


From the manner disciple" quotes
from the Lexicons and other authors
one would be led to believe that he
had never seen even the outside of
the books he quotes from. On page
55 Dr.. Carson says, Il have asserted
that baptizo has but one Specification.
My position is that it
always signifies to dip; never ex-
pressing anything but mode. Now
as have all the photographers and
commentators against me in this
opinion it will be necessary to say
a word or two with respect to the
authority of Lexicons. Carson then
proceeds to show that Lexicograph-
ers chad turn to serve" in giving
a sacred or scrlptural meaning" to
baptizo, and he excoriates them fear
fully for their blindness and want of
scholarship, and appeals from the
photographers and commentators to
the use of the word in the classics.
If 1 am not mistaken in the meaning
of ':Disciple's'' articles he is on pre-
cisely the same platform and posi-
ton as DIR. Carson, viz: That baptizo
is word of mode and has but one
meaning, never signifying anything
but dip or immerse Now I submit
that if all the Lexicograpers and
commentators are against Carson's
position, (as he asserts) then these
same authorities are all against 'Dis-
ciple's'' position. And disciple"
begins to feel the force of the antag-
onism, for in the paper of May 21st
he quietly gives up his ''dip or i'm
merse" and takes refuge behind the
word ssoverwhelm," which is fatal to
his 'saction of baptism and gives
away all he has been contending for.
"Dip" moves the object, but ''over-
whelm" moves the element and the
two words are diverse and antipodal.
Let us now look at the Lexicons
and see how fairly (a) disciple has
tuuOted from them and see what
grounds I have for saying the Lexi-
cons are against "dip or immerse" as
an '.action of Christian baptism" and
are on my side in this controversy.
I will quote only the Lexicons [ have
in my own library and which I can
show disciple" or any of his friends
should they wish to call at my study
1st Schrevelius-Baptizo, to merse
to wash, to cleanse. I'd Donegan-
Baptizo, to immerse repeatedly into
a liquid, to submerge, to soak thor
oughly, to saturate. Sd Parkhurst
I-Baptizo, To dip, immerse or plunge
in water. But in the New Testament
it occurs not strictly in this sense
unless so far as this is included IL
sense below. To baptize, to i'm
.merse in, or wash with, water il
token of publication from sin. 4tf
Pickering-Baptizo, to dip, immerse
submerge, plunge, overwhelm, tt
steep, to soak, to wet. In the New
Testament, to wash, to cleanse b,
washing, to perform ablutions as il
Mark IA. 5th Liddell and Scott
Baptizo, to dip repeatedly, dip under
to wet, to steep, to pour upon. New
Testament, to baptize. 9Th Schleus
ner-Baptizo, to immerse or dip into
to merse In water. But in this sens
it never occurs in the New TesSs
ment, but very frequently in Gree
Classic writings. I'd, to wash, t
cleanse, to purify with water. 1t S
occurs in Mark IA.
Now, courteous reader, compar
these quotations, copied direct fror
the Lexicons, with the same Lexicon
quoted by "Disciple" in his article
and notice how considerate "Disc
Pile" has been in keeping out of vie'
I the fact that when the Lexicons pre-
tend to give a New Testament meal
ing to the word they give ''wasl
: cleanse, purify with water as q II
Iligious rite; and that these sam
authorities introduced by Disciple
. himsel1 plainly say that ''dip or in