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GOSPEL LESSONS.
No. 5.

Having fully established by the
highest authority among Greek schol-
ars that repentance and baptism as
stated in Acts 2:3S are form order
remission of sins, our next
step will be to show that the word
baptizo as used in that connection
and which has been rendered by
translators baptizo means immersion.
In this case we can only give you
authorities but we shall endeavor to
give such authorities as by common
consent occupy the highest positions
in biblical scholarship and biblical
criticism.
Our first witness is John Calvin :
THE word baptizo signifies to i'm
merse, and it is certain that INNER
sion was the practice of the ancient
church, Institutes Book 4, p. Is.
We next offer Martin Luther as 6
witness. He says baptism is Greek
word and may be translated INNER
sion, as when we dip something il
water that it may be wholly covered
And, although it is almost who'll,
abolished (for they do not dip th'
whole children but only pour littl'
water on them) they ought neverthe
less to be wholly immersed and thel
be Immediately drawn out, for tina
the etymolcgy of the word seems t.
demand. Works vol l, p. 1856.
Stand aside.
Hugo Groteus testifes: THAT thi
rite was wont to be performed b
immersion, and not by profusio1
appears both from the propriety c
1.-THE word and from the places chose
for its administration
This witness has some sense. Fc
what would anybody go to a strea'
of water or a river just to sprinkle
| few drops of water on a mans hea
when common bucketful or pitcl
er would hold enough water
sprinkle a whole meeting house flu
of people? The absurdity of tt
, thing grins through the thin coat
) plaster sectarian infdelity has daube
over it.
: DR.. Amthon, come forward.
The DIR. was O member of the Ep
copal church and said to be the be
!, Greek scholar in his day in Americ
Replying to DR.. Parmley he sail
. "The primary meaning of the wo
(baptizo) is to dip or immerse and
secondary meanings, if it ever ha
any, always refer in some way to
same leading idea. Sprinkllng, ct
t are entirely out of the question:
= OF classic authors hear the folio
ing: Aristotle in his work concel
N ing Wonderful Reports, vol. G., p. IL
" They say that the Phoenicians "
inhabit the so-called Gadira, saill
ID four days outside of the Pillars
Hercules, with an east wind, come
certain desert places full of rusl
r. and seaweed; which, when it IS {
- tide, are not immersed (baptizo)
when it is flood tide are overflow
: (katakluzo.)
Polybius in his History bo
xxxvi chap. 3:7, speaking of TAX
the sword-fish says: "And ever
the spear falls into the sea it is
lost for it is composed of both
II and pine; so that when the oa
n part is immersed (baptizo) by
" weight the rest of it is buoyed
and easily recovered
Also, in speaking of the Ro'
army passing the swollen Tribia
l. saws: They passed through
l0' difficulty, the foot soldiers being
mersed (baptizo) as far as t
breasts.
We have many more authorize
this point, but deem it unneces
in " to spend more time in citing the1
Hear the New Testament:
IA "Then went out to him Jerus
and all Judea, and all the re
round about the Jordan and
~ immersed (baptizo) by him In
~ Jordon, confessing their s
~. Mat. iii, $50
nm, And John was immersing <baE
est. in Aenon, near to Salim, be-
there was much water there
III, 70.
We repeat, what use had Joh
much cater to sprinkle the peop
.n Buried with him IN imme
(baptisma) wherein also ye are
with him through the faith Q
ner Operation of God who hath !
. him from the dead
~ Now hear the testimony {
IL Greek and Latin Fathers:
I'D Basil, Archbishop OF Cae
,a born in Palestine, 4. D., 32e
md his work on the Holy Spirit, he
a. .Imitating the burial OF Chr