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| Times ana means TO wash; to wash the
whole body, to bathe. III as some say,
baptism means to wash, here was Just
the word to express it, but this word is
never applied to the ordinance, because
washing was not meant. Nipto--
means, in like manner, to wash the
extremities as the face, hands, or feet,
as distinguished from bathing the
whole body. This word is found sew
enteen times, but is never applied to
baptism. Why not, if little water
applied to the face may be baptism?
RantiZo-means to sprinkle, and is
| found in the New Testament four times.
This would have been the very word
used to designate baptism, if as some
| say, that ordinance is properly per-
formed by sprinkling But this word
! is in no instance So used Why not?
| Because sprinkling is not baptism
| Keo--means to pour, and is found
many times in its various combinations,
but is never applied to baptism If
! baptism is pouring water OH the candi-
; date, WHY was not this word sometimes
: used to express it? Katharizo-means
to purify, to cleanse and is found thir-
: ty times, but never applied to the or
dinance of baptism. If, as some say,
/ the ordinance means to purify, this
word would have expressed it. Let it
| be asked again, why did Christ and
His apostles, of all the words in the
Greek language, select always and
only, that one which means strictly
and positively dipping, or immersion
and nothing else, to designate the or
dinance which He commanded and
they administered? Simply and only,
because baptism meant dipping or inn
mersing and nothing else.
You say Johns baptism was not inn
mersion for the following reasons: 1st;
Then went out to him Jerusalem and
all .Iudea and were all baptized by him
in Jordan. You say those that went
to be baptized were more than John
could have baptized during his minis
try. Now you know as we'll as do
all the people did not go. John 81;
But when he saw many of the Phari-
sees and Sadducees come to his baptism
he said unto them; go ye generation
Of vipers who hath warned you to flee
the wrath to come"
Now Brother SoutbWick you know
these Pharisees and Sadduccess formed
large portion of the population of that
country and none of them were baptized
nor went TO be haptiz q. 1t does not
mean every man, woman, and ohild went,
but good representation OF all the peo-
pie. This you will not deny. End You
say John did not immerse, but baptized
with water; Il come baptizing with
water;' Again he that sent me to bap-
tiZe w tn water, and he that cometh after
me shall baDtizc you with the holy ghost
and with fire Now these are the scrip
lures you have produced to prove your
generic term, or the application of Water
and you ought to be ashamed Of Xanrself
t0--attelaPs e 4 { tteHtt 70 impose upon reading
public in any such manner. You base
your whole argument on the proposition
with. If you will turn to Bullions'
Greek Grammar page ITO. you will get
the proper definition. John l-23; |
proper rendering; which you know as
udati;' the rendering of this is; | indeed
baptize you IN water. Verses 81 and 33
are rendered in the same way. Mark l 8
the proposition is rot only Ell but els,
which means into. So those who were
baptized were not only dipped in Jordan,
but into Jordan. When John baptized he
performed a certain act. The Bible tells
lis that Jesus and his disciples, wh' II they
baptized performed the same act and in
the commission lie commanded the same
act to be performed upon all who believed
on the gospel, the same Greek word,
baptize was used in every case, The
word for pouring or sprinkling is never
used with reference to the ordinance of
baptism.
You state further, that the word Bap-
tie legitimately signifies the application
of water by any way as we'll as by i'm
mersiOn, and if so, sprinkling is as much
baptism as dipping. These are more
of your bare assertions, and it would be
useless to ask you for proof. DR.. Barnes
says that the word baptize means not to
sprinkle but to dip. Prof Stuart, admits
this to be it's prevalent and common sig
MITIGATION. DR.. Chalmers says its mean
ing is to dip and that it was immersion
which was practiced in the early churches.
Mcknight and all the PedoBaDtist ID.
Ds'. of any note agree with the leXicOns
in giving immersion rs he true meaning
of the word baptize and agree that it was
the practice OF the apostolic churches,
vet in the face Of all this evidence you
say the word means both to sprinkle and
pour.
Now Bro. Soutnwick, why not lay
aside your preconceiyed dogmas and give
things just as they are, let the people
know the truth and do the right: be
man and acknowledge that sprinkling
and pouring is Romish tradition and
not a commandment. You speak of the
Wilderness and Bethabara being places
without water and immersion was i'm
Dossible, Now don't YOU know the will
derness, Bethabara and 10 dan are one,
in the same place. The Jews called any
sparingly settled place a wilderness;
BeIhabara was ford or ferry house on
the east bank of the Jordan. So when
John baptized in the wilderness ana at
Bethabara, lie was also baptizing in the
Jordan.
Yon ask why seven-eights OF the
Christian world sprinkle and pour if it is
not bible baptism, l simply answer by
saying seven-eights do not practice it.
You hold that Catholics and Lutberans
are not christians; now if you will give
NE all the baptized persons out of the
rest of the denominations you will find
you are decidedly wrong in your calcu-
lation, and three fOurths Of those who
practice sprinkling and pouring acknowl-
edge it is tradition practiced by Pedo-
baptiSts. Nine-tenths of your ministers
have been immersed and yet refuse to
immerse their subjects. Shame to the
man who would practice on others that
he would not accept himself.
If you have another speech you can
COPY, let us hear from you again.
3. HILLMAN.