Excerpt from Scriptural View of the Mode of Baptism: In a Letter to an Inquirer Nor does the language of the Evangelist in describing the baptism of Jesus, prove that he was immersed. Mat thew says (ch. 3: that Jesus when he was baptized, went up from the water. In our translation it is - he went up straight way out OF the water. Every Greek scholar knows that the word ano, here translated, out q, generally signifies from, and cannot mean out of, ex cept by accident. If the Evangelist intended to describe Christ's rising ...
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Excerpt from Scriptural View of the Mode of Baptism: In a Letter to an Inquirer Nor does the language of the Evangelist in describing the baptism of Jesus, prove that he was immersed. Mat thew says (ch. 3: that Jesus when he was baptized, went up from the water. In our translation it is - he went up straight way out OF the water. Every Greek scholar knows that the word ano, here translated, out q, generally signifies from, and cannot mean out of, ex cept by accident. If the Evangelist intended to describe Christ's rising out of the water, he certainly has not used appropriate language. But if Jesus went merely to the edge of the river without stepping into the water at all, the expression of the Evangelist - he went upfront the wa ter - is perfectly natural. It describes his ascending the banks of Jordan, which were of considerable height above the water: Of course he ascended them when he left the margin of the river. There is, then, nothing in the ac. Count of this baptism, which proves, or even renders it probable, that Jesus was immersed all over in the water. The same remarks apply to the account of the baptism of the eunuch, recorded in Acts 8: 38. They went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch and he baptized him. And when they come-up out of the water, &c. The words translated into-wand out of -as every one knows, acquainted with the Greek lan guage, usually mean to and from. I know not why the translators have here rendered them, into and out of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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