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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... word louo means to wash the body, and uipto to wash parts of the body; but these words are not used, because washing is not what Christ meant. Rantizo means to sprinkle, and if sprinkling were baptism this would have been the word above all others; but it was never so used. Keo means to pour; but pouring is not baptism, and so this word was never used to describe the ordinance. Katharizo means to purify, but is not used for the ordinance. The facts are clear and the reasoning conclusive. STOURDZA, the Russian scholar and diplomat, says: " The church of the West has then departed from the example of Jesus Christ; she has obliterated the whole sublimity of the exterior sign. Baptism and immersion are identical. Baptism by aspersion is as if one should sav immersion bv aspersion, or any other absurdity of the same nature." Considerations, Orthodox Ch., p. 87. THE BAPTISM OF JESUS. The baptism of Jesus in the Jordan is thus described: " And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water." (Matt. 3: 16.) And again, it is recorded tiiat Jesus "was baptized of John in Jordan; and straightway coming up out of the water." (Mark 1:10.) He certainly would not go down into Jordan to have water sprinkled on him. Nobody believes he would. He was baptized in Jordan, not with Jordan. Moreover, he was baptized, that is, immersed, not rantized, that is, sprinkled. Bishop Taylor says: " The custom of the ancient churches was not sprinkling, but immersion, in pursuance of the meaning of the word in the commandments and the example of our blessed Saviour." Commentary on Matthew S: 16. Macknioht says: "Christ submitted to be baptized, that is, to be buried under water, and to be raised out of it again, as an emblem of his future death and...