Chapter CIII: Conclusion

And now, at the goal, we turn to survey the broad field of our explorations, and to note the accumulated results. From this vantage point, many things appear in a light of peculiar instructiveness and beauty. But one feature stands out in proportions of loftiness, and glory, which cast all else into the shade of insignificance. As with rapt spirits, we gaze, the high throne is revealed where sits the Son of man,—his human form robed in the Father’s glory,—his countenance blending the infinite majesty of God, with the fullness of grace and truth,—his brow adorned with a diadem of many crowns, and all power in heaven and earth, in his hand. The heavens are astonished at the presence of his glory, and the adoring angels, prostrate, await his bidding. The fullness of the Spirit is his; and his office thus exalted it is, to baptize us sinners with that Spirit,—to give us thus, repentance and remission of sins and sanctifying grace, and to raise us up from the dead and make us sit with him in the heavenly places where he reigns. This is the central sun of the system which we have explored. From this baptism of the Spirit all the ordinances here examined, derive their instructive light and beauty. It is the original,—the heavenly pattern whence their form and office were divinely transcribed. It is, therefore, the rule and standard to which all baptismal rites and doctrines must be brought.

Tried by this rule, the figment of baptismal regeneration stands exposed in naked falsehood and dishonor; arrogating to men a share of the sovereign prerogatives of our glorious Baptizer; subordinating the functions of his grace to their will and wisdom, their fidelity and zeal.

The rite of immersion too,—already discountenanced by the united voice of the Scriptures,—when brought to this supreme and final test, is utterly wanting.

It is discountenanced by the transaction at Sinai, in which the church was separated out of the world and consecrated to God by a baptism of sprinkled water and blood.

It is discountenanced by the rites which certified and sealed the restoration of the healed leper to the communion of Israel.

It is discountenanced by the water of purifying with which the Levites were sprinkled, in their consecration to the service of God’s sanctuary.

It is discountenanced by the ordinance which appointed the water of separation, to be sprinkled as the ordinary and perpetuated form of the Sinai baptism, for sealing admission to the benefits of the Sinai covenant.

It is excluded by the declaration of the son of Sirach that the sprinkling of the unclean with the water of separation was a baptizing.

It is discountenanced by the sprinkled baptism of the thirty-two thousand infants and youths of Midian, whereby they were received into the fold of the covenant and the church.

It is condemned by every voice in the Psalms and the prophets which breathes a sense of the sinner’s need, or anticipates the blessings of Messiah’s grace, in the language of these ordinances.

It is excluded by the explicit testimony of the apostle Paul, that these ordinances were baptisms.

It is condemned by the implacable war which it of necessity wages against the identity of the church from the day of the assembly at Sinai,—by its repudiation of the Old Testament church—the church of Moses and the prophets, which was for fifteen centuries a lone beacon light among the nations, God’s only witness amid the gloom of thick darkness which enshrouded the world.

It is discountenanced by the voice of John’s baptism which heralded and symbolized the outpouring of the Spirit on Pentecost; and is excluded by all the circumstances of his ministry, which show that he could not have immersed his disciples, and that he would not have done it, though he could.

It is discountenanced by the whole style of the evangelists and apostles, who speak of baptism and its relations in the language of the Old Testament, and recognize it as a symbol of the outpouring of Pentecost.

It is excluded by the records of Christian baptisms as given by Luke, which, beginning with the three thousand of Pentecost and ending with the jailer of Philippi and his house, present an array of difficulties in the way of immersion, which are severally inexplicable, and together overwhelming.

It is condemned by its association with the kindred denial of the place which God has assigned to the family and the children in his fold and his covenant; and by all the facts which demonstrate their God-given and inalienable rights therein.

It is utterly condemned by the fact that it maims the symmetry and completeness of the sacramental system of the Christian church. Whilst the Old Testament sacraments exhibit in just proportions every part and feature of the plan of grace, and whilst the genuine ordinances of the New Testament, in like proportions, abbreviate the whole, exhibiting in the holy supper the sacrament of Christ’s humiliation and sacrifice, and in baptism that of his exaltation and glory, his power and grace,—the system in question, recognizes indeed, with us, in the Lord’s supper, the memorial of Christ’s suffering and death, but in baptism can see nothing but the symbol of his burial, and so leaves him and all our hopes shut up and sealed in the sepulchre of Joseph.

It is signally discountenanced by the remarkable fact that in every rite and every figure in which the Scriptures represent the active exercise by the Messiah of his official functions, the form of action is affusion, whether it be with the blood of atonement at the sanctuary of Israel,—the water, mingled with ashes or blood, which sprinkled the unclean,—the anointing oil poured upon the head; or the fires of justice rained down from heaven.

But why dwell upon minor particulars! The rite in question is condemned and excluded by the whole tenor of the Scriptures, which demonstrate that _baptizo_ as there used _does not_ mean, to immerse, and which reveal no vestige of other testimony in behalf of the rite, but everywhere show evidence abundant and conclusive against it.

But the capital and paramount consideration still remains, in the fact that this rite will not assimilate with, nor recognize the baptism which Christ dispenses from his throne. It ignores the exaltation whence that baptism descends, and refuses to testify of its outpouring of grace. And hence, although administered with the use of the words, it is not in the sense intended by the Lord Jesus, baptism “into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost;” for its doctrine has no relation to those blessed Persons, nor to our union with them. It is wholly occupied with another theme. Whilst the true baptism exultingly points upward to the throne of Christ’s glory, this rite looks downward ever to the grave.

To our readers we leave the question,—What one trait or characteristic of Scriptural baptism is traceable in this rite of immersion, in doctrine, or in form?

In entire consistency with a spirit of true Christian love and fellowship toward our brethren of the Baptist churches, we can not but realize an indignant revolt against this rite, so imperious in its claims, so devoid of evidence, so hostile to the true baptism of the Christian church, so efficient in creating division therein,—this rite in the zeal of which, those who reject it have been denied any part in the church of God, or place at his table, or portion in his covenant. Not such the ordinance which her glorious Head has bestowed upon his church, nor such the principles which he has taught her to cherish;—an ordinance in which is shown forth and celebrated the glory of his exaltation and his grace,—an ordinance which baptizes us into his name and that of the blessed Godhead, by setting forth the doctrine of that Godhead and of our union with it in Christ by the Spirit,—an ordinance which seals upon the brows of our babes that same blessing which they received in His own arms and from His own hands, in the days of his flesh;—and principles which teach us to recognize and embrace in the bonds of love and the fellowship of the covenant and of the church all those who in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their Lord and ours, even though they may grievously err respecting outward rites and forms.

Now to Him, the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory, for ever. Amen.

SCRIPTURES
ILLUSTRATED IN THE FOREGOING PAGES.

GENESIS.
— i, 26, p. 268;
— ii, 10, p. 32;
— iii, 15, p. 41;
— xii, 1-3, p. 37;
— xv, 1+, p. 38;
— xvii, 1-21, p. 39;
— xvii, 7, p. 59;
— xxii, 16-18, p. 41;
— xxxvii, 31, p. 158.

EXODUS.
— vi, 2-8, p. 42;
— xix, 3-5, p. 43;
— xix, 3-21, p. 27, 43, 45;
— xix, 5, p. 45;
— xix, 6, p. 46;
— xx, 24, p. 164;
— xxiv, 5, 8, p. 26, 29;
— xxv, 21, p. 54;
— xxv, 40, p. 128;
— xl, 12, p. 131, 133.

LEVITICUS.
— i, 9, p. 134;
— xiii, 45, 46, p. 63;
— xiv, 7-9, p. 66;
— xiv, 8, 9, p. 114;
— xxiii, 36, p. 148.

NUMBERS.
— vi, 9, p. 114;
— vi, 18, p. 115;
— viii, 7, p. 114;
— xix, 1-22, p. 96;
— xix, 2-19, p. 68, 73, 96;
— xix, 12, 13, 19, p. 168;
— xxix, 12-38, p. 144;
— xxxi, 19-24, p. 82;
— xxxi, 23, p. 138.

DEUTERONOMY.
— iv, 10, p. 51;
— xvi, 13-15, p. 148;
— xxi, 3-9, p. 123;
— xxi, 12, p. 114.

2 KINGS.
— iii, 11, p. 123;
— v, 10, 14, p. 157.

JOB.
— ix, 30, 31, p. 111, 158.

PSALM.
— viii, 4-8, p. 269;
— li, 2-10, p. 61.

ISAIAH.
— i, 16,17, p. 116;
— vi, 5-7, p. 64;
— xix, 19, p. 154;
— xxi, 4, p. 295;
— lii, 15, p. 140.

EZEKIEL.
— xvi, 8, 9, p. 74;
— xxii, 24, p. 89;
— xxxvii, 1-14, p. 301;
— xxxvii, 12-15, p. 94;
— xlvii, 1-12, p. 32, 33.

HAGGAI.
— ii, 11, 14, p. 227.

ZECHARIAH.
— xiv, 8, p. 34, 148, 151.

MALACHI.
— iii, 2, 3, p. 287;
— iv, 1-4, p. 291;
— iv, 4, p. 243.

MATTHEW.
— iii, 5, 6, p. 233;
— iii, 11, p. 241, 284;
— iii, 13-15, p. 247;
— xvii, 3, p. 230;
— xviii, 1-5, p. 462;
— xix, 13-15, p. 463;
— xx, 20-23, p. 258;
— xxvi, 28, p. 225;
— xxvii, 24, p. 123;
— xxviii, 19, 20, p. 380, 424, 431, 435, 439.

MARK.
— i, 4, p. 318;
— vii, 1-4, p. 210, 216;
— vii, 3, 4, p. 21, 210;
— ix, 4, p. 230;
— ix, 36, p. 462;
— x, 13-16, p. 463;
— xvi, 15, 16, p. 380, 424, 437.

LUKE.
— i, 17, p. 228;
— ii, 22, p. 85;
— iii, 16, p. 284;
— iii, 21, 22, p. 254;
— vii, 37, 38, 44, p. 124, 125;
— ix, 31, p. 230;
— ix, 46-48, p. 462;
— xi, 29, p. 214;
— xi, 38, p. 21, 209, 214;
— xii, 49-53, p. 265;
— xviii, 15-17, p. 463;
— xxiv, 44-46, p. 100.

JOHN.
— i, 33, p. 280;
— ii, 18-22, p. 101;
— iii, 5, p. 384;
— iii, 23, p. 360;
— iv, 14, p. 308;
— vii, 37, 38, p. 308;
— ix, 4, p. 109;
— xi, 25, 26, p. 92, 95;
— xiv, 16,17, 25, 26, p. 277;
— xv, 26, p. 277, 281;
— xvi, 7-15, p. 277;
— xvii, 22, p. 320;
— xx, 17, p. 272.

ACTS.
— ii, 2, p. 299;
— ii, 3, p. 310;
— ii, 4, p. 313;
— ii, 38, p. 433;
— viii, 36-39, p. 451;
— ix, 18, p. 454;
— x, 47, p. 455;
— xv, 10, p. 406;
— xvi, 14, 15, p. 472;
— xvi, 30-34, p. 473;
— xvi, 33, p. 456;
— xviii, 18, p. 399;
— xix, 1-7, p. 429;
— xix, 2, p. 315;
— xix, 4, p. 318, 447;
— xxii, 16, p. 453.

ROMANS.
— vi, 1-11, p. 364;
— vi, 4, p. 320;
— xi, 17-24, p. 418, 422.

1 CORINTHIANS.
— i, 16, p. 474;
— vii, 14, p. 466;
— x, 1, 2, p. 453;
— xii, 13, p. 357;
— xv, 4, p. 100;
— xv, 25-27, p. 269;
— xv, 29, p. 170.

2 CORINTHIANS.
— iii, 2, 3, 6, p. 382.

EPHESIANS.
— iv, 3-16, p. 330;
— iv, 5, p. 333;
— v, 25-27, p. 390.

COLOSSIANS.
— ii, 9-13, p. 371.

TITUS.
— iii, 4-7, p. 323.

HEBREWS.
— ii, 5-8, p. 269;
— iv, 4-9, p. 65;
— vi, 7-9, p. 35;
— vi, 17-20, p. 41;
— ix, 8, 9, p. 103;
— xiii, 11-13, p. 97.

1 PETER.
— ii, 9, p. 469;
— iii, 17-22, p. 333.

1 JOHN.
— v, 18, 19, p. 110.

REVELATION.
— i, 12, 13, p. 311;
— xxii, 1, 2, p. 32.

INDEX.

Ablution, Mode of domestic, page 119. Abrahamic covenant, p. 37. “My covenant,” p. 43. Everlasting, p. 40, 43. Circumcision, its seal, p. 40, 58. An adumbration of the covenant of grace, p. 40. Administration of the great Baptizer, p. 338. _Agora_,—the market, p. 214. Akiva, Rabbi, p. 213. Alexander, Dr. Addison, quoted, p. 287, 301, 310, 453. Ambrose on Levitical baptism, p. 194. Angel of his presence, p. 223. Anointing of Christ, p. 254. Apocrypha, their value, p. 153. Aristophanes quoted, p. 186, 325. Armstrong quoted, p. 259. Ashes of the red heifer, p. 68, 98. Ashes of calves, at Rome, p. 185. Assembly, Day of the, p. 51. Athenaeus quoted, p. 325. Augustine quoted, p. 303. Aztec baptism of Infants, p. 191.

Babylonian Gemara, p. 78. Babylonian rabbinic schools, p. 78, 81. Baptism—Argument from the real, p. 343. And circumcision, p. 58. Originated in the Old Testament, p. 21. Of Israel, p. 25, 29. Levitical, p. 25. Of Naaman, p. 157. History of Christian, p. 424. On Pentecost, p. 440. Its symbolic meaning, p. 92, 446. Baptism of fire, p. 284. Baptism of the Holy Ghost, p. 273, 277, 299, 322, 331. Baptism of Repentance and remission, p. 318, 331, 447. Baptism of Jesus by John, p. 247. “Baptism that I am baptized with,” p. 257. _Baptisma_ and _Baptismos_, p. 156. Baptisms, Divers, imposed on Israel, p. 22, 103. Baptisms of things, p. 136, 219. Baptismal formula. There is none, p. 438. Baptismal regeneration, p. 377. “Baptized for the dead,” p. 170. “Baptized from the dead,” p. 169. Baptized into Christ, p. 321, 332, 368. Baptized into one body, p. 357. Baptized into Moses, p. 350, 457. Baptizing administration of Christ, p. 338. Baptizing office of Christ, p. 273. _Baptizo_, p. 153. Conant’s definitions, p. 155, 347. Kendrick’s admissions, p. 349. It sounds best! p. 352. It knows not the resurrection, p. 347. _Baptizōntai_ and _rantizōntai_, p. 216. Barthelemi, Abbe, quoted, p. 184. “Believeth and is baptized,” p. 437. Blood of Sprinkling, p. 30. Blood and water, and blood alone, p. 97. “Born of water and of the Spirit,” p. 384. Brahminism the source of ritual immersion, p. 80. Breath of Christ—the Spirit, p. 299. Bryant’s Odyssey quoted, p. 127. “Buried by baptism,” p. 364. “Buried in baptism,” p. 371.

Calvin on the baptizing commission, p. 424. Canaan, Office of the land of, p. 48. Candlestick, Seven-branched, p. 311. Carson quoted, p. 23, 89, 205, 368. Charter of the church, p. 53. Childbirth uncleanness, p. 62. Children and Christ, p. 461. Children clean, holy, p. 466. Children of Midian baptized, p. 81. Christ did not institute baptism, p. 428. Christ and the children, p. 461. Christian baptism one with John’s, p. 424. Christian fathers on Levitical baptism, p. 192. Christ’s baptism by John, p. 247. It sealed him Surety of the covenant, p. 252. Christ’s “baptism that I am baptized with,” p. 257. Christ’s baptizing office, p. 273. Its two functions, p. 274, 284, 297. His administration, p. 338. Church defined, p. 49. Origin of its name, p. 51. Its charter, p. 53. Church and children, p. 461, 466. Church of Israel, p. 49, 411, 441. The Gentiles graffed in, p. 418. Circe, Ulysses’ bath in her palace, p. 127. Circumcision. Its office, p. 24, 58, 373. Circumcision and Baptism, p. 58. Common Prayer Book on baptism, p. 354. Conant on _baptizo_, p. 155, 347. Converts of Pentecost. Their character, p. 444. Were baptized with water, p. 440. Cornelius’ baptism, p. 432, 455. Council, of Ephesus, p. 281; of Jerusalem, p. 394; of Nice, p. 281; of Trent, p. 431. Covenant, Abrahamic, p. 37; of Sinai, p. 42. Its champions, Elijah and Elisha, p. 166; John, p. 230. It was the marriage, p. 37, 49. It and the better covenant, p. 224. The Messenger of the covenant, p. 223. Cyril of Alexandria, on Levitical baptism, p. 195.

Dr. Dale quoted, p. 279, 441, 443, 451. “Day of the assembly,” p. 51. A day, a symbol of a lifetime, p. 109. Dead. Defilement by, p. 62. The rites of cleansing, p. 68. The meaning, p. 96. Dead Sea, as a type, p. 32, 34. Didymus Alexandrinus, p. 378. Divers baptisms imposed on Israel, p. 22. What were they? p. 103.

Ebrard quoted, p. 294. _Ecclēsia_. Origin of the name, p. 51. Egypt and Israel, p. 179. Egyptian bathing, p. 120. Egyptian baptism, p. 189. Elders. Their origin, p. 53. Eleusinian mysteries, p. 188. Elijah and Elisha, champions of the covenant, p. 166, 229. Elijah and John, p. 229. Ellicott (Bishop) on _loutron_, p. 323. End of the Baptist argument, p. 374. England, Church of—Baptistic, p. 323, note; 354. Enon, The Springs, p. 360. Etheridge quoted, p. 78, 80, 169, 417, 418. Ethiopian eunuch, p. 451. Euripides quoted, p. 186, 187. Eusebius quoted, p. 417. Evidence of O. T. summed, p. 196.

Family and the church, p. 53. Fathers of the church, on Levitical baptism, p. 192; on the old covenant and the new, p. 377. Feet. Their typical meaning, p. 134. Their washing, p. 124. Festival of pouring water, p. 143. It and the Eleusinia, p. 189. Figure of immersion not in the Old Testament, p. 23. Fire, The Baptism of, p. 284. The manner of it, p. 296. Formula of Baptism, p. 434, 438. Furniture and utensils baptized, p. 136, 219.

Ganges. Immersion thence, p. 80. Gemara of Babylonia, p. 78; of Jerusalem, p. 78. Gentiles, place reserved in the Sinai covenant, p. 46. Israel’s intercession for them, p. 47, 147. Graffed in, p. 418. Gentile purifyings, p. 8, 181, 189, 191. Godhead. Order of precedence, p. 274. Gospel in the Old Testament baptism, p. 95. Greek bath, p. 121, 127, 200, 207, 324. Their purifyings, p. 181. Grote, on Greek purifyings, p 181.

Hair shaved, p. 102, 114, 399. Hakkodesh, Rabbi Judah, p. 78. Hebrew-Christian church, p. 411. Hellenistic Greek, p. 151. Herodotus on Greek purifyings, p. 182. Hillel and Shammai on proselyte baptism, p. 79. Homer quoted, p. 127, 325. Household and church, p. 53, 461.

Imitations of baptism by the heathen, p. 8, 178, 189.
Immersion. None in the Old Testament ritual, p. 23.
None in its figures, p. 24.
Not by the priests, p. 128.
Nor by the people, p. 115, 116, 119, 134.
Nor by the Pharisees, p. 208.
The facilities unavailable, p. 126.
Its incongruities, p. 202.
Its origin, p. 80.
India. Immersion thence, p. 80.
Infant baptism,
— in Israel, p. 81, 82,
— among the Aztecs, p. 191,
— among the Romans, p. 187,
— in the Christian church, p. 461, 466, 471.
“Into Christ,” and “into the name of Christ,” p. 365, 434.
“Into the name,” p. 431.
“Into the name of Christ,” and, of the Three, p. 435.
Israel a priest kingdom, p. 46.
Israel at John’s coming, p. 225.
Israel compared with the Christian church, p. 305.
Issues. Unclean by, p. 62.
The cleansing, p. 69.

Jailer of Philippi, p. 456. Jerome on Levitical baptism, p. 194. Jerusalem council, p. 394. Jerusalem Gemara, p. 78. Jesus, baptized by John, p. 247; his anointing, p. 254. “The baptism that I am baptized with,” p. 257. The great baptizer, p. 267, 297. John and Elijah, p. 228. John’s mission, p. 221. His baptism no novelty, p. 21. Its nature and end, p. 228. Identical with that of Christ, p. 425. Its mode, p. 237, 241. Josephus quoted, p. 156, 176, 178, 240, 250, 327. Judith’s story and baptism, p. 172.

Kabala, whence derived, p. 80. _Kābas_ defined, p. 117. Kendrick on _baptizo_, p. 349, 458. Kingdom of heaven defined, p. 267. Christ’s coronation, p. 273. Kingdom of priests, p. 46. Koran quoted, p. 174.

“Lambs in his arms,” p. 463. Laver of the Tabernacle, p. 129. Laver (_loutron_) of Paul, p. 323. Leprosy, unclean, p. 63, 161. Rites of cleansing, p. 66, 163. Levi, Rabbi, quoted, p. 147. Levites baptized, p. 85. Levitical baptisms all one, p. 86. Lewis’ Origines Hebraeae quoted, p. 146, 149. Libation vase of Osor-Ur, p. 189. Life to the dead, meant by baptism, p. 92. Lightfoot quoted, p. 143, 146, 149. Living water. Its meaning, p. 31, 133, 387. Lord’s supper is the passover, p. 408. Lynch, “Dead Sea Expedition” quoted, p. 122, 125.

Maimonides on proselyte baptism, p. 76. Malachi, and John, p. 291. Manuscripts of New Testament. Care in their transcription, p. 217. Maitland, “Church of the Catacombs,” p. 124. Market. Baptism after, p. 214. Marriage feast, p. 209, 211. Messenger of the covenant, p. 223. Metaphor of water, p. 89, 386. Midianite children, baptism, p. 81. Mishna described, p. 78. Mission of John, p. 221. Missions. The new spirit imparted, p. 304. Mode implied in the meaning of self-washing, p. 115. Mohammedan washing before prayer, p. 174. Moore, T. V., on Malachi, p. 291. Mosheim quoted, p. 189, 418. “Much water there,” p. 360. Murder, expiation, p. 123. Among the Greeks, p. 182, 184.

Naaman’s baptism, p. 157. New Testament Greek, p. 151. New Testament Church, how organized, p. 393, 411, 418. _Nidda_, Water of, p. 74. Noah saved by water, p. 333.

Old Testament evidence summed p. 196. Onkelos, Targum of, p. 77. Order of precedence in the Godhead, p. 274. Mediatorial order, p. 275. Ordinances of testimony in Israel, p. 54. Osor-Ur. Libation vase, p. 189. Ovid on purifyings, p. 184.

Palestine. Central position, p. 49, 178. Its geology and water, p. 120. Palestinian Gemara, p. 78. Passover described, p. 24, 410. Perpetuated in the supper, p. 408. Pentecost, p. 297. The Spirit baptism then given, p. 299, 304, 313, 318. The gifts imparted, p. 313, 318. The Spirit of missions then given, p. 304. Pharisees. The sect, p. 236, 412. Their purifyings, p. 209. Philip and the eunuch, p. 451. Philo Judaeus on the Levitical baptism, p. 77, 175, 187, 327. Phœnicia and Israel, p. 179, 183. Plato quoted, p. 181, 245. Pliny quoted, p. 452. Plutarch quoted, p. 326. Pool’s Synopsis quoted, p. 149. Pouring of water. The festival, p. 143. Pouring water—in ablutions, p. 119, 124. among the Greeks, p. 324. Pouring water in ritual washings of the hands, p. 123, 173. Prayer. Washings before, p. 173. In the Koran, p. 174. Priesthood of Aaron, His inauguration, p. 131, 248. It was no rule to Christ, p. 248. Age of office, p. 249. Priesthood of Christ not after Aaron’s pattern, p. 250. Priest-kingdom, Israel, p. 46, 150. Priests’ self-washings not immersions, p. 128. Pumbaditha rabbinic seminary, p. 78. Purifying of Jesus and Mary, p. 84. Purifyings of the Jews, p. 208. Purifyings of things, p. 102, 136, 219.

Rabbi. Akiva, p. 213. Hillel, p. 79. Judah Hakkodesh, p. 78. Maimonides, p. 76, 79. Shammai, p. 79. Solomon, p. 149. Rabbinic baptism of Proselytes, p. 76, 81. Rabbinic Schools, p. 78. Rabbinic traditions of the red heifer, p. 142. _Rāhatz_, defined, p. 118. _Rantizōntai_ and _Baptizōntai_, p. 216. Rebaptism. Note on, p. 430. of John’s disciples, p. 429. Red heifer. The ashes, p. 68, 69. In Philo, p. 175. in Josephus, p. 176. Rabbinic traditions, p. 142. Remission. Baptism of, p. 96, 244, 318. Resurrection symbolized by baptism, p. 92, 257, 265. Resurrection and _baptizo_, p. 347. Revised Version on _loutron_, p. 323. Revival at Sinai, p. 28. Baptism of the converts, p. 29. Revival under Hezekiah, p. 139. Purifying them, p. 139. Revival under John’s ministry, p. 232. Revival of Pentecost, p. 297, 318. Ritual law. Its office, p. 54. Its relation to the Sinai covenant, p. 56. It had no immersions, p. 23, 115, 116, 119, 128, 134. It remains in force, p. 393. The Gentiles exempted, p. 395, 406. Paul kept and enforced it, p. 396, 402. Rushing mighty wind of Pentecost, p. 299.

Sacraments of the Old Testament, p. 24; of the New, p. 408, 424. Sahagun quoted, p. 192. Sacrifice defined, p. 24. Sadducees. The sect, p. 412, 413. Saints. Origin of the title, p. 47, 469. Scrivener on the Greek MSS., p. 218. Sea of brass, p. 130. Sea water. Its meaning, p. 32. Idolatrous use of it, p. 187. Self-washings, p. 101, 108. Their relation to the sprinklings, p. 164, 105, 136. Separation. Water of, p. 68, 73. Septuagint. Its origin, p. 152. Seven candlesticks, p. 128, 311. Seven days uncleanness, p. 60, 64, 98. Seven sprinklings, p. 67, 98. Seventh day. Symbolic meaning, p. 64, 98. Shammai and Hillel on proselyte baptism, p. 79. Shasters, p. 80. _Shātaph_, defined, p. 117. Shaving off the hair, p, 114. By Paul, p. 399. Sinai. The scene, p. 27. The covenant, p. 42, 45. Relation of the Gentiles, p. 46, 53, 56. Place reserved for them, p. 46. Its conditions, p. 42. Its promises, p. 45. The revival there, p. 28. The baptism, p. 29. Smith’s Dictionary quoted, p. 127, 184, 188, 247, 324, 363. Socrates and Phaedrus, p. 245. Solomon, Rabbi, quoted, p. 149. Son of man. His kingdom, p. 267. His administration, p. 338. Sophocles quoted, p. 325, 326. Sora rabbinic school, p. 78. Sprinkling represents rain, p. 35. Its meaning, p. 88, 99. State of the N. T. question, p. 201. Susannah’s story, p. 122.

_Tābal._ Its meaning, p. 79, 157. Tabernacle. Its symbolic structure, p. 128. Tabernacles. The feast of, p. 144. Talmud described, p. 78. Talmudic baptism, p. 76. Targums described, p. 77. Ten commandments, the eternal law of the covenant, p. 43. Tertullian quoted, p. 193, 378. Theodosia Earnest quoted, p. 233, 236. Theophrastus quoted, p. 324. Things purified, p. 102, 136, 219. Third day. Its typical meaning, p. 100. Thomson. The Land and the Book, p. 34. Tiberias rabinnic school, p. 78. Tongues as of fire, p. 310. Tongues. Other, p. 313. Transcription of the N. T. Care in it, p. 217. Transfiguration of Jesus, p. 230. Trinity. Order of precedence, p. 274. Procession of the Spirit, p. 281. Typical structure of the tabernacle, p. 128.

Ulysses’ bath, p. 127. Unclean. Its meaning, p. 60, 466. Unclean seven days. The meaning, p. 60, 98. How cleansed, p. 65. Unclean till even. Two causes, p. 108. The meaning, p. 109. Union wrought by baptism, p. 322, 332. Utensils and furniture baptized, p. 136, 219.

Various reading of Mark vii, 4, p. 216. Vedas, referred to, p. 80. Virgil quoted on purifyings, p. 186.

Waldenses referred to, p. 49. Washing. Before prayer, p. 173. Mohammedan, p. 174. Washing, the hands, p. 111. the hands and feet, p. 111, 124. the garments, p. 112. the flesh, p. 113. Washings of the people. Domestic, p. 119. Ritual, p. 134, 210. Of the priests, p. 128. Before meals, p 210. “Washing of water by the word,” p. 390. Water, fresh and salt, p. 31, 32. Water, Metaphor of, p. 387. Water. Festival of outpouring, p. 143. Wilkinson’s Manners and Customs of the Egyptians, p. 120. Wind, Rushing mighty,—of Pentecost, p. 299. Witness. Israel’s office, p. 47, 54.

Zend Avesta, referred to, p. 80. Zion. Out of her the law, p. 420. Zoroaster referred to, p. 80.

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Transcriber’s Note

Spelling and punctuation, where printer or editorial errors were obvious, has been corrected.

Some idiosyncracies should be noted. In several captions, there is a period following the word ‘Sir’, as ‘Sir. Wm. Hamilton’, implying an abbreviation. This also appears once in the text, and once without the period. All are given here as printed. The variant spellings ‘sepulchre’ and ‘sepulcher’ are both used frequently, and are all retained.

The following table summarizes the resolution of any other errors. Errors in the formatting or punctuation of the index entries were corrected with no further comment here.

95.34 But in order [?] adequate appreciation _sic_: missing
word?

121.20 And, when they left Eg[py/yp]t Transposed.

130.31 about fifteen feet by seven and a half[,/.] Replaced.

172.20 they s[ie/ei]ze Transposed.

189.23 it may be, by tradit[i]on>, from the parents Added.
of the race

192.7 [the goddess of water].[’] Added.

211.24 it is interpreted, “to the elbows,[”] Added.

220.21 whilst Paul used the[ the] word Removed.

224.24 Heb. viii[i], 6. Removed.

226.35 or the favor of the rabble[,/.] Replaced.

235.5 that two years afterw[e/a]rd the evangelist Replaced.

263.4 I have kept the faith[?/!] Replaced.

276.19 to involve his government in[./,] chaos, God Replaced.
in the mystery

326.16 [(](_loutra_) _libations_ Removed.

334.16 “quickened as to the spirit[./,]” Replaced.

340.12 and his rest shall be glorious.”—Isa. xi, [1, Removed.
]10.

344.27 So, the prop[eh/he]cy cited by Peter Transposed.

348.31 obscuring of[ of] the subject Removed.

365.5 [“]Likewise reckon ye also yourselves Added.

354.9 That church had or[i]ginally incorporated Added.

392.27 I have spoken unto you.[”] Added.

401.12 the apostle repeat[a/e]dly and unqualifiedly Replaced.
asserted

410.16 and distributed a second cup[,/.] Replaced.

420.7 Let him not become uncircumcised[.] Added.

431.13 to observe all things whatso[e]ver Added.

436.13 that believed on his name.”—J[no/oh]. i, 12. Replaced.

464.12 signif[inif]icant Removed.

466.21 _unclean_ (_akathartoi_), and _holy_ Replaced.
(_hagioi_[,/.])

474.24 They [in-]include the Sinai constitution Removed.

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