The Progress of Baptist Principles in the Last Hundred Years
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' Matt. ii. 6. NAAMAN. 195 tension. The above are the only reasons from the New Testament adduced by Professor Kobinson, apart from the rite of baptism, already considered, for changing the mean- ing of the word ^anxtt^at. Closely and fairly examined, in- stead of altering the sense of (lanrli^ai^ they all tend directly to confirm it. But Dr. R. pleads that there are cases in the Apocrypha and Septuagint, at least, where ^amt^a) is used, and in which the idea of immersion is inapplicable. It is... even urged that these are sufficient to establish a peculiar Hellenistic usage and meaning of the term, existing before the New Testament. But it is not pleaded that all these cases together are sufBcient to show that the common HeUenistio usage was not the same as the classical meaning " immerse." Indeed Professor Stuart gives us the primary and usual meaning of the word in these writings, to plunge, to immerse, to dip in, quoting ' " Naaman went down and plunged (i^anTiaaxo) seven times into the river Jordan," as an instance.
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