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English languages the Romish church has made but few if any versions of the
Bible. Among “Protestants” the only Bible society that has ever existed to
render the Bible into the English language according to the meaning of all the
original words, was a Baptist Bible Society — the American Bible Union. Its
rules required every translator, according to the world’s unsectarian scholarship,
to render every word of the originals into the English. Under these rules
the American Bible Union employed translators of different denominations. It
assigned to Pedobaptist scholars parts of the New Testament in which baptizo
occurs.
In answer to my question:
“Does any Greek Lexicon which is a standard authority with scholars define
baptizo by sprinkle, pour, or any word meaning affusion?”
I have the following letters: Prof. Thayer, author of Thayer’s New Testament,
Lexicon — a Lexicon which is of all Lexicons in English, pre-eminently the
standard authority on New Testament Greek — wrote me: “See Thayer’s N.T.
Lex.” Turning to Thayer’s Lexicon, under baptizo, I read:
“BAPTIZO —
I. (1.) To dip repeatedly, to immerge, submerge.
(2.) To cleanse by dipping or submerging, to wash, to make clean with water;
in the mid. and the I aor. pass. to wash one’s self, bathe; so Mark 7:4;
Luke 11:38; 2 Kings 5:14.
(3.) Metaph. to overwhelm, and alone, to inflict great and abounding
calamities on one; to be overwhelmed with calamities of those who must bear
them.
II. In the New Testament it is used particularly of the rite of sacred ablution,
first instituted by John the Baptist, afterwards by Christ’s command received
by Christians and adjusted to the contents and nature of their religion, viz: an
immersion in water, performed as a sign of the removal of sin. … With
prepositions; cis, to mark the element info which the immersion is made, to
mark the end, to indicate the effect; en with dat. of the thing in which one is
immersed.”
Having quoted the standard New Testament Lexicon on baptizo, I will also
stop to quote the standard Classical Lexicon on it — Liddell’s and Scott’s. I
will quote from the English edition which Prof. Fowler, of the Texas State
University, says is the best. To him I am indebted for this quotation:
“BAPTIZO. To dip in or under water, of ships, to sink or disable them; to draw
wine by dipping the cup into the bowl; to baptize.”