Robert Kolb The guiding principles of biblical interpretation that shape Professor Nettles’s investigation of baptism—his three ways salvation language is used—provide a helpful vantage point for assessing differences between a Baptist and a Lutheran understanding of baptism. In regard to his third type of salvation language, we agree that God’s messengers in the Bible do indeed use symbols of the passion, particularly (but not only) in OT prophetic foreshadowings of the Messiah’s