hymn are such as we have encountered and are to meet in baptismal passages of other Epistles: λουτρόν, denoting the ‘washing’ of baptism, occurs in Eph. 5:26; baptism in the Spirit in 1 Cor. 12:13 and the Acts (frequently); justification in Christ and the Spirit, in 1 Cor. 6:11; and the conjunction of salvation with baptism in 1 Pt. 3:21. (The connection of regeneration with ‘water and Spirit’ in Jn. 3:5 we have yet to examine.) All things considered, it requires a real hardiness of spirit to refuse
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