difference of concept from that generally received is not great, but I fancy that Clemen did not wish to go so far. Yet can any baptismal utterance go ‘further’ than that which is implied in Rom. 6:1 ff? An adequate appreciation of that passage will make it apparent that the relationship between the Spirit and baptism in 1 Cor. 12:13 is no more than would be expected. More specifically, the contention that the baptism ‘in or by one Spirit’, 1 Cor. 12:13, is Christian baptism in water (ἐν ὕδατι),
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