circumcision and baptism first occurs as an argument for infant baptism; II. to consider at what stage in the development of this analogy its use is consistent as an argument for infant baptism; III. to examine the part Colossians 2:11–12 played in the development of this analogy in order to ascertain when these verses were first used in connection with infant baptism; and IV. to exegete this text in the light of Pauline theology. The earliest