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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) is an authoritative reference encyclopedia which explains every significant word, subject, place, person, and doctrine in the Bible and Apocrypha! In scope, the ISBE covers literature (apocalyptic, apocryphal, sub-apostolic, etc.), archeology, ethnology, geography, topography, biography, arts and crafts, manners and customs, family life,...

infants. It says: “Having first taught all these things.” Instruction precedes baptism. That is a distinct denial of infant baptism. The uniform practice in the NT is that baptism follows confession. The people “confessing their sins” were baptized by John (Mt 3:6). It is frankly admitted by Paedobaptist scholars that the NT gives no warrant for infant baptism. Thus Jacobus (Congregationalist) in the Standard BD says: “We have no record in the NT of the baptism of infants.” Scott (Presbyterian) in
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