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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Volume I–XII is unavailable, but you can change that!

For more than a century, the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge has set the standard for biblical and theological reference works. Over a period of nearly four decades, nearly 100 editors and more than 600 scholars under the editorship of Philip Schaff collaborated to write the most detailed and comprehensive biblical and theological encyclopedia in the English language. Using...

practised baptism (Acts 2:38; 8:36, 38; 10:48; 1 Cor. 12:13; Gal. 3:27; Eph. 4:5; John 3:5), and must therefore have been convinced that it was acting according to the will of the Lord. The origin of baptism may perhaps be explained as follows: the word of Jesus in Acts 1:5 repeats John the Baptist’s prophecy of spiritual baptism (Mark 1:8). Moreover, the farewell discourses in John and the expression epangelia tou pneumatos, which occurs like a technical term in Acts 2:33; Gal. 3:14; Eph. 1:13,
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