But there were other kinds of “Baptism,” which were in form and conception more or less similar to that just mentioned, but which belonged to a somewhat different category; these were ceremonial purifications, undertaken to obliterate “uncleanness” of one kind or another; see e.g., Num. 19, where several instructive examples will be found. Different as these latter are in degree from Baptism in the more usual sense of the word, both have this in common, that the washing has the effect of taking away