English translation from the 1519 German version of Ein Sermon von dem heiligen hochwürdigen Sakrament der Taufe, in Clemen 1, 185–95. (1) In Greek, baptism is baptismos and in Latin, it is mersio. It means to submerge something so deeply that it is covered by the water. It is no longer a common practice to immerse infants but to scoop water from the font and pour it over them. We should restore the practice of immersion, however, because it agrees