[217:5] 1 Cor. xiv. 27.  The gift of “interpretation of tongues” (1 Cor. xii. 10) was quite as wonderful as the gift of “divers kinds of tongues” (1 Cor. xii. 10).

[218:1] Censers were introduced into the Church about the fourth or fifth century.  Bingham, ii. 454, 455.

[218:2] 1 Cor. xvi. 19; Col. iv. 15; Philem. 2.

[218:3] Matt. iii. 4.

[218:4] The rite of confirmation, as now practised, has no sanction in the New Testament.  The “baptisms” and “laying on of hands,” mentioned Heb. vi. 2, are obviously the “divers washings” of the Jews, and the imposition of hands on the heads of victims.  The laying on of the apostles’ hands conferred miraculous gifts.  Had the apostle referred to Christian baptism in Heb. vi. 2, he would have used the singular number.

[218:5] Lightfoot affirms that the use of baptism among the Israelites was as ancient as the days of Jacob.  He appeals in support of this view to Gen. xxxv. 2.  “Works,” iv. 278.

[219:1] Lightfoot’s “Works,” iv. 409, 410.  Edit.  London, 1822.

[219:2] Acts x. 2, 44-48, xvi. 15, 33, xviii. 8; 1 Cor. i. 16.

[219:3] Acts viii. 37.

[219:4] Mark xvi. 16; John iii. 18.

[219:5] Matt. xix. 14; Luke xviii. 15.  In the New Testament children are described as uniting with their Christian parents in prayer (Acts xxi. 5).  Were not these children baptized?  They were no doubt brought up “in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Eph. vi. 4).

[220:1] Col. ii. 11, 12, 13.

[220:2] Col. i. 2, iii. 20; Eph. vi. 1, 4.

[220:3] 1 John ii. 12.

[220:4] Acts ii. 38, 39.

[220:5] 1 Cor. vii. 14.  The absurdity of the interpretation according to which holy is here made to signify legitimate, is well exposed by Dr Wilson in his treatise on “Infant Baptism,” p. 513.  London, 1848.

[220:6] This would, indeed, have been almost, if not altogether, impossible.  They would probably act somewhat differently at the river Jordan and in such a place as the jail at Philippi.

[220:7] [Greek:  Baptizo].

[221:1] Dr Wilson has demonstrated the incorrectness of Dr Carson’s statements on this subject.  See his “Infant Baptism,” p. 96.

[221:2] Wilson’s “Infant Baptism,” p. 157.  In Titus iii. 5, 6, there is something like a reference to this mode of baptism:  “The washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost which he shed (or poured out) on us abundantly.” [Greek:  Ou execheen eph’ hemas plousios].

[221:3] In some cases, as at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost, they do not seem to have had the means of immersing their converts.  See also Acts x. 47.  The text John iii. 23, indicates the difficulty of baptizing by dipping.

[221:4] Isa. lii. 15; Ezek. xxxvi. 25; I Pet. i. 2; Heb. ix. 10; Rev. i. 5.

[221:5] 1 Cor. v. 7, 8.