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Chapter XIX.—Of the Times Most Suitable for
Baptism.
The Passover affords a more than usually
solemn day for baptism; when, withal, the Lord’s passion, in
which we are baptized, was completed. Nor will it be incongruous to
interpret figuratively the fact that, when the Lord was about to
celebrate the last Passover, He said to the disciples who were sent to
make preparation, “Ye will meet a man bearing
water.”8737
He points out the
place for celebrating the Passover by the sign of water. After
that, Pentecost is a most joyous space8738
| 8738 [He means the
whole fifty days from the Paschal Feast till Pentecost, including the
latter. Bunsen Hippol. III. 18.] |
for conferring baptisms;8739
wherein, too, the
resurrection of the Lord was repeatedly proved8740
among the disciples, and the hope of the advent of the Lord indirectly
pointed to, in that, at that time, when He had been received back into
the heavens, the angels8741
| 8741 Comp. Acts
i. 10 and Luke ix. 30: in
each place St. Luke says, ἄνδρες δύο: as
also in xxiv. 4
of his Gospel. | told the apostles
that “He would so come, as He had withal ascended into the
heavens;”8742
at Pentecost, of
course. But, moreover, when Jeremiah says, “And I will gather
them together from the extremities of the land in the feast-day,”
he signifies the day of the Passover and of Pentecost, which is
properly a “feast-day.”8743
| 8743 Jer. xxxi. 8, xxxviii. 8 in LXX., where ἐν
ἑορτῇ φασέκ
is found, which is not in the English version. | However,
every day is the Lord’s; every hour, every time, is apt
for baptism: if there is a difference in the solemnity,
distinction there is none in the grace.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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