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or
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occurs) the reference to baptism by water is indisputable, for the water is expressly mentioned.
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Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself up for it; that He might sanctify it, having _cleansed it by the washing of water_ with the word. And in the passage in the First Epistle to the Corinthians which, like the one before us, contrasts the appalling wickedness of unbelievers with the spiritual condition of Christians, the reference to baptism is scarcely less clear.
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And such were some of you: but _ye were washed_ (lit. 'ye washed away'[82] your sins), but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God
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And now why tarriest thou? Arise, and _be baptized_, and _wash away thy sins_ (ἀπόλουσαι τὰς ἁμαρτίας σου),
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(Acts xxii. 16): words which are very parallel to the exhortation of St. Peter on the day of Pentecost:
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Repent ye, and _be baptized, every one of you_ in the Name of Jesus Christ _unto the remission of your sins_; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost (Acts ii. 38; comp. Heb. x. 23). In these passages we have a sacred rite described in which the human and the Divine elements are clearly marked. On man's side there is the washing with water; and on God's side there is the washing away of sin and pouring out of the Spirit. The body is purified, the soul is purified, and the soul is hallowed. The man is washed, is justified, is sanctified. He is regenerated: he is
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The old things, his old principles, motives, and aims, then and there
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(aorist tense, παρῆλθεν):
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(2 Cor. v. 17). Can any one, with these passages before him, reasonably doubt, that, when the Apostle speaks of