The Gospel of Mark : a popular commentary upon a critical basis, especially designed for pastors and Sunday schools . himself ona level with man, and receiving tliebaptism of repentance, and thereby thepublic testiuiouy of his Fathers ap-proval. 28 MARK I. 3G. As Jesus had nothing for which toexercise repentance, his baptism point-ed to tlie vicarions nature of his prefigured not merely his death,burial, and resurrection, Luke 12: 50;but also his death to the sins of tliepeople laid upon him, and his life tothe righteousness of all who sliould ac-cept of his atonement. It prefigur
The Gospel of Mark : a popular commentary upon a critical basis, especially designed for pastors and Sunday schools . himself ona level with man, and receiving tliebaptism of repentance, and thereby thepublic testiuiouy of his Fathers ap-proval. 28 MARK I. 3G. As Jesus had nothing for which toexercise repentance, his baptism point-ed to tlie vicarions nature of his prefigured not merely his death,burial, and resurrection, Luke 12: 50;but also his death to the sins of tliepeople laid upon him, and his life tothe righteousness of all who sliould ac-cept of his atonement. It prefiguredsin, as it were, receiving its deatii andburial with him, and holiness its resur-rection and life Avith him; that thus his people should die with him, bequickened, and rise with him. : 12, 13; Eph. 2:5; Rom. 6:3, 4,8;Ps. 40: 12. In Jordan. Probably at the fordnear Jericho where John had beenbaptizing. Here tlie Israelites underJoshua passed over on dry ground(Josh. 3: 17), and twice afterward wasit miraculously opened by Elijah andElisha, 2 Kings 2 : 8, 14. Traditionalso assigns this as tlie place of our. THE JORDAN. SUPPOSED PLACE OF CHRISTS BAPTISM. Saviors baptism, and here pilgrimscome and dip themselves, or are dippedby others, in reference to that Latin and Greek pilgrims, however,have each their bathing-place, that ofthe former being two or three miles upthe river from that of the latter. The prepositions used in connection?with the word baptize, are in harmonywith, and confirmatory of, its meaning,immerse. Thus the Greek en, in, inverses 5 and 8. Here the Greek eis,into. Literally, into the Jordan, the preposition denoting the act of passinginto the element in which the rite wasperfoi-med. Any one without anyknowledge of the original can see tliatneither pour nor sprinkle expressesgood sense in this connection. Waspoured by John into the Jordan, orwere all poured by him in the riverJordan (ver. 5), expresses an ab-surdity. But only use dip, 2)hin(fe, or
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