 | Irah Chase - 1851 - 218 pages
...corresponding genuine Latin word. 4. The remaining consideration presented in the Note is drawn from " the baptismal fonts still found among the ruins of...Palestine, as at Tekoa and Gophna, and going back DR. HOBINSdJil'S LEXICON. 105 pie to produce satisfaction, Dr. Robinson has produced but a single Biblical... | |
 | Patrick Fairbairn - 1858 - 508 pages
...the season.2 It is not unworthy of notice also, what we learn from the same competent authority, that the baptismal fonts still found among the ruins of the most ancient Greek churches in Palestine, and dating, it is understood, from very remote times, are not large enough to admit of the baptism... | |
 | Patrick Fairbairn - 1859 - 532 pages
...season. 2 It is not unworthy of notice also, that we learn from the sanie competent authority, that the baptismal fonts still found among the ruins of the most ancient Greek churches in Palestine, and dating, it is understood, from very remote times, are not large enough to admit of the baptism... | |
 | Thomas Fenner Curtis - 1860 - 436 pages
...words are. Tertullian and all the Latin fathers at least continually use " Tingere" and " Imergere." The baptismal fonts still found among the ruins of the most ancient Greek Churches iu Palestine, as at Tekoa and Gophna, and goimg back apparently to very early times, are quite too... | |
 | James Chrystal - 1861 - 326 pages
...corresponding genuine Latin word. "4. The remaining consideration presented in the Note is drawn from ' the baptismal fonts still found among the ruins of...Gophna, and going back apparently to very early times,' which ' are not large enough to admit of the baptism of adult persons by immersion, and. were obviously... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1871 - 914 pages
...the rite of baptism to which the latter did not correspond.8 (4.) The baptismal fonts still found4 among the ruins of the most ancient Greek churches...immersion, and were obviously never intended for that use."6 1 See Biblical Kaeardtei in Palatine, vol. i. pp. 479-516. 1 De Doctrina Chrittiana, ii. 22... | |
 | Bostwick Hawley - 1869 - 222 pages
...spoken of ships, etc. ; to wash, to lave, to cleanse by washing, to administer the rite of baptism. The baptismal fonts still found among the ruins of...immersion, and were obviously never intended for that use." With these definitions all lexicographers agree. Even Mr. Carson, who boldly says, " My position is... | |
 | Ralph E. Bass, Jr. - 1999 - 102 pages
...Drawings on the walls of the catacombs and elsewhere back into the second century show a similar mode. 4 The baptismal fonts still found among the ruins of...at Tekoa and Gophna, and going back apparently to the very early times, are not large enough to admit of the baptism of adult persons by immersion, and... | |
 | 1851 - 656 pages
...corresponding genuine Latin word. 4. The remaining consideration presented in the note, is drawn from " the baptismal fonts still found among the ruins of...the most ancient Greek churches in Palestine, as at Tckoa and Gophna, and going back apparently to very early times," which "are not large enough to admit... | |
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The baptismal fonts still found among the ruins of the most ancient Greek churches in Palestine, as at Tekoa and Gophna, and going back apparently to very early times, are not large enough to admit of the baptism of adult persons by immersion ; and were... 