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CLASSIC BAPTISM

15. For there fighting he mersed (baptized) all Asia.

[(Conant’s translation) “He was great at Salamis; for there, fighting, he WHELMED (BAPTIZED) all Asia. ex. 99, pp 49-50. Himerius, Selection XV. & 3.]

 17. Salamis, where thou didst merse (baptize) Asia.

[(Conant’s translation) “The crowning achievement was Salamis; where thou didst WHELM (BAPTIZE) Asia. ex. 100, p 50. Libanius, Declaration XX.]

P 299 Classic Baptism; However bravely the attempt may be made to put “all Asia” into the water of the gulf of Argolis, the attempt will issue in both a physical and rhetorical failure. Why should “all Asia” be dipped, or plunged, or sunk into the gulf? All the fleet was not. The mersion of Asia did not turn on the mersion of the ships. If not one vessel had been sunk, but every vessel captured and brought into port, Asia would have been equally mersed. Had this battle been fought on the land, in a sandy desert, with like issue, Asia would still have been mersed. It was a triumphant victory which gave Greece a power competent to sway a controlling influence over, to merse, Asia. (Dr. Gale, another Baptist, dipped) a lake into the blood of a frog because he would not acknowledge a secondary meaning to bapto. Carson exclaimed: “Monstrous perversion of taste!” And all from a denial of the truth,- bapto has a secondary meaning. Its admission obliterates all idea of a dipping and established an effect in the stead of an act. When will a second Carson arise and with imperial utterance constrain his friends to confess baptizo too, has a secondary meaning, putting to flight shadowy figures and “monstrous perversions of taste”? Asia was mersed by “fighting” not by dipping. Controlling influence changed her condition.