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ers. 10, 11. [4] Ver. 4; cf. John xi. 40. 'The glory of God' is specially manifest in the resurrection of the dead. [5] This is the original suggestion of the word 'united' in ver. 5. [6] Cf. Col. ii. 12. [7] The Greek words represented by 'leave at the disposal of,' 'make an offering to,' are different parts of the same verb. 'The tense of the former expresses continuance, habit; ... of the latter, a single irrevocable act of surrender' (Vaughan, _in loc._). [8] John xii. 24, 25. [9] It is one gain of the R.V. that for 'ye are dead' (Col. iii. 3, ii. 20), 'we are dead' (Rom. vi. 2, 8), &c., we read 'ye died,' 'we died,' i.e. at the definite moment of baptism. [10] Gregory of Tours, _Hist. Franc._ ii. 31: 'To whom (Chlovis) as he enters the font to be baptized, the holy man of God (Remigius) thus eloquently spoke--"Meekly bow thy neck, Sigambrian: adore what thou hast burnt; burn what thou hast adored."' [11] Baptism by 'affusion' began within the first century, but as the exception, not the rule. See app. note F. [12] By infant baptism under right conditions, I mean the baptism of infants when there is some real security provided, through their parents or proper sponsors, for their Christian education, according to the intention of the Church. On the primitive origin of infant baptism, see _Ephesians_, pp. 230, 231. [13] 'Stirb und werde! Denn so lang du das nicht hast, Bist du nur ein trueber Gast Auf der dunkeln Erde' (quoted by M. Arnold). [14] John vi. 53-58; xiv. 19, 20; xv. 1-10; xvii. 21-23. [15] P. 81 (2nd ed.): 'The three essential terms of Pauline theology are not, therefore, as popular theology makes them--_calling, justification, sanctification_: they are rather these--_dying with Christ, resurrection from the dead, growing into Christ_.' Cf. p. 76: 'How did Paul's faith, working through love, help him [to control appetite and self-will]? It enabled him to reinforce duty by affection. In the central need of his nature, the desire to govern these motives of unrighteousness, it enabled him to say: _Die to them_! _Christ did_. If any man be in Christ, said St. Paul--that is, if any man identifies himself with Christ by attachment, so that he enters into His feelings and lives with His life--he is a new creature; he can do, and does, what Christ did.' It would be truer, surely, to say in the first of these two passages not 'the three _essential_,' &c., but 'th
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