2. _Eis._ “Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized of John (_eis_) _in_ Jordan.”—Mark i, 9. “They went down both _into_ the water, both Philip and the eunuch and he baptized him.”—Acts viii, 38. These passages mutually illustrate each other and show that the going _into_ the water was not the baptizing. “He came and dwelt _in_ a city called Nazareth.”—Mat. ii, 23. “He cometh _to_ a city of Samaria,” but he remained outside, at the well, while the apostles went “_into_ the city,” whence the Samaritans “went out of the city and came to him.”—John iv, 5, 8, 28, 30. “He loved them _to_ the end.”—Ib. xiii, 1. “I speak _to_ the world.” Ib. viii, 26. “If thy brother trespass _against_ thee.”—Matt, xviii, 15. “_Therefore_” (Literally, _to_ this) “came I forth.”—Mark i, 38. “What are they _among_ so many.”—John vi, 9. “The Son which is _in_ (on) the bosom of the Father.”—John i, 18. “He went up _into_ (_to_, or, _on_,) a mountain.”—Matt., v, 1. “Depart _unto_ the other side.”—Ib. viii, 18. “Fell down _at_ his feet.”—Ib. xviii, 29. _Eis_ is even used in express contrast with entrance into. “The other disciple did outrun Peter, and first (_ēlthen eis_) _came to_ the sepulchre, ... yet went he not _in_. Then cometh Simon Peter following him and (_eis-ēlthen eis_) _entered into_ the sepulchre.”—John xx, 4-6. This illustrates a usage concerning _eis_. When entrance _into_ is to be expressed by the mere force of the word, it must be doubled. See Matt. vi, 6; x, 5, 12; Luke ix, 34, etc. The same remark applies to _ek_, in the sense of _out of_. But neither of these words is ever used in duplicated form, with reference to baptism. It is evident that the word of itself determines no more as to the mode of the baptism of Jesus than does _en_. The ordinary office of _eis_ is to point to the terminus of a preceding verb of motion. When it is said that Jesus came and dwelt (_eis_) _in_ a city called Nazareth, _en_ would have been the proper preposition to express the in-dwelling; but _eis_ is preferred because the city was the terminus of the coming “He came (_eis_) _to_ a city.” So Mark above uses the same word, not because of its appropriateness to the baptizing, which is always elsewhere expressed by _en_, but because the Jordan was the terminus (_eis_) to which he came from Galilee. 3. _Ek._ “And when they were come up (_ek_) _out of_ the water.”—Acts viii, 39. In his gospel, Luke the author of this account thus uses the preposition. “Saved _from_ our enemies.”—Luke i, 71. “Every tree is known _by_ its own fruit, for _of_ thorns men do not gather figs; nor _of_ a bramble-bush gather they grapes.”—Ib. vi, 44. “He cometh _from_ the wedding.”—Ib. xii, 36. “All these have I kept _from_ my youth up.”—Ib. xviii, 21. So far as this word determines, Philip and the eunuch may have come up _from_ the water, without having been _in_ it, at all.