4. _Apo._ “Jesus when he was baptized, went up straightway (_apo_) _out of_ the water.”—Matt. iii, 16. _Apo never_ means, “out of,” as here translated; but, “from,” “away from.” “When Jesus was come down _from_ the mountain.”—Matt. viii, 1. “_From_ whom do kings take tribute?”—Ib. xvii, 25. “Cast them _from_ thee.”—Ib. xviii, 8. “Beginning _from_ the last unto the first.”—Ib. xx, 8. From these illustrations, which might be multiplied indefinitely, it is evident that the prepositions will not bear the stress put upon them by the Baptist argument. Not only are they, in themselves, insufficient to constitute a reliable basis for the conclusions sought; but the statements to which they belong have respect, _not_ to the _mode_ of the baptism, but to the places of it. They are defined by the phrases, “_in_ Jordan,”—“_in_ Enon,”—“_in_ Bethabara.” Recent Baptist writers have had the courage to follow their principles to the result of translating John’s words,—“I immerse you _in_ water, but he shall immerse you _in_ the Holy Ghost and _in_ fire,”—a rendering from which the better taste, if not the better scholarship, of the translators of King James’s version revolted. The thorough consideration already given in these pages to the baptism of the Spirit justifies an imperative denial of the correctness of this translation. If any thing in the Bible is clear, it is that the baptism administered by the Lord Jesus is not an immersion, but an outpouring. On the question of the prepositions in this connection, light is shed by an expression of the apostle Paul. “By one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, ... and have been all made to drink one Spirit.”—1 Cor. xii, 13. Of this passage we have already indicated that “into,” as found in the last clause, in the common version (“to drink _into_ one Spirit”), is spurious, and that _potizo_ (“made to drink”), properly signifies, to _apply_ water or other fluid, whether externally or internally, to water, to cause to drink. In this passage, we have both the prepositions, _en_ and _eis_, each dependent on the one verb, _baptizo_, but each having its own distinctive subject. “Baptized (_en_), _in_ one Spirit (_eis_), _into_ one body.” Into which of these media does the immersion take place? Shall we follow the Baptist interpretation of the words of John, “He shall immerse you _in_ the Holy Ghost?” But in the first place, we have seen that this is false to the real manner of the baptism in question; which consists in a shedding down of the Spirit. In the second, how then, in harmony with Baptist principles, are we to understand the other clause of the passage,—“Immersed _in_ one Spirit, _into_ one body?“ Are there here two immersions by one act? the one subject put at one and the same time into two different media? Moreover, the language with which the apostle closes the passage, while it is in perfect accord with the true mode of the baptism of the Spirit, is altogether incongruous to the Baptist