The principal remaining Baptist argument is derived from two expressions of the apostle Paul which are supposed to show by implication that baptism was administered by immersion. These are;—Rom. vi, 4,—“Buried with him by baptism into death;” and Col. ii, 12,—“Buried with him in baptism.” In our common English version as here quoted, there is a repeated neglect of the definite article, where it occurs in the original, which obscures the meaning. This defect being rectified, the first passage reads thus:—Rom. vi, 1-11. “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we that are dead _by_ sin live any longer therein? Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore, we are buried with him by the baptism into the death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For, if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: knowing this, that our old man (_sunestaurōthē_) _was_ crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For (_ho apōthanōn_) _he that died_ is freed (_dedikoiatai_, _is justified_) from sin. Now, if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.... For in that he died (_tē hamartia_) _by_ sin he died once: but in that he liveth he liveth (_tō theō_) by God” (that is, “by the power of God.”—2 Cor. xiii, 4.) “Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed by sin, but alive by the power of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.”