SECTION XXXIV. _Old Testament Allusions._—The rite everywhere, from Moses to Zechariah, 139 SECTION XXXV. _Rabbinic Traditions._—One heifer from Moses to Ezra. Eight thence to the end, 142 SECTION XXXVI. _Festival of the Outpouring of Water._—Feast of tabernacles. The outpouring. The festivity. Its meaning, 143 SECTION XXXVII. _Hellenistic Greek._—Alexander’s favor to the Jews. Alexandria. Hellenistic Greek. Its literature. _Baptizo._ Dr. Conant’s definitions. _Baptisma_ and _baptismoi_, 151 SECTION XXXVIII. _Baptism of Naaman._ _Tābal=baptizo._—The law of leprosy. Office of Elijah and Elisha. Naaman was sprinkled seven times, according to the law, 157 SECTION XXXIX. “_Baptized from the Dead._”—Ecclus. xxxi, 30. The water of separation here called baptism. “Baptized for the dead.”—1 Cor. xv, 29, 169 SECTION XL. _Judith’s Baptism._—Story of Judith. Her baptism. Mohammedan washing before prayer, 172 SECTION XLI. _The Water of Separation in Philo and Josephus._—Philo on the subject. Josephus’ description, 175 SECTION XLII. _Imitations by the Greeks and Romans._—Diffusive influence of Israel. The stain of crime, and purgation for it, novelties in Greece. Purifying always by sprinkled water. Ovid and Virgil. The Greek mysteries, 178 SECTION XLIII. _Baptism in Egypt and among the Aztecs._—The libation vase of Osor-Ur. Aztec infant baptism, 189 SECTION XLIV. _Levitical Baptism in the Fathers._—Tertullian on the idolatrous imitations. Other fathers on the water of separation. They recognize it as baptism, 192 PART VI. _STATE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT ARGUMENT._ SECTION XLV. _Points established by the foregoing Evidence._—Twenty-one points of evidence enumerated, 196 BOOK II. NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY. PART VII. _INTRODUCTORY._ SECTION XLVI. _State of the Question._—1. Baptism by sprinkling,—fifteen centuries old,—the Jewish Scriptures full of it,—the Jewish mind molded by it. 2. Immersion,—new,—incongruous,—unmeaning. Carson’s double symbolism, 201 PART VIII. _THE PURIFYINGS OF THE JEWS._ SECTION XLVII. _Accounts in the Gospels._—Purifying before the feasts. The marriage in Cana. Washings and baptisms, 208