It is also evident, even from the frequent use of the word baptizo, by heathen authors, that it does not always signify a total immersion. Mr. Walker tells us, “that Porphyrie mentions a river in India, into which if an offender enters, or attempts to pass through it, he is immediately _baptized_ up to his head:” (_baptizetai mechri Kephales_.) Here a person is said to be baptized, although his head did not go under, but remained above the water. This certainly was not a total immersion. “He also instances a case from Mr. Sydenham, as delivered by the oracle (viz. _askos baptize, dunai de toi ou themis esti_.”) In which instance, if _dunai_ signifies to plunge wholly under water, as it certainly does, then _baptize_ must signify something less than a total immersion.—“_Baptize him as a bottle, but it is not lawful to plunge him wholly under the water._” The baptism here described, resembles that of a blown bladder or bottle of leather, which when put into the water, will not sink to the bottom, but swim upon the top. The same critical author mentions an instance from Schrevelii’s and Robertson’s Lexicons, 19th chapter, in which case, the primitive word _bapto_ signifies a wetting with water, that was certainly less, and very different from a total dipping or immersion. The sentence is this. (“_Baptei men askon, udor de ugron dunei pote._”) “_He indeed baptizeth a bladder or bottle, but it never goeth under the liquid water._” To these instances, we might add a well known case, taken from a poem attributed to Homer, called the battle of the frogs and the mice, in which the lake is said to be _baptized_ by the blood of a frog. (_Ebapteto de aimati limne porphureo._) This lake was not _dipped_ into the blood of a frog; it was only _bespattered_ and tinged therewith. We could easily multiply authorities if it were necessary. It appears undeniably evident from the Greek classicks, and from learned writers and commentators, both ancient and modern, that the word _baptizo_ has other significations besides that of a total dipping or immersion. The most celebrated and respectable Lexicographers and criticks have often translated baptizo into the following Latin words, viz. _baptizo_, _mergo_, _immergo_, _tingo_, _intingo_, _lave_, _abluo_, _madefacio_, _purgo_, _mundo_. No one, I presume, will pretend that all these words are mentioned as being perfectly synonimous—of the same meaning exactly. And certainly if the word baptizo signify any thing less or different from a total immersion, then persons may be baptized in some other mode.