"The question is, then, what word did the people use in Christ's day in talking about a baptism? When Christ told the people to be baptized, what word did he use and what did that word mean? Did the Greek word which he used for baptism mean for the people in that day 'immerse' or 'sprinkle'? When they heard the word from him, did they think of immersion or of sprinkling?" "'_Baptizo_', or baptize, is the word which he used," said Sterling. "But baptize is our English word that we use. What was the Greek word which Christ used and which meant baptism?" asked Roland. "That is the point," said Sterling. "'_Baptizo_' is the Greek word, and the people who translated our English from the Greek Bible did not translate the Greek word '_baptizo_' into any English word, but simply put the Greek word '_baptizo_' or baptize into our language as it was without translating it. You see, if they had translated it 'immerse', that would have made the Presbyterians mad, and if they had translated it 'sprinkle' that would have made others mad, and so they did not translate it at all, but simply put the Greek word '_baptizo_' in the English Bible, leaving each person to translate it as he thought proper." "But why did they not translate it?" said Dorothy, as if vexed by their neglect. "It must mean something, and if they translated the other words, why did they not translate this word right, no matter who might have liked it?" "They ought to have done so," said Sterling, "and they ought to have put the English word 'sprinkle' instead of the Greek word '_baptizo_'." "Oh, I see," said the father. "I guess the Presbyterians, when they came to translate the word into English, would put it 'sprinkle', and those who believed in dipping would translate it 'dipping'." "That's it exactly," said Sterling. "The translators, in order not to offend the different denominations, agreed not to translate the word at all, but simply to put the Greek word '_baptizo_' in the English Bible and let each one translate it for himself as he thought proper." "Can't we find out what that Greek word '_baptizo_' means?" asked Dorothy. "Certainly, here is the Greek scholar," said Mr. Page turning to his son. "Tell us, Roland, what did the Greeks understand by that word '_baptizo_' when they used it?" "I must get my Greek lexicon for that." And upstairs he hurried and soon returned with Liddell and Scott's Greek and English Lexicon. He turned to the word "_baptizo_" and read its meaning as follows: "To dip repeatedly, to dip under." "What is that?" exclaimed the father, almost bouncing out of his chair, "'to dip under'?" "Here it is on page 130." "It seems to me," said the father, "that would settle it. If the Greek word that Christ used meant to dip under, what right has anyone to say that baptism is to be done by sprinkling?"