Add to those such authorities as Alstidius, Passow, Schöttgen, Stockius, Stourdza, Sophocles, Anthon, Rosenmüller, Wetstein, Leigh, Turretin, Beza, Calvin, Witsius, Luther, Vossius, Campbell, and many others who bear the same witness to the proper meaning of the word _baptize._ If at any time the word may have a secondary meaning, it is strictly in accord with its primary meaning--to dip, or immerse. For both classic and sacred Greek the same meaning holds. PROF. MOSES STUART, one of the ablest scholars America has produced, declared: "_Baptizo_ means to dip, plunge, or _immerse_ into any liquid. All lexicographers and critics of any note are agreed in this." _Essay on Baptism, p. 51; Biblical Repository, 1833, p. 298._ "All lexicographers and critics, of any note, are agreed in this," says one of the foremost scholars of the age, and he a Pedobaptist. What a concession! The Greek language is rich in terms for the expression of all positive ideas, and all varying shades of thought. Why, then, did our Lord in commanding, and His Apostles in transmitting His command to posterity, use _always_ and _only_ the one word _baptizo,_ to describe the action, and that one word _baptisma,_ to describe the ordinance to which He intended all His followers to submit? The word _louo_ means to _wash_ the body, and _nipto_ to wash parts of the body; but these words are not used, because washing is not what Christ meant. _Rantizo_ means to _sprinkle,_ and if sprinkling were baptism this would have been the word above all others; but it was never so used. _Cheo_ means to _pour:_ but pouring is not baptism, and so this word was never used to describe the ordinance. _Katharizo_ means to _purify,_ but it is not used for the ordinance. The facts are clear and the reasoning conclusive. STOURDZA, the Russian scholar and diplomat, says: "The church of the West has then departed from the example of Jesus Christ; she has obliterated the whole sublimity of the exterior sign. Baptism and immersion are _identical._ Baptism by _aspersion_ is as if one should say _immersion_ by _aspersion,_ or any other absurdity of the same nature." _Considerations, Orthodox Ch., p. 87._ THE BAPTISM OF JESUS The baptism of Jesus in the Jordan is thus described: "And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water" (Matt. 3:16). And again, it is recorded that Jesus "was baptized of John in Jordan: and straightway coming up out of the water" (Mark 1:10). He certainly would not go down into Jordan to have water sprinkled on Him. Nobody believes He would. He was baptized _in_ Jordan, not _with_ Jordan. Moreover, he was _baptized,_ that is, _immersed,_ not _rantized,_ that is, _sprinkled._ BISHOP TAYLOR says: "The custom of the ancient churches was not sprinkling, but _immersion,_ in pursuance of the meaning of the word in the commandments and the example of our blessed Saviour." _Commentary on Matthew 3:16._