Struck into a state of bewilderment by this stunning fact, Landis, pp. 209, 211, clutches wildly for some supports by which to rear again his prostrate structure. He feigns to find evidence in John 16:16, that Jesus told his disciples that at death he would go to his Father: a scripture which very evidently has reference, not to his death, but to his bodily ascension, forty days after his resurrection. Then, referring to the fact that the word “ascend” is from _anabaino_, he says: “Now every tyro knows that in composition _ana_ has very frequently [?] the force of _again_. _Baino_ alone means simply _to ascend_; _ana_ adds a shade of meaning.” It is frequently the case that writers try to drive others into an admission of their statements by representing that they will appear very ignorant and stupid to deny them. But Mr. L., not being a tyro, doubtless understands that nearly every statement in this criticism is false in itself considered, and every one of them wholly so, as applied to the case in hand. _Ana_, in composition with _baino_, does not have the force of again. In neither Liddell and Scott, Robinson, Greenfield, nor Parkhurst, is there any such definition as “ascended again” given to _anabaino_. _Baino_ alone does not mean “to ascend.” No such definition is given to it in the standard authorities here named. It means simply to go, without any reference to the direction; other words, either in composition with it, or in the context, signifying whether this motion is up or down, forward or backward, over or under, &c. In no one of the eighty-one instances of the use of the word in the New Testament, is it translated “ascend again.” And finally, those texts which Mr. L. quotes as containing the word again, as Matt. 3:16, which he quotes, “Christ _went up again_, or returned,” and Matt. 5:1, which he quotes, “He went up _again_ into a mountain,” the word, again, is not expressed in the English nor implied in the Greek. In only one instance is the word again used with _anabaino_; that is Gal. 2:1, where Paul says, “I went up _again_ to Jerusalem;” but here the word again is from another word (_palin_), and _anabaino_ is translated simply “went up.”