BAPTISMOS
dd-1 at juno.com
dd-1 at juno.com
Thu Jan 14 10:23:59 EST 1999
Mark and Edward, Denny Diehl here
Thanks for all the leg work on BAPTISMOS. As pointed out:
>West Saxon I (c. 990) uses the term "baptista" of John the Baptist
>(Matt. 3.1 and Luke 9.19); and at John 3.22 we have "baptizabat":
>"...eius in iudeam terram. & ibi demorabatur cum eis & baptizabat".
>But as Stephen pointed out, the word for baptism is fulluht, e.g.
>Matt. 3.7: "Soðlice þa he geseh manega þæra sunder-halgena &
>þæra riht-wisendra to his fulluhte cumende."
>
>So too West Saxon II (c. 1175), which does not even have John as
>"baptista" in Matt. 3.1 but rather "fulluhtere"
Any of the BAPT words would be transliterations from Greek
BAPTISMOS (and other forms). But what about "fulluht"? Was
that a translation of BAPTISMOS? And if a translation, what did
it mean? Thanks again for the help.
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