[B-Greek] Hebrews 6:1-2 [BAPTIMSA vs. BAPTIMSOS]
Charles Rempel
CharlesR at mygalaxyexpress.com
Mon Feb 28 19:40:48 EST 2005
>Charles: How would your response tie in with the other uses of BAPTISMOS in
Colossians 2:12 (Spirit Baptism) and Mark 7:4 & Hebrews 9:10 (ritual
cleansings)?
<doug>
i was thinking about those texts and wondered what the distinction was (if
any) between BAPTISMOS and BAPTISMA. because BAPTISMOS is only used in those
contexts where ritual washings is in view.
Doug Hoxworth
Luther Rice Seminary
Charles: You consider Colossians 2:12 to be a ritual washing?
Trench in his book on NT synonyms says this, "BAPTISIS is the act of baptism
contemplated in the doing, a baptizing; BAPTISMOS the same act contemplated
not only as doing, but as done, a baptism; while BAPTISMA is not any more
the act, but the abiding fact resulting therefrom, baptism; the first
embodying the transitive, the second the intransitive, notion of the verb;
while the third expresses the result of the transitive notion of the same
... By BAPTISMOS in the usage of the N.T. we must understand any ceremonial
washing or lustration, such as either has been ordained of God (Heb. ix.10),
or invented by men (Mark 7. 4, 8); but in neither case as possessing any
central significance: while by BAPTISMA we understand baptism in our
Christian sense of the word ... all explanations of Heb. vi. 2 (BAPTISMWN
DIDAXHS), which rest on the assumption that Christ baptism is intended here,
break down before this fact ...
It is interesting to note that Trench does not cite Colossians 2:12.
Charles
30 Year Student
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