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Topic:
Thoughts
And Things Of The Bible -- Baptism For
The Dead
Only mentioned in 1 Cor. 15:29. This expression as used by the apostle
may be equivalent to saying, "He who goes through a baptism of blood
in order to join a glorified church which has no existence [i.e., if the
dead rise not] is a fool." Some also regard the statement here as an
allusion to the strange practice which began, it is said, to prevail at
Corinth, in which a person was baptized in the stead of others who had
died before being baptized, to whom it was hoped some of the benefits of
that rite would be extended. This they think may have been one of the
erroneous customs which Paul went to Corinth to "set in order."
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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