PART V.

_LATER TRACES OF THE SPRINKLED BAPTISMS._

SECTION XXXIV. _Old Testament Allusions._—The rite everywhere, from Moses to Zechariah, 139

SECTION XXXV. _Rabbinic Traditions._—One heifer from Moses to Ezra. Eight thence to the end, 142

SECTION XXXVI. _Festival of the Outpouring of Water._—Feast of tabernacles. The outpouring. The festivity. Its meaning, 143

SECTION XXXVII. _Hellenistic Greek._—Alexander’s favor to the Jews. Alexandria. Hellenistic Greek. Its literature. _Baptizo._ Dr. Conant’s definitions. _Baptisma_ and _baptismoi_, 151

SECTION XXXVIII. _Baptism of Naaman._ _Tābal=baptizo._—The law of leprosy. Office of Elijah and Elisha. Naaman was sprinkled seven times, according to the law, 157

SECTION XXXIX. “_Baptized from the Dead._”—Ecclus. xxxi, 30. The water of separation here called baptism. “Baptized for the dead.”—1 Cor. xv, 29, 169

SECTION XL. _Judith’s Baptism._—Story of Judith. Her baptism. Mohammedan washing before prayer, 172

SECTION XLI. _The Water of Separation in Philo and Josephus._—Philo on the subject. Josephus’ description, 175

SECTION XLII. _Imitations by the Greeks and Romans._—Diffusive influence of Israel. The stain of crime, and purgation for it, novelties in Greece. Purifying always by sprinkled water. Ovid and Virgil. The Greek mysteries, 178

SECTION XLIII. _Baptism in Egypt and among the Aztecs._—The libation vase of Osor-Ur. Aztec infant baptism, 189

SECTION XLIV. _Levitical Baptism in the Fathers._—Tertullian on the idolatrous imitations. Other fathers on the water of separation. They recognize it as baptism, 192