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John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 10:47

47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? Ver. 47. Can forbid water ] Plain water, without oil, salt, spittle, cream, or other popish additaments. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 10:48

48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days. Ver. 48. To be baptized ] The use of the sacraments is to seal up adoption in infants, and faith in those of riper years. And he commanded them to be baptized ] And so to be incorporated into Christ’s body the Church: that they might be saved by the "washing of regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost," Titus 3:5 . It is a noble question in divinity, seeing regeneration is... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Acts 10:47

Acts 8:12, Acts 8:36, Acts 11:15-Esther :, Acts 15:8, Acts 15:9, Genesis 17:24-Ezekiel :, Romans 4:11, Romans 10:12 Reciprocal: Matthew 28:19 - baptizing John 20:22 - Receive Acts 8:16 - only Acts 11:17 - what 1 Corinthians 12:10 - divers Hebrews 6:2 - the doctrine read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Acts 10:48

commanded: John 4:2, 1 Corinthians 1:13-Esther :, Galatians 3:27 the name: Acts 2:38, Acts 8:16 Then: Acts 16:15, John 4:40 Reciprocal: Matthew 28:19 - baptizing Acts 11:3 - General Acts 21:16 - of the 1 Corinthians 1:17 - not to read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 10:47

Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost? — He does not say they have the baptism of the Spirit; therefore they do not need baptism with water. But just the contrary: if they have received the Spirit, then baptize them with water. How easily is this question decided, if we will take the word of God for our rule! Either men have... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Acts 10:48

And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.In the name of the Lord — Which implies the Father who anointed him, and the Spirit with which he was anointed to his office. But as the Gentiles had before believed in God the Father, and could not but now believe in the Holy Ghost, under whose powerful influence they were at this very time, there was the less need of taking notice, that they were baptized into the belief and profession of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:1-48

PART SECOND. THE CHURCH IN TRANSITION FROM JEWS TO GENTILES, Acts 8:5 to Acts 12:25. Through this Second Part of his history Luke traces in perfectly regular progress the successive steps by which Christianity emerges from her Jewish trammels into a free and universal Church. The Samaritans are first evangelized, and the eunuch is the first apostle to Africa. The Gentile apostle is next converted and put in preparation for his work. Peter, emerging from Jerusalem, is taught by the case of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:47

47. Forbid water Forbid the water to be applied in cleansing symbol upon the person; not forbid the person to be applied to the water. Have received the Holy Ghost As they have received the reality so they should receive the symbol. Such was Peter’s reasoning. He did not, like a Quaker, reason that because they had the reality they did not need the symbol. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 10:48

48. Commanded He performed not, it seems, the baptism himself, but gave direction that others, namely, the Christians from Joppa, should perform it, as an inferior office seldom performed by apostles. So Jesus baptized not, but his disciples, and Paul seldom himself performed the rite. (1 Corinthians 1:17.) The relation of the baptismal consecration, as to Christ, is stated with different prepositions in the Greek. Into the name of Father, Son, etc., Matthew 28:19. Into my own name, 1... read more

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