BAPTISTS, SIX -PRINCIPLE. The six prin- ciples which distinguish this section of Baptists from all others are those mentioned in the Epistle to the Hebrews vi, 1, 2, viz. : 1. Repentance from dead works ; 2. Faith toward God ; 3. The doctrine of bap- tisms; 4. The laying on of hands; 5. The resurrection of the dead ; 6. Eternal judgment. They distinguish four baptisms : 1. John's " baptizing with the baptism of repentance ;" 2. The baptism of the Holy Ghost and with fire on the day of Pentecost; 3. The baptism of Christ's sufferings. But after the resurrection of Christ there is only one kind of baptism to remain, viz., 4. The 1 aptism of the believers in Christ in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Their rite of "laying on of hands" corresponds with Episcopal confirmation, and is the chief point in their system on which they insist. They refuse communion as well as church-fellowship with churches who do not practise it. The Six-Principle Baptists are Armeni- ans, holding to a general atonement. Their ministry generally has not been liberally educated nor adequate- ly supported. They are almost confined to Rhode Inland, out of which they have < nly a few congrega- tions in Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. They originated as a separate organization in 1639, and at no period of their history counted more than 39 churches. In 1852 they formed two yearly confer- ences, the one of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the other of New York and Pennsylvania. The Bap- tist Almanac for 1860 gives the following statistics: 18 churches, 16 ordained ministers, 3000 members. See (Winebrenner) History of Denominations in the U.S. : Belcher, Uilir/ii.iis Denominations : Smith, Tables of Church History; American Baptist Almanac.
Baptize. Sec Baptism.
Bar (properly rj"1*!^, heri'aih) chiefly occurs in the following senses: that whereby a door is bolted and made fast (Neb. iii, 3) ; a narrow cross-board or rafter wherewith to fasten other boards (Exod. xxvi, 26); a rock in the sea (Jonah ii, 6) ; the bank or shore of the sea, which, as a bar, shuts up its waves in their own place (Job xxxviii, 10) ; strong fortifications and pow-
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erful impediments are called bars, or bars of iron (Isa. xlv, 2; Amos i, 5). See Door.
Bar. See Corn.
Bar- Q3ch-, Heb. and Chald. 13, a son), a patro- nymic sign, as Bar-Jesus, Bar-Jona, etc. Sec Ben-.
Barabbas (Bapa/3/3«r, for the Chald. N3X 13, son of Abb i, Simonis, Onom. N. T. p. 38 ; a common name in the Talmud, Lightfoot, Hot: Heb. p. 489), a robber (Kytrrqc, John xviii, 40) who had committed murder in an insurrection (Mark xiv, 7 ; Luke xxiii, 10) in Jerusalem, and was lying in prison at the time of the trial of Jesus before Pilate, A.D. 29. The procu- rator, in his anxietj' to save Jesus, proposed to release him to the people, in accordance with their demand that he should release one prisoner to them at the Pass- over. As a rebel, he was subject to the punishment laid down by the Roman law for such political offences, ■while as a murderer he could not escape death even by the civil code of the Jews. But the latter were so bent on the death of Jesus that, of the two, they pre- ferred pardoning this double criminal (Matt, xxvii, 16-26; Mark xv, 7-15; Luke xxiii, 18-25 ; John xviii, 40), who was accordingly set free (Acts iii, 14). There appears to have been a usage in Jerusalem, at the pas- chal feast, for the governor to release to the people a prisoner whom they might particularly desire. This custom does not appear to have been ancient ; it was probably derived either from the Syrians or from the Greeks and Romans, the former of whom had such a custom at their Thesmophorise, the latter at their Lec- tisternh. Some think the policy of this provision was obviously to conciliate the favor of the Jews to- ward the Roman government. See Passover.
Origan says that in many copies Barabbas was also called Jesus ( I y to vvBapafifiav; see the Darmst. Liter. III. 1843, p. 538). The Armenian Version has the same reading: "Whom will you that I shall deliver unto you, Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus that is called Christ?" Griesbach, in his Comment., considers this as an inter- polation, while Fritzsche has adopted it in his text (so also Tischendorf in Matt, xxvii, 16, 17, but not his lasted.). We can certainly conceive that a name afterward so sacred may have been thrown out of the taxt by some bigoted transcriber. On the other hand, the contrast in ver. 20, " that they should ask Barab- bas and destroy Jesus," seems fatal to its original po- sition in the text. See Jesus.
Bar'achel (Heb. BaraheV, ixa^S, whom God has blessed; Sept. Bap«x<''/X), the father of Elihu the Buzite, one of Job's three " friends" (Job xxxii, 2, G). B.C. prob. ante 2000.
Barachi'ah (same name as Bereciiiaii ; Sept. Bapa\iac), the father of the prophet Zechariah (Zech. i, 1, 7). B.C. ante 500.
Barachi'as (Bapaxiag, the Greek form of the name Baraciiiah), fatherof the Zechariah (Zacharias) men- tioned in Matt, xxiii, 35, as having been murdered by the Jews. See Zechariah.