The Pulpit Commentary — Galatians — Section 179

coted in the su hBequent clause is predi- instnnce of this, his e.pplioation of the words cated of every individual belonging to the (,cowowltL, 1<01vowds), "communion" "having class defined in this. It may be paraphrased communion," in 1 Cor, x. 16-20 (Revised thus_: As_ surely ~ ever e.ny one of you was Version); in whioh the expression, "he.ving bnpt1zed mto Chnst, so surely did he become communion with devils (,cow,.,vol,s -rC:,v lia,- clotli_c<l w_ith Christ. Precisely the se.me µ.ovlow .,,1.,,v,o-8tL1)," is, surely with oonsider- c?ns1dernt10ns apply to the clause in Rom, e.ble violence, npplied to the ce.se of persons n. 3, " All we who were baptized (80-0, eating things sacrificed to idols; but is tf3a:n-ri<r871µ.ev) into Christ J esns were baptized applied thus by the apostle bece.uee he into his death." A similar paraphrase may wishes to present a pare.He! to that ree.l be given in ver. 10 of this chapter: So surely "colllllluniou of the blood, of the body, of e.s any are of the works of the Law, so surely Christ," which Christians nre privileged to are they under e. curse; e.nd in Rom. viii. he.ve in the Lord's Supper. Simile.rly, in 14, So surely as any are led by the Spirit of vers. 2-4 of the same chapter, for the pur- God, so surely are these sons of God. Below, pose of exhibiting a pe.ro.llelism, he etrnins in eh. ,i. 16, "As me.ny e.s she.11 walk by this the expressions,•• spiritual moat," "spiritual rule," tlie /io-o, does mark out a class from drink," justly and precisely e.pplicable to among the genera.I body of Christians, who the Lord's Supper, to apply them to tho were not 1111 acting thus. So e.lso Phil. iii. mo.nne. e.nd water from the rock, the mee.t 15, • As me.ny as be perfect." Were ba.ptized e.nd drink of the Israelites in the wilderness, into Christ (els Xp,o--rov lf3tLnio-871n). So although the only justification of their being Rom . .-i. 3, "Ba.ptized into Christ Jesus, thus designated con8ists in their having be.ptized into his death." The question been superne.turally supplied, and perhaps a.rises-What is the precise force of the pre- e.lso that they he.d a typice.l meaning. We position " into" as thus employed with can thus, then, understand how, with refer- relation to baptism? With the present ence to the other so.crameut in ver. 2 of the passage we have to group the following: so.me che.pter, he strains the expression, •· Baptiziug then, into (,ls) the Ne.me of the "baptized into," justly descriptive of Chris- Father, e.nd of the Son, and of the Holy tian baptism, by applying it to the.t quasi- Ghost" (llfatt.:x:.xviii.19); "Were all baptized immersion of the !ere.elites in po.ssing into (,ls) Moses in the cloud e.nd in the " through the midst of the Red See. and sea" (1 Cor. x. 2); "In (,v) one Spirit were under the cloud," which he construes into a we all baptized into (els) one budy" (1 Cor. "be.ptism" which me.de them over to e. sort xii. 13), which st.atement, we must observe, of union with, in-being in, Moses, thence- is preceded by the e.pologue of a body with forward their lawgiver and leader. 'fhe many members ending with " so also is import of the expression, "be.ptized into ChriBt" (ver. 13). With reference to these Moses," is to be estimated in the light passages we me.y observe that, since in thrown upon it by the more carte.in import I Cor. xii 13 (" We were baptized into one of the expression, "baptized into Christ;" body") the preposition retains its strict not this le.tter to be explained down for the seUBe of" into," and since " Christ" is per- purpose of making it correspond with the petually set forth e.s for Christians the sphere other. Thie view of the clause before us of their very existence, in whom they are helps us to understand the words in Matt. that which distinctively they are, it is :x:.xviii. 19, "Baptizing them into the Nnme reasonable to conclude that, when the e.posde of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy here e.nd in Rom. vi 3 uses the expression, Ghost;" in the comprehension of whicli we " baptized into Christ," he uses the prepo- are further e.ssisted by the very remarkable, sition in its strict;sense; that is, meaning pregnant use sometimes me.de in the Old that Christians are in their baptism brought Testament of the word "Name," when it is into the.t union with, in-being in, Christ employed to designate the.t presence of which constitutes their life. Nor does 1 Cor. Divine power e.nd grace which is the security x. 2, " were baptized into Moses" (where of God's people e.nd the confusion of their both theAuthorizedand theRevisedVersions enemies (see Prov. xviii. 10; Ps. xx. 1, 7; render, "unto," the latter adding in the lxxv. l; Iae.. xxx. 27, etc.). For the baptism margin, " Greek, into"), present e.ny ree.l which brings men "into Christ" brings objection to this view. For in comparing them into the Name of the triune God ,as objects together, the apostle not unfre- me.nifested to us in the gospel. Such an quently puts a very considerable strain upon interpretation of these words approves itself a phrase when be wishes to bring the two fully with reference to their use in tho several objects under one category, using it supremely solemn hour of spirit-fro.ught a.like of that to which it is most strictly utterance recorded in Me.tt. xxviii. 1!J; not- applice.ble, and of that to which it is not withstanding the.t in other passages, of plain applicable strictly, but only in e. very quali- historical narrative, such e.s Acts viii. 16 e.nd fied seI111e. Compare, as e. very noteworthy xix. 5, it me.y be more ne.tural to take tho OH, Ill, 1-29.] THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS. 145