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ΕΠΟΤΙΣΘΗΜΕΝ again

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

E. R. Rogers
Affiliation:
Eastwood, Australia

Extract

The short study by G. J. Cuming in the January, 1981, issue of New Testament Studies, pp. 283–5, has raised again the question of the interpretation of the verb iiroriadrjuev in 1 Cor. 12. 13. Along with most modern commentators Cuming rejects a reference to the Lord's Supper and finds instead a reference to the rite of baptism administered by affusion

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Short Studies
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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NOTES

[1] E.g. Lampe, G. W. H., The Seal of the Spirit (1951), p. 56;Google ScholarFlemington, W. F., The New Testament Doctrine of Baptism (1953), p. 56;Google ScholarBest, E., One Body in Christ (1955), p. 97;Google ScholarBeasley-Muiray, G. R., Baptism in the New Testament (1962), p. 170;Google ScholarSchnackenburg, R., Baptism in the Thought of St. Paul (1964), pp. 84 f.Google Scholar

[2] See Blass, F. and Debrunner, A., A Greek Grammar of the New Testament, trans, and ed. Funk, R. W. (1961), 159 (1).Google Scholar

[3] Baptism, pp. 84 f.Google Scholar

[4] Sir. 15. 3, cited by Schnackenburg, speaks of drinking the ‘water of wisdom’. This is not far from ‘drinking the Spirit’. But see especially Jn. 7. 37 ff. and Eph. 5. 18. Cf. Goppelt, L., T.D.N.T. Vol. 6, p. 139 ‘Where the O.T. spoke of drinking water the Rabb. interpreted it allegorically of receiving the Spirit (Str - B. II 433 f.).’Google Scholar

[5] Holy Spirit, Baptism, and the Body of Christ’, Review and Expositor, Vol. 63 (1966), p. 181.Google Scholar

[6] In Hermas, Similitude 8.2.8,9 much water is poured out (παρέχεεν) but the purpose of the action is to water (ποτίσαι) the rods, i.e. that they might drink in the water and recover.Google Scholar

[7] Baptism, p. 85.Google Scholar

[8] Corinthians, l, p. 289. Cf. the Pentecost account in Acts where the disciples are not only in the Spirit (1. 5, 2. 2) but the Spirit is in them (2. 4) with accompanying gifts.Google Scholar

[9] Cf. Godet, F., First Epistle to the Corinthians, Vol. 2 (1980), p. 211.Google Scholar