{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030741.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030741.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030741.htm","text":"Chapter XIX.\u2014Of the Times Most Suitable for Baptism.\nThe Passover affords a more than usually solemn day for baptism; when, withal, the Lord\u2019s passion, in which we are baptized, was completed. Nor will it be incongruous to interpret figuratively the fact that, when the Lord was about to celebrate the last Passover, He said to the disciples who were sent to make preparation, \u201cYe will meet a man bearing water.\u201d 8737 He points out the place for celebrating the Passover by the sign of water. After that, Pentecost is a most joyous space 8738 for conferring baptisms; 8739 wherein, too, the resurrection of the Lord was repeatedly proved 8740 among the disciples, and the hope of the advent of the Lord indirectly pointed to, in that, at that time, when He had been received back into the heavens, the angels 8741 told the apostles that \u201cHe would so come, as He had withal ascended into the heavens;\u201d 8742 at Pentecost, of course. But, moreover, when Jeremiah says, \u201cAnd I will gather them together from the extremities of the land in the feast-day,\u201d he signifies the day of the Passover and of Pentecost, which is properly a \u201cfeast-day.\u201d 8743 However, every day is the Lord\u2019s; every hour, every time, is apt for baptism: if there is a difference in the solemnity, distinction there is none in the grace.\nMark 14:13, Luke 22:10, \u201ca small earthen pitcher of water.\u201d\n678:8738\n[He means the whole fifty days from the Paschal Feast till Pentecost, including the latter. Bunsen Hippol. III. 18.]\n678:8739 678:8740\nFrequentata, i.e. by His frequent appearance. See Acts i. 3, \u03b4\u03b9\u1fbd \u1f21\u03bc\u03b5\u03c1\u1ff6\u03bd \u03c4\u03b5\u03c3\u03c3\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1 \u1f40\u03c0\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2.\n678:8741\nComp. Acts 1:10, Luke 9:30: in each place St. Luke says, \u1f04\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03b4\u03cd\u03bf: as also in Luke 24.4 of his Gospel.\n678:8742\nActs 1:10, 11; but it is \u03bf\u1f50\u03c1\u03b1\u03bd\u03cc\u03bd throughout in the Greek.\n678:8743\nJer. xxxi. 8, xxxviii. 8 in LXX., where \u1f10\u03bd \u1f11\u03bf\u03c1\u03c4\u1fc7 \u03c6\u03b1\u03c3\u03ad\u03ba is found, which is not in the English version.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part III: Of th...","type":"page"}