28. Let no one be
misled by the fact of the apostle’s frequently omitting the name
of the Father and of the Holy Spirit when making mention of baptism, or
on this account imagine that the invocation of the names is not
observed. “As many of you,” he says, “as were
baptized into Christ have put on Christ;” Gal. iii. 27, R.V. and again, “As many of you as were
baptized into Christ were baptized into his death.” Rom. vi. 3, with change to 2d person. For the naming of Christ is the
confession of the whole, cf. note
on p. 17. shewing forth as
it does the God who gave, the Son who received, and the Spirit who
is, the unction.
“ἡ τοῦ
Χριστοῦ
προσηγορία
…δηλοῖ τόν τε
Χρίσαντα
Θεὸν καὶ τὸν
Χρισθέντα
Υἱ& 232·ν καὶ τὸ
Χρίσμα τὸ
Πνεῦμα.” So we have
learned from Peter, in the Acts, of “Jesus of Nazareth whom
God anointed with the Holy Ghost;” Acts x. 38.
and in Isaiah, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the
Lord hath anointed me;” Is. lx. 1. and the
Psalmist, “Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee
with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.” Ps. xlv. 7. Scripture, however, in the case of
baptism, sometimes plainly mentions the Spirit alone. No subject
occurs in the original, but “Scripture” seems better
than “the Apostle” of the Bened. Tr.
“Videtur fecisse mentionem,” moreover, is not the
Latin for φαίνεται
μνημονεύσας,
but for φαίνεται
μνημονεῦσαι.