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and wantonly transformed it into a sacrament or a mystery.
The Church's baptism was a perpetuation of John's baptism
and nothing more; but the baptism with the Holy Spirit
and with fire was reserved only for Islam. The expression
that some twelve persons in Samaria "had not yet received
the Holy Spirit, because they were only baptized in the name
of our lord Jesus" Acts vii. 16, 17), is decisive to frustrate
the pretensions of the Church.
The last three verses in the passage cited are held by
many to be an interpolation. They did not exist in the
oldest existing MS., which is, of course, the origin of all
subsequent versions of the Bible, including the Vulgate. A
96
The Church's baptism was a perpetuation of John's baptism
and nothing more; but the baptism with the Holy Spirit
and with fire was reserved only for Islam. The expression
that some twelve persons in Samaria "had not yet received
the Holy Spirit, because they were only baptized in the name
of our lord Jesus" Acts vii. 16, 17), is decisive to frustrate
the pretensions of the Church.
The last three verses in the passage cited are held by
many to be an interpolation. They did not exist in the
oldest existing MS., which is, of course, the origin of all
subsequent versions of the Bible, including the Vulgate. A
96