No other text has counted for so much in the dogmatic development of the Church as the text at the end of Matthew, ch. 28 verse 19:
“Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptising them into the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you.”
Prof. Swete, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, in his book on the Apostles’ creed (London, 1894), points out that the triple formula “forms the framework” of the so-called Apostles’ creed. He writes: “Thus the Baptismal creed is seen to rest on the Baptismal words. It was the answer of the Church to the Lord’s final revelation of the Name of God.”
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Author: Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare
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Bible reference(s): Matthew 28:19, Acts 2:38, Act 8:16, Act 10:48, Act 19:5, Act 22:16, 1 Corinthians 1:13, 1 Corinthians 1:15
Source: Fred. C. Conybeare, The Hibbert Journal, vol. 1 no. 1 October 1902, pp. 102-8.
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