The Syrians, Armenians, Persians, and all Eastern Christians, have understood the Greek word Baptism to signify dipping; hence they always administer baptism by immersion; but the Rev. Doctor Mohammed in his Al-koran has most fully translated the original word. He calls baptism Sebgatallah, that is divine dying, or the tinging of God, from sebgah, dying, and Allah, God. Herbert says, Mohammed used this compound term for baptism, because in his time, A. D. 630, Christians administered baptism as dyer’s tinge, by immersion, and not as now (in the West) by aspersion. Mohammed was a Quaker, in so far that he set aside baptism entirely; —he was a popular Christian on the other hand, for, on being asked why lie laid aside baptism, he said, “because the true divine tinct, which, is true baptism, is faith and grace, which God bestows on true believers”—Singular coincidence! The reverend Doctors of this age are more indebted to Professor Mohammed, “the distinguished Clergyman” of the seventh century, than they are aware.
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Bible reference(s): Matthew 3:6, Matthew 3:7, Mat 21:25, Mark 1:4-5, Mar 11:30, Mark 16:16, Luke 3:3, Luke 3:7, Luke 3:12, Luke 3:21, Luke 7:29-30, Luke 12:50, Luk 20:4, John 1:25, John 1:31, John 3:22, John 4:2, Act 1:22, Acts 2:41, Acts 8:12, Acts 8:13, Acts 8:16, Acts 8:36, Acts 8:38, Acts 9:18, Act 10:37, Acts 10:48, Act 13:24, Acts 16:15, Acts 16:33, Acts 18:8, Act 18:25, Acts 19:3, Acts 19:5, Acts 22:16, Romans 6:3, Romans 6:4, 1 Corinthians 1:13, 1 Corinthians 1:14, 1 Corinthians 1:15, 1 Corinthians 1:16, 1 Corinthians 1:17, 1 Corinthians 10:2, 1 Corinthians 15:29, Galatians 3:27, Ephesians 4:5, Colossians 2:12, 1 Peter 3:21
Source: “Baptism Translated by Mohammed,” The Apostolic Advocate, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1834, p. 40.
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