Verb (used with object) : They baptized the new baby. From Dictionary.com.
Or, John the baptizer -- so called from his principal office, that of baptizing. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
Below that is the child John taking a bath (perhaps meant to echo his role as a baptizer), and then John appears as a hermit in the wilderness. From Wordnik.com. [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference
On the following day of St. John, three more masses were held, to remember his role as the precurser, his role as the baptizer, and the last to honor his sanctity. From Wordnik.com. [June festivals at Lake Chapala] Reference
Again, in the baptismal form, only one action is included; and the person of the baptizer is expressed in the words: "I baptize thee, whereas the contrary is to be observed in the above form.". From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
This lovely river, baptizer of Iglesias's childhood, was here shallow and musical, half river, half brook; it had passed the tinkling period, and plashed and rumbled voicefully over rock and shallow. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
Secondly, Observing from these things which have been spoken, how very known and frequent the use of baptism was among the Jews, the reason appears very easy why the Sanhedrim, by their messengers, inquired not of John concerning the reason of baptism, but concerning the authority of the baptizer; not what baptism meant, but whence he had a license so to baptize, John 1: 25. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
For he who was now baptized was in turn to be baptizer. From Wordnik.com. [The Ministry of the Spirit] Reference
The baptized and, if possible, the baptizer, and other persons must fast for one or two days previously. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Faith] Reference
Ambrose of Milan (387), on which occasion, tradition says, the Te Deum was composed by himself and his baptizer. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin] Reference
It is impossible to be saved without it, yet it is no great thing which the baptizer doth, finding the will ready prepared. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
Son is perilous to the baptizer, and of no advantage to the baptized, how can the rending asunder of the Spirit from Father and from Son be safe for us?. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
Each believer received, generally at his baptism, when the hands of the baptizer were laid on him, his special gift, which, if he remained faithful to it, he continued to exercise. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of St. Paul] Reference
John's protests are natural enough as John's baptism was for those who were sinners, and implied in baptism was the understanding that the baptizer was somehow greater than the one baptized. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Baptism, in its place, has its importance, and so has preaching; but whether he should be the baptizer, or delegate the administration to Silas, or Mark, was not of so much consequence as that he should preach. From Wordnik.com. [Bertha and Her Baptism] Reference
Through Harald also was Susanna made acquainted with the legends of the kings of Norway; with the deeds of Olaf Haraldsen, the blood-baptizer; with those of the noble Olof Tryggveson; and with admiration heard she of king Sverre, with the little body and the large truly-royal soul. From Wordnik.com. [Strife and Peace] Reference
And if he was, the words would be more like, "Now John is the local baptizer, he denounced Herod's choice of a wife. From Wordnik.com. [elephants Diary Entry] Reference
They are the following: -- (1) Use of fonts; (2) Status of baptizer; (3) Immersion, submersion or aspersion; (4) Exorcism; (5). From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
After baptism the newly initiated, whether infants or adults, were embraced first by the baptizer and then by the faithful who were present (see Cyprian. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
(The Romish Rituals direct the baptizing of the child, in cases of danger, before it is born; — but upon this proviso, That some part or other of the child’s body be seen by the baptizer: — But the Doctors of the Sorbonne, by a deliberation held amongst them, April 10. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
Now my baptizer is hiding in a corner. From Wordnik.com. [The duty of Christians- expose Bush!] Reference
10th century represent the baptizand as standing in the water, while the baptizer pours water from his hand or from a bowl over his head. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
He is the one baptizer. From Wordnik.com. [Rampolli] Reference
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