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baptized. In regard to the meaning of the word baptized, See
Barnes "Mt 3:6".  We are not to suppose that the rite of
baptism, as we understand it, was formally administered by
Moses, or by any other person, to the Jews, for there is not the
least evidence that any such rite was then known; and the very
circumstances here referred to forbid such an interpretation.
They were baptized "in the cloud" and "in the sea," and this
cannot be understood as a religious rite administered by the
hand of man. It is to be remembered that the word baptism has
two senses—the one referring to the application of water as a
religious rite, in whatever mode it is done; and the other the
sense of dedicating, consecrating, initiating into, or bringing
under obligation to. And it is evidently in this latter sense
that the word is used here, as denoting that they were devoted
to Moses as a leader, they were brought under his laws, they
became bound to obey him, they were place