Sunday, December 10, 2006

More from David Henkel's Heavenly Flood of Regeneration:

Now since the word of God is a heavenly light, a holy fire, a divine glory, what then must baptism be ? It must be a shining, vivifying flood ; a cloud of glory, like the pillar of fire by night, transcendently luminous, going before the host of Israel. Why so ? Answer : Because this blessed word, with the water, constitutes baptism.

1 comment:

reader said...

Compare this to Luther's comments in the Small Catechism here, under the question: "How can water effect such great things?"