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stephan huller · 07-08-2012, 03:43 PM

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Then, after these things, let him give him over to the presbyter who baptizes, and let the candidates stand in the water, naked, a deacon going with them likewise.[1]

[1] the sense may be that the presbyter, the candidate and the deacon all stand naked in the water; in the above translation "the candidates" was supplied for "them" and the following "them" was substituted for "him".

Does that mean the original material read:

Then, after these things, let him give him over to the presbyter who baptizes, and let them stand in the water, naked, him going with them likewise.

sotto voce · 07-08-2012, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by stephan huller

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Then, after these things, let him give him over to the presbyter who baptizes

Yet another sign of the control-freakery of the antichurch.

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and let the candidates stand in the water, naked, a deacon going with them likewise.[1]

The word 'naked' meant 'with outer garment removed'. Even the fake church knew better than to expose pudenda.

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