单词 | blood baptism |
释义 | > as lemmasblood baptism blood baptism n. any rite of initiation involving blood or bloodshed (literal and figurative); (Christian Church) (a) the redeeming sacrifice of Christ on the cross; (b) the martyrdom of early (unbaptized) Christian converts, regarded as a (privileged) substitute for water baptism. ΚΠ 1700 Flavel's Fountain of Life (ed. 3) xxii. 254 [Christ] who foresaw this Hour all along, and professed when he spake of this blood Baptism [earlier eds. bloody baptism] with which he was to be baptized, that he was straitned till it was accomplish'd. 1751 J. Gambold Maxims, Theol. Ideas & Sentences Present Ordinary of Brethren's Churches 343 We look upon the Earth and all its Inhabitants to be the just Inheritance of the Lamb, and don't allow Satan the least Right more to one single Soul. This is the Effect of Christ's Blood-Baptism. 1790 R. Robinson Hist. Baptism xxix. 339 Blood-baptism is martyrdom for Christ. 1869 New Englander Jan. 30 As of old the blood-baptism of the martyr canonized him in the church, though he had failed to be baptized of water into the Christian name. 1891 A. Hayes March of Man 52 Freedom that day Received her charter, and the People's cause Blood-baptism. 1912 E. B. Sanford Conc. Cycl. Relig. Knowl. 116/2 In the early Church, when catechumens were martyred before receiving baptism, they were said, in death, to have received a full substitute by blood-baptism. 1984 C. A. Pater Karlstadt as Father Baptist Movement 95 Children are saved through the sacrament of baptism, which rests on Christ's blood-baptism, since children are not capable of reasoning. 2006 M. Callia et al. in L. Cowen Edges of Experience 391 The ‘tauróbolo’ consisted of a bull sacrifice and a blood baptism of those initiated. < as lemmas |
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