(1) Baptism in the Older Testament
The very first verses of the Holy Bible teach that God’s Triune’s Holy Spirit has always pre-existed the primaeval waters. They say He hovered not under but rather over them. Indeed, over their face (namely ‘al peneey hamaayiym). Genesis 1:1-2 & 1:26.
As Tertullian remarks1:"The Spirit…was hovering over the waters." And Jerome:2 "The Spirit of God moved above…[and] over the face of the water, and produced from them the infant world — a type of the Christian child that is drawn from the laver of baptism…. ‘The Spirit of the Lord,’ says Moses, ‘moved upon the face of the waters’ — from which it appears that there is no baptism, without the Holy Ghost."
