viour was very tender of his disciples in their transition state
and is yet equally mindful of his sincere children who are still in the
same condition.[196] He said, I have many things to say unto you but you
cannot bear them now. Some things which he did say few can bear even
yet; still, we long to know what were those suppressed and holy things
which he did not say because his disciples could not bear them.

By the teaching of the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, we have
access ever-more to this sacred knowledge.[197] But only as we are able
to bear it will he teach us all things.[198] Not to the wise and prudent
of this world, but to babes in Christ.[199]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 178: "Christian Institutions" P. 208]

[Footnote 179: Jon 4.2]

[Footnote 180: Acts 22.16]

[Footnote 181: Acts 22.12; Acts 21.18, 26]

[Footnote 182: Acts 1.6]

[Footnote 183: Acts 15.28, 29; Acts 21.25]

[Footnote 184: Acts 22.21; Gal. 2.7, 9; Acts 13.47]

[Footnote 185: 1 Cor. 10.25, 29]

[Footnote 186: Col. 2.16, 18]

[Footnote 187: 1 Cor. 1.17; Rom. 1.16]

[Footnote 188: Acts 2.38, 41; Acts 4.33, 37; Acts 2.44, 46]

[Footnote 189: Acts 10.44; Acts 11.15; Acts 10.47]

[Footnote 190: Acts 10.42, 44; Acts 11.15, 16; Acts 10.47]

[Footnote 191: Acts 15.28, 29]

[Footnote 192: Acts 8.27, 39 R.v.]

[Footnote 193: 2 Cor. 3.15]

[Footnote 194: Exodus 20.18]

[Footnote 195: Jon. 3.30]

[Footnote 196: Jon. 16.12]

[Footnote 197: Jon. 14.23, 26]

[Footnote 198: Jon. 16.12]

[Footnote 199: Mat. 11.25]

WATER BAPTISM AFTER THE APOSTLES' TIME

By collateral evidence we are led to suppose that several of the
apostles were martyred under the Roman Emperor, Nero, about A.D. 64.

The Jews rebelled against the Romans, A.D. 66. At the approach of war,
Christians of Jerusalem and Judea removed to Pela, beyond the
Jordan.[200] Eusebius says they fled in obedience to a Divine
revelation.[201] These were all Jews, and in their new homes were called
Nazarenes or Ebonites.[202]

Jerusalem and the temple were utterly destroyed and the Jews massacred
by the Romans, A.D. 70.[203]

Dean Stanley says: "The fall of Jerusalem was the fall of the Jewish
world; it was a reason for the close of the apostolic age; a death-blow
of the influence of Jewish nationality for a long time to come."[204]

After the destruction of Jewish Jerusalem, Gentile Antioch appears to
have become the seat of church authority.

John was pr