Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
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Interpretation
The Holy Ghost fell upon others after they were baptized, to confirm them in the faith; but upon these Gentiles before they were baptized, to show that God does not confine himself to outward signs. The Holy Ghost fell upon those who were neither circumcised nor baptized; it is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing.
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This thought runs through Acts 10:44-48.