38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.



Ver. 38. And he baptized him] Set Christ’s mark upon him, that seal of the new covenant. The Jacobites (a kind of mongrel Christians in Asia) sign their children, many in the face, some in the arm, with the sign of the cross, imprinted with a hot burning iron, at or before baptism; but we have not so learned Christ.