Auto-Baptism Last Friday (DID. 7.1-4)

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Of course as a believer in the DIDACHE, I eventually had to get around to having a DIDACHE baptism. (Though, as an infant in 1951, had been given the of a Methodist-Episcopal Church.) 
The day itself, June 20, 08, was rather magical and well ordered.  For weeks prior, I had been under a sense [...]

Baptism (and a text alteration? DID. 7.1)

7.1 Concerning baptism, baptize thus: [After you have repeated all these
things.] Baptize in the name of the [the Lord]
[cf. 9.5, later changed to ‘Father, Son and Holy Spirit’] in running water.
COMMENT:
The text as we have it reads ‘in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit…’ Alan Garrow suggests that this reflects a [...]