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5 of death". The relation of these two events is important. One was set at the beginning and the other at the close of his ministry. One introduces his work and the other closes it. One is the type and the other is its fulfillment. Baptism and resurrection therefore, go hand in hand. The one was the weakness of the Shadow - the other was the power of the substance. The same difference is discovered between Christ's life before and his life after his resurrection. His whole ministry was marked by the limitations of a certain kind of weakness. He himself declared "I have a baptism to be baptised with and how am I straightened till it be accomplished". That is, narrowed shut in. Only once did he seem to rise above his earthly surroundings and that was when "upon the mountain top, burning through the thin and fragile garb of his humanity his inner glory shone