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17 leading captivity captive and bringing pardon and life for those whose names are written upon his breast plate of love. Thus, much of the Old Testament is meaningless without an anticipated resurrection. Just so it is with the symbolism of baptism in the New. Baptism anticipates and joints to the resurrection of X. The two are blended in argument all the way through the apostle's teaching. Therefore, Says Paul, we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father Even so me also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. Baptism is meaningless without his Res. and his Res. is robbed of its principal type when baptism is subverted or changed from its primitive form.