Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Commenting on Acts 2:39, Thomas E. Peck made the following comments in relation to the link between circumcision and baptism:
The connection between this mention of the promise and the command to repent and be baptized in the preceding verses: “For the promise,” etc. Baptism is here treated as having the same relation to the promise as circumcision hitherto had; and this implies that no fundamental or organic change was about to take place in the church as it was passing from its Jewish to its Christian form, much less that the old church had ceased to exist and a new one was about to begin. ...
For more, see Thomas E. Peck on the link between circumcision and baptism.
The connection between this mention of the promise and the command to repent and be baptized in the preceding verses: “For the promise,” etc. Baptism is here treated as having the same relation to the promise as circumcision hitherto had; and this implies that no fundamental or organic change was about to take place in the church as it was passing from its Jewish to its Christian form, much less that the old church had ceased to exist and a new one was about to begin. ...
For more, see Thomas E. Peck on the link between circumcision and baptism.