Further reading on john the baptist

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Are there any books out there on st john the baptist? Upon reading about the desert fathers , it seemed like the first anchorite to have existed was john himself !

Pardon my poor knowledge of english but is “baptist” a title given to someone who does baptisms? I was thinking why not “ baptiser”.
 
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is “baptist” a title given to someone who does baptisms? I was thinking why not “ baptiser”.
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Some writers, including some Bible editors, do call him the “Baptizer” instead of the “Baptist.” This page at Bible Hub (link below) shows three translations opting for “Baptizer” compared with twenty-something using “Baptist.”

To my ear “Baptizer” sounds artificial and stilted. I never attempted to find out why they do it, but I guess it’s possibly because they don’t want readers to make the mistake of thinking it may have something to do with the Baptist Church.

https://biblehub.com/matthew/3-1.htm
 
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Maybe it is because that even though he did baptize Christ Himself, St. John is not the baptizer in the Church. The Holy Spirit is. Even in the NewTestament there is a difference between those (Jews at that time) who have received the baptism of St. John and those who received the Baptism in Christ and became Christians.
 
Now you got me curious. Whats the difference between the two processes
 
St. John baptized in the name of repentance so people believe in Jesus Christ. Jesus baptism covered people with the Holy Spirit. From the Bible - Acts ch. 19:
19:2. And he said to them: Have you received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? But they said to him: We have not so much as heard whether there be a Holy Ghost.

19:3. And he said: In what then were you baptized? Who said: In John’s baptism.

19:4. Then Paul said: John baptized the people with the baptism of penance saying: That they should believe in him, who was to come after him, that is to say, in Jesus.

19:5. Having heard these things, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
 
John baptized with water and not the Holy Spirit. Jesus baptizes with the Holy Spirit (the Love b/w the Father and Son). The baptism is through the priest with water as a symbol (in other words it is sacramental).

Jesus cleansed the waters of the Jordan after John started baptizing. Water is associated with cleanliness and we get clean through repentence, but God cleanses us wholly without repentence through the sacrament.

Confession and Eucharist exist to reconcile us back to that state when we fail and also to get us closer to and hence more like Jesus.
 
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