...latch of whose Shoe I am unworthy to unloose'.68 This was an allusion to the words of John the Baptist: He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, Whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.f Coleridge was content to be prophet to the new Messiah. Coleridge's letter to Godwin referred...

...out as present. 9. " Why baptizest thou then, if thou be mot the Christ, nor Elias, nor a prophet? John answered them, saying, I baptize with water;...but there standeth One among you whom ye know not," For, very truly, He was not seen, being hnmble, and therefore was the lamp lighted. Observe how John...

...unto him, Why baptizes! thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? 26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water:...but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; 27 He it is, who corning after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose....

...Pharisees who came to ask who he was and why he baptized: "John answered them, saying, . . . There standcth one among you, whom ye know not; He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me" (John i, 24-27). This a clear and unequivocal recognition by the Baptist of the Christ. The Evangelist...

...neither that prophet? John answered them saying, I baptize with water; but there standeth among you, one whom ye know not; He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me ,whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose. These things were done in Bethabata beyond Jordan, where John was...

...than he was. "He it is who cometh after me, who is made before me " (that is, as we have already said, is " preferred before me "), whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose." How greatly did he humble himself ! And therefore he was greatly lifted up; for he that humbleth himself...

...answered them, saying, 1 baptize with water: tat there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;7 27 but it shall be g laichet l am not worthy to unloose. 28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John...