“J. J. G.,” Ventnor. The teaching of 1 Peter 3 seems very plain. Christian baptism sets forth the same great truth as was shadowed forth in the ark and deluge. It is the setting aside of the old thing, and the introduction of the new. The “eight souls were saved through the water” (δί ύδατος) and carried into a new world. So the believer goes down under the water, as the figure of his death to sin and the world; but he comes up out of the water, as the figure of his resurrection, or passage into the new creation.