Significance of Names and Persons

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Originally Posted by Chan

Context is all that matters.

But notice it says that because all power (which one could say also includes authority) has been given to Jesus, we are to baptize in that power and/or authority. It has nothing with saying the name "Jesus" like some magical incantation as some people insist.

Nobody said anything about a need to utter a name. The issue is whether or not name represents a person and clearly since the authority is given TO him and name is used in the context of that authority then thats how I see it

Yes, and the Aramaic form of that name is essentially the same as the name of Moses' successor following the Exodus: Yehoshua or (to use the English equivalent) Joshua.

Right....but it was still HIS name.

In the OT God speaks of the temple saying he would put his name there...isn't that where the priest met the presence of the Lord?

But there is nothing particularly special about the fact that Luke just happened to refer to the names to count persons any more than there is something particularly special about referring to people as "souls" (as in "the ship sank and all the souls onboard were lost").

It would show a precedent I believe that bible writters can say "name" and be refering to the person who has that name.