{Rejected for themselves} ((8874)het(8873)an eis heautous). The
first aorist active of athete(935c) first seen in LXX and Polybius.
Occurs in the papyri. These legalistic interpreters of the law
refused to admit the need of confession of sin on their part and
so set aside the baptism of John. They annulled God's purposes of
grace so far as they applied to them. {Being not baptized by him}
(m(8820)baptisthentes hup' autou). First aorist passive participle.
M(885c) is the usual negative of the participle in the _Koin(825f).