Not that I'm entirely agreeing with Post #2...
CONSIDER:
--the word for "
baptisms" in your verse, is
the same Greek word used also in Hebrews 9:10 (about OT times), translated there as "washings" ('diverse [G1313]
washings [G909]'):
Heb 9:8
The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Heb 9:9
Which
was a figure [/is a parable] for the time then present [or, for the present time], in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
Heb 9:10
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and
divers [G1313] washings [G909--same Grk word], and carnal ordinances, imposed
on them until the time of reformation.
--
https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/heb/9/10/ss1/s_1142010
--
https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/heb/6/2/ss1/t_conc_1139002
--For the other phrase ('
laying on of hands'), under Thayer's Greek Lexicon (at BlueLetterBible), it says this:
[quoting from Thayer's--re: G1936 -
epithesis ]
"STRONGS G1936:
ἐπίθεσις, -εως, ἡ, (ἐπιτίθημι),
a laying on, imposition: τῶν χειρῶν,
Acts 8:18;
1 Timothy 4:14;
2 Timothy 1:6;
Hebrews 6:2.
The imposition of hands, χειροθεσία, was a sacred rite transmitted by the Jews to the Christians, and employed in praying for another, or in conferring upon him divine blessings, especially bodily health, or the Holy Spirit (at the administration of baptism and the inauguration to their office of the teachers and ministers of the church):
Genesis 48:14;
Numbers 27:18,
23;
Deuteronomy 34:9;
2 Kings 5:11, etc.;
Matthew 19:13;
Mark 16:18;
Acts 6:6;
Acts 13:3;
Acts 19:6, etc. [See B. D. under the word Baptism (supplement); McCl. and Strong and Dictionary of Christian Antiquities under the entry
Imposition of Hands.]"
[end quoting from Thayer's; bold and underline mine]
... and where, for example,
Matthew 19:13 (one of those verses ^ ) says, "Then were there brought unto him little children,
that he should put his hands on them [using same Grk word here], and pray: and the disciples rebuked them."
[for some reason, the epistle is titled "Hebrews"...]
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