And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
We are not to suppose that in the administration of the sacraments in the primitive Church, nothing more was done than what we read, totidem litteris, in the Scripture. St. Augustine answers this, when he says: "insomuch that he saith, Philip baptized him, he would have it understood, that all things were done, which though in the Scripture, for brevity sake, they are not mentioned, yet by order of tradition we know were to be done."
He spoke, and gave the order at the same moment, before hearing (Philip's answer). And when they had come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip;
