But Scrooge was all the worse for this. It thrilled him with a vague uncertain horror, to know that behind the dusky shroud there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him, while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing but a spectral hand and one great heap of black.

I think he just got ahead of himself in telling first of the arrest of John, then jumped back to the earlier baptism of Jesus.

Several of the bills also allow prosecutors to go after people or organizations as conspirators or riot boosters for merely supporting or coordinating with others who violate the law.https://insideclimatenews-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/insideclimatenews.org/news/28032019/pipeline-protest-crackdown-state-law-legislation-south-dakota-conspirators-riot-boosting?amp=&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D&_js_v=0.1#aoh=15568698624308&_ct=1556869866911&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Finsideclimatenews.org%2Fnews%2F28032019%2Fpipeline-protest-crackdown-state-law-legislation-south-dakota-conspirators-riot-boosting

Copulas provide an example of the haphazard evolution of quantitative finance. The key result is Sklar's theorem, which says that one can characterize any multivariate probability distribution by its copula (which specifies the correlation structure) and its marginal distributions (the conditional one dimensional distributions). Thus one can create multivariate distributions by mixing and matching copulas and marginal distributions.