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Rh the material ointment, when he says, (Lib. i. ad Autolyc.) "We are called Christians, because we are anointed with the oil of ;" for, that it is a spiritual unction also, an unction of light and of the of, is but what is affirmed by all the like writers, and belonged to it, as a part of Baptism. And thus we come so near to the time, when St. John wrote his Epistle, that it seems far the most probable, on this ground alone, that in the words (1 Ep. ii. 20. 27.) he alluded to this rite. St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in discoursing on this portion of Baptism, preaches on this passage of St. John, as being the Lectionary or Lesson appointed by the Church. It were needless to mention later authors, but for the uniformity of the distinction, whereby regeneration is attributed to the washing of the water, the gifts of the, (as in this passage of St. John,) to the anointing, as a part of Baptism;—an agreement, which, in so many different churches, implies a common source of tradition: although it need not be said that in other places they speak of the as  gift in Baptism as a whole. Thus Cyprian, Ep. 70. or rather the thirty-one African Bishops, (on the baptizing of heretics,) "It is necessary that he who is baptized should also be anointed, that having received the chrism, i.e. the anointing, he may be the anointed of, and have in him the grace of ." And Ambrose de Sacram. L. iii. c. 1. "Yesterday we spoke of the fountain, whose form is a sort of sepulchre, into which, believing in the, the , and the , we are received, and buried, and rise, i.e. are raised again. But thou receivest the , i.e. the ointment upon the head, and why? because the wisdom of the wise is in his head, as Solomon saith; for wisdom without grace is but a lifeless thing; but when it hath received grace, then its work beginneth to be perfected. This is called regeneration." And S. Cyril, in his discourse on the Chrism, (Catech. Mystag. iii. init.) begins thus: "Having been baptized into, and having put on , ye have been conformed to the of ; for , having predestinated us to the adoption of sons, conformed us to the body of the glory of . Having then been partakers of , ye are rightly called  (anointed); and of you has  said, 'touch not my .' But ye became , having received the representation of the , and all things have, as in an image, taken place in you, since ye are images of . For as when He ascended from the water, the essential descent of the  upon Him took place, the Like resting upon the Like, so when ye ascended from the pool of the holy streams, the chrism was given you, the emblem of that wherewith  was anointed, and this is the . He was anointed with the spiritual oil of gladness, (i.e. with the , so called because He is the author of spiritual gladness,) and ye were anointed with