§ 3.  First Unction.  On passing from the outer to the inner chamber of the Baptistery, the Candidate who had made his renunciation and profession barefoot and wearing his tunic (Χιτών) Pseudo-Dionysius Areopag. Eccl. Hierarch. iii. only, now put off this inner garment also, as an emblem of putting off the man with his deeds Mystag. ii. § 2..  A further significance is ascribed by Cyril to this unclothing of Candidate, as being an imitation both of Christ, who hung naked This passage has recently (1891) acquired a special interest from the controversy concerning Mr. Calderon’s picture, representing St. Elisabeth of Hungary as kneeling naked before the altar.  The word “naked” (γυμνός, nudus) is not in itself decisive, but here in St. Cyril’s account of Baptism absolute nakedness seems to be implied; for though women sometimes wore an under-tunic (χιτώνιον), men had nothing beneath the tunic proper (χιτών), which is here said to be put off.  According to Theophylact, on Matt. v. 40, the chiton was properly τὸ παρ᾽ ἡμῖν λεγόμενον ὑποκάμισοε.  See Dictionary of Biblical Antiquities, “Baptism,” § 48. on the Cross, and by His nakedness put off from Himself the principalities and the powers, and “of the first-formed Adam, who was naked in the garden, and was not ashamed.”