6.  Let no one then suppose that Baptism is merely the grace of remission of sins, or further, that of adoption; as John’s was a baptism Tertullian (De Baptismo, c. 10) denies that John’s Baptism availed for the remission of sins:  “If repentance is a thing human, its baptism must necessarily be of the same nature:  else if it had been celestial, it would have given both the Holy Spirit and the remission of sins.”  Cyril’s doctrine is more in accordance with the language of the Fathers generally, and of St. Mark i. 4; Luke iii. 3. conferring only remission of sins:  whereas we know full well, that as it purges our sins, and ministers πρόξενον. to us the gift of the Holy Ghost, so also it is the counterpart ἀντίτυπον.  The “Antitype” is here the sign or memorial of that which is past, and no longer actually present:  See note 6 on xxi. 1.  Cf. Heb. ix. 24. of the sufferings of Christ.  For this cause Paul just now cried aloud and said, Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus, were baptized into His death?  We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into His death Rom. vi. 3.  In the following sentence several mss. have a different reading:  “These things perhaps he said to some who were disposed to think that Baptism ministers remission of sins only, and not adoption, and that further it has not the fellowship, &c.”  Against this reading, approve by Milles, the Benedictine Editor argues that in Rom. vi. 3, 4, there is no reference to adoption, but only to the fellowship of Christ’s Passion, and that Cyril quotes the passage only to prove the latter, the gift of adoption being generally admitted, and therefore not in question..  These words he spoke to some who were disposed to think that Baptism ministers to us the remission of sins, and adoption, but has not further the fellowship also, by representation, of Christ’s true sufferings.