Persons who had been thus admitted to the class of Catechumens were usually regarded as Christians, but only in a lower degree, being still clearly distinguished from the Faithful.  “Ask a man, Art thou a Christian?  If he is a Pagan or a Jew, he answers, I am not.  But if he say, I am, you ask him further, Catechumen or Faithful?  If he answer, Catechumen, he has been anointed, but not yet baptized S. August. In Joh. Evang. Tract. xliv. § 2..”  Augustine, like Tertullian, complains that among heretics there was no sure distinction between the Catechumen and the Faithful Serm. xlvi. de Pastoribus, c. 13:  Tertull. de Præscriptione Hæret. c. 41:  “Imprimis quis Catechumenus, quis Fidelis, in certum est.”:  and according to the second General Council, Canon 7, converts from certain heresies to the orthodox Faith were to be received only as heathen:  “On the first day we make them Christians, on the second Catechumens, on the third we exorcise them by three times breathing on them on the face and on the ears; and so we instruct them (κατηχοῦμεν), and make them frequent the Church for a long time, and listen to the Holy Scriptures, and then we baptize them.”