§ 5.  Trine Immersion.  This short confession appears to have been ‘made by way of question and answer thrice repeated.  “Thou wast asked, Dost thou believe in God the Father Almighty?  Thou saidst, I believe, and dippedst thyself, that is, wast buried.  Again thou wast asked, Dost thou believe in our Lord Jesus Christ and in His Cross?  Thou saidst, I believe, and dippedst thyself; therefore thou wast buried with Christ also:  for he who is buried with Christ, rises again with Christ.  A third time thou wast asked, Dost thou believe also in the Holy Ghost?  Thou saidst, I believe, a third time thou dippedst thyself; that the threefold confession might absolve the manifold fault of thy former life Pseudo-Ambros. de Sacramentis, II. c. 7..”  But Cyril of Alexandria, as quoted by Bingham Ant. XI. c. 7, § 11., “makes these answers not only to be a confession of the three Persons of the Trinity, but a triple confession of Christ; which implies a repetition of the Creed (the shortened form?) three times over.”