(2) In support of the second inference the
argument offered is as follows: “That the Spirit was to
come upon them in the course of their Baptism is here again clearly
stated; but that Cyril did not intend them to suppose that Baptism
itself would convey the gift is equally clear. Again and again in
earlier Lectures, as well as in the words actually before us, Cyril has
taught them to expect the gift in Baptism; if therefore the immersion
itself were to be the means of receiving it, he has already told them
his secret. Yet now he says that he will not tell them
‘how’ they are to receive it. That remains for a
future occasion Mason, p. 341..” The
mistake, as I venture to consider it, lies in the words which I have
marked with italics. For of the mysteries which were to be
concealed from the unbaptized (ἀμύητοι) the first was
the manner of administering Baptism itself, and the second, the
unction of Chrism; and in the preceding Lectures Cyril has no more told
the secret of the one than of the other. “Baptism, the
Eucharist, and the oil of Chrism, were things that the uninitiated
(ἀμύητοι) were not
allowed to look upon Basil, apud
Bingham, X. 5, § 4..”