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(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..”

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