When we come to inquire how far these several
theories agree with the teaching of Cyril himself, we must in the
outset put aside altogether the name Confirmation: for as
applied to the Unction used in the Eastern Church it is only confusing
and misleading. In the early ages of the Church
Confirmation was not known even by name. In the Latin
Church “neither Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome,
nor any of the Latin Fathers, makes mention of Confirmation in
this sense. Nor have the Greeks any word to answer to this Latin
term Suicer,
Thesaurus, Χρίσμα..” So far, therefore, Milles
appears to be perfectly right in refusing to connect the Chrism of
which Cyril treats with the Unction used in Confirmation by the Roman
Church.