1. Having been
baptized into Christ, and put on Christ Gal. iii. 27., ye have been made
conformable to the Son of God; for God having foreordained us unto
adoption as sons Eph. i. 5., made us to be
conformed to the body of Christ’s glory Phil. iii. 21.. Having therefore become partakers
of Christ Heb. iii. 14., ye are properly
called Christs, and of you God said, Touch not My
Christs Ps. cv. 15., or anointed.
Now ye have been made Christs, by receiving the antitype ἀντίτυπον.
Cat. xx. 6; xxiii. 20. Twice in this section as in Heb. ix. 24 (ἀντίτυπα τῶν
ἀληθινῶν), ἀντίτυπον is the
copy or figure representing the original pattern (τύπος, cf. Acts vii. 44). Otherwise (as in Cat. x. 11;
xiii. 19; xxii. 3) τύπος is the figure to be
subsequently realised in the antitype. of the Holy Ghost; and all things have been
wrought in you by imitation εἰκονικῶς
.…εἰκόνες τοῦ
Χριστοῦ., because ye are
images of Christ. He washed in the river Jordan, and having
imparted of the fragrance χρώτων, literally
“tinctures.” The Ben. Ed. writes: “For
φώτων we
have written χρώτων with Codd. Coisl.
Ottob. Roe, Casaub., &c…But we must write χρώτων from
χρῶτα, not
χρῶτων from χρῶτες. Authors
use the word χρῶτα to signify the
effluence of an odour. So Gregory of Nyssa takes it in his 3rd
Homily on the Song of Songs, p. 512; and S. Maximus in
Question 37 on Scripture: ‘χρῶτα we say is the
godliness (εὐσέβειαν) whereby S. Paul was to the one a savour of life unto
life.’…In the Procatechesis, § 15,
Cyril calls the waters of Baptism ὑδάτων
χριστοφόρων
ἐχόντων
εὐωδίαν. If however
any one prefers the reading φώτων, he may defend
himself by the authority of Epiphanius, who in the Exposition of the
Faith, c. 15, says that Christ descending into the water gave
rather than received,.…illuminating them, and empowering them for
a type of what was to be accomplished in Him.” According to
the Ebionite Gospel of St. Matthew in Epiphanius
(Hær. xxx. Ebionitæ. c. 13), when
Jesus came up out of the water a great light shone around the
place: a tradition to which the Benedictine Editor thinks the
reading φώτων may refer.
Justin M. (Dialog. c. lxxxviii.): “When Jesus had
stepped into the water, a fire was kindled in the Jordan.”
Otto quotes the legend, as found in Orac. Sibyll. vii.
81–83:—
῞Ος σε
Λόγον
γέννησε
Πατήρ Πνεῦμ᾽
ὄρνιν
ἄφηκεν,
᾽Οξὺν
ἀπαγγελτῆρα
λόγων, Λόγον
ὕδασιν
ἁγνοῖς
῾Ραίνων, σὸν
Βάπτισμα δι᾽
οὗ πυρὸς
ἐξεφαάνθης
. of His Godhead to
the waters, He came up from them; and the Holy Ghost in the fulness of
His being οὐσιώδης
ἐπιφοίησις
ἐγένετο. The
Benedictine Editor understands this phrase as an allusion to the
descent of the Holy Ghost on Jesus in a substantial bodily form.
So Gregory Nazianzen (Orat xliv. 17), says that the Holy
Ghost descended on the Apostles οὐσιωδῶς
καὶ
σωματικῶς.
But Anastasius Sinaita interprets οὐσιωδῶς in this
latter passage as meaning “in the essence and reality of His
(Divine ) Person:” and this latter sense agreeing with the
frequent use of οὐσιωδής
by Athanasius is well rendered by Canon Mason (The Relation of
Confirmation to Baptism, p. 343, “in the fulness of His
being.” lighted on Him,
like resting upon like Cf. Greg. Naz.
Orat. xxxix: “The Sprit also bears witness to His
Godhead, for he comes to that which is like Himself.”. And to you
in like manner, after you had come up from the pool of the sacred
streams, there was given an Unction Cf. Tertullian, De
Baptismo, c. 7: “Exinde egressi de lavacro perungimur
benedictâ unctione.” It is clear that the Unction
mentioned in these passages was conferred at the same time and place as
Baptism. Whether it formed part of that Sacrament, or was
regarded by Cyril as a separate and independent rite, has been made a
matter of controversy. See Index, “Chrism.”, the anti-type
of that wherewith Christ was anointed; and this is the Holy Ghost; of
whom also the blessed Esaias, in his prophecy respecting Him, said in
the person of the Lord, The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because
He hath anointed Me: He hath sent Me to preach glad tidings to
the poor Is. lxi. 1..