2.  As soon, then, as ye entered, ye put off your tunic; and this was an image of putting off the old man with his deeds Col. iii. 9..  Having stripped yourselves, ye were naked; in this also imitating Christ, who was stripped naked on the Cross, and by His nakedness put off from Himself the principalities and powers, and openly triumphed over them on the tree Ib. ii. 15.  Cyril’s use of this passage agrees best with the interpretation that Christ, having been clothed with the likeness of sinful flesh during His life on earth, submitted therein to the assaults of the powers of evil, but on the Cross threw off from Himself both it and them..  For since the adverse powers made their lair in your members, ye may no longer wear that old garment; I do not at all mean this visible one, but the old man, which waxeth corrupt in the lusts of deceit Eph. iv. 22..  May the soul which has once put him off, never again put him on, but say with the Spouse of Christ in the Song of Songs, I have put off my garment, how shall I put it on Cant. v. 3.?  O wondrous thing! ye were naked in the sight of all, and were not ashamed See Dict. Christ. Antiq. “Baptism,” § 48:  The Unclothing of the Catechumens:  Bingh. Ant. XI. xi. 1:  All “persons were baptized naked, either in imitation of Adam in Paradise, or our Saviour upon the Cross, or to signify their putting off the body of sin, and the old man with his deeds.”; for truly ye bore the likeness of the first-formed Adam, who was naked in the garden, and was not ashamed.