Tertullian,
ibid. “Just as after the waters of the deluge, by
which the old iniquity was purged—after the baptism, so to say,
of the world—a dove was the herald which announced to the earth
the assuagement of celestial wrath,.…so to our flesh, as it
emerges from the font after its old sins, flies the dove of the Holy
Spirit, bringing us the peace of God, sent out from heaven where the
Church is, the typified ark.” Compare also Hippolytus,
The Holy Theophany, §§ 8, 9, a treatise with which
Cyril has much in common.