The former view is stated by the Oxford editor, Milles,
in his note on the words: “And in like manner to you also,
after you had come up from the pool of the sacred waters, there was
given an unction, a figure (ἀντίτυπον
) of that with which Christ was anointed; and that is the Holy
Ghost Mystag. iii.
§ 1..” “It is evident,”
says Milles, “from his words here, that the Chrism of which Cyril
treats in this Lecture is not to be referred to the Unction which is
administered by the Romanists in Confirmation. For every one sees
that by Unction in this passage a ceremony of Baptism is
indicated. The ancients employed two Unctions in Baptism, the
first before the immersion in the water, of which he spoke in the
preceding Lecture; the second immediately upon ascending from the
water, of which he speaks in this Lecture.”