5. After this the
Holy of holies
“Holy of holies,” a figurative name given to the
baptistery. Comp. St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Cat. Lect. XIX.
11; and with this whole treatise the last four Catechetical Lectures of
St. Cyril of Jerusalem in this series, Vol. VII. p. 144 ff. was opened
to you, you entered the sanctuary of regeneration; recall what you were
asked, and remember what you answered. You renounced the devil
and his works, the world with its luxury and pleasures. That
utterance of yours is preserved not in the tombs of the dead, but in
the book of the living.