Tertullian On Prayer The first infusion of the Holy Spirit into the congregated disciples took place at "the third hour."[166] Tertullian On Fasting hour is demonstrated as an hour of prayer, about which hour it was that they who had received the initiatory gift of the Holy Spirit were held for drunkards;[78] Polycrates of Ephesus They were keeping it "unleavened" ceremonially, and he urges a spiritual unleavening as more important. The Christian hallowing of Pentecost connects with the Paschal argument.[5]