Here again we have (1) the ‘res sacramenti,’
the anointing of Christ with the Holy Ghost at His Baptism, (2) the
sacramental sign or figure, the anointing of the baptized, and (3) the
spiritual benefit received in the gift of the Holy Ghost, for, as Cyril
adds at the end of § 3, “while Thy body is anointed with the
visible ointment, thy soul is sanctified by the Holy and Life-giving
Spirit.” In these passages we see a distinction between
τύπος and
ἀντίτυπος.
The former is simply the outward sign or figure; the latter includes
with the sign the spiritual counterpart in us of the thing signified,
the benefits of Christ’s Passion in the one case, the gift of the
Holy Ghost in the other.