{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030729.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030729.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030729.htm","text":"After this, when we have issued from the font, 8593 we are thoroughly anointed with a blessed unction,\u2014(a practice derived) from the old discipline, wherein on entering the priesthood, men were wont to be anointed with oil from a horn, ever since Aaron was anointed by Moses. 8594 Whence Aaron is called \u201cChrist,\u201d 8595 from the \u201cchrism,\u201d which is \u201cthe unction;\u201d which, when made spiritual, furnished an appropriate name to the Lord, because He was \u201canointed\u201d with the Spirit by God the Father; as written in the Acts: \u201cFor truly they were gathered together in this city 8596 against Thy Holy Son whom Thou hast anointed.\u201d 8597 Thus, too, in our case, the unction runs carnally, (i.e. on the body,) but profits spiritually; in the same way as the act of baptism itself too is carnal, in that we are plunged in water, but the effect spiritual, in that we are freed from sins.\nSee Exod. 29:7, Lev. 8:12, Ps. 33:2.\n672:8595\ni.e. \u201cAnointed.\u201d Aaron, or at least the priest, is actually so called in the LXX., in Lev. 4:5, 16, \u1f41 \u1f31\u03b5\u03c1\u03b5\u1f7a\u03c2 \u1f41 \u03a7\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03cc\u03c2: as in the Hebrew it is the word whence Messiah is derived which is used.\n672:8596 672:8597\nActs iv. 27. \u201cIn this city\u201d (\u1f10\u03bd \u03c4\u1fc7 \u03c0\u03cc\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b1\u03cd\u03c4\u1fc3) is omitted in the English version; and the name \u1fbd\u0399\u03b7\u03c3\u03bf\u1fe6\u03bd, \u201cJesus,\u201d is omitted by Tertullian. Compare Acts 10:38, Lev. 4:18, Isa. 61:1 in the LXX.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part III: Of th...","type":"page"}