Theophilus to Autolycus Book I

r house is beautiful and serviceable when it has not been anointed? And what man, when he enters into this life or into the gymnasium, is not anointed with oil? And what work has either ornament or beauty unless it be anointed and burnished? Then the air and all that is under heaven is in a certain sort anointed by light and spirit; and are you unwilling to be anointed with the oil of God? Wherefore we are called Christians on this account, because we are anointed with the oil of God.[18]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and indignation, and clamour, and blasphemy, be taken away from you."[415]

2 Clement

What then think ye? If one does anything unseemly in the incorruptible contest, what shall he have to bear? For of those who do not preserve the seal"[60]

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