Tertullian,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Ethical…
(1885)
“ 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. ”
