Tertullian

“ Then, over our cleansed and blessed bodies willingly descends from the Father that Holiest Spirit. Over the waters of baptism, recognising as it were His primeval seat, [8] He reposes: (He who) glided down on the Lord “in the shape of a dove,” [9] in order that the nature of the Holy Spirit might be declared by means of the creature (the emblem) of simplicity and innocence, because even in her bodily structure the dove is without literal [10] gall. ”

“ Tertullian has rendered ἀκέραιοι (unmixed) by “simplices,” i.e. without fold.↑ Argumento.↑ Pacem.↑ Paci.↑ Dispositione.↑ See de Orat. iv. ad init.↑ Lavacro.↑ Compare de Idol. xxiv. ad fin.↑ [2 Pet. i. 9; Heb. x. 26, 27, 29. These awful texts are too little felt by modern Christians. They are too often explained away.] ”