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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
What had been said was not enough. For those sayings indeed were sufficient to bring them to faith; but these are to show what things the believer behooves to do. And he said not, In the Cross, but, "In the name of Jesus Christ let every one of you be baptized." And he does not put them continually in mind of the Cross, that he may not seem to reproach them, but he says simply, "Repent: and why? That we may be punished? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Although the question was posed to all the apostles, "Peter" again answers — since the apostles themselves preferred his mouth — and says: "Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ." These words do not contradict the following words of the Gospel: "Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matt. …
Oecumenius
As the mouth of all the apostles put forward, Peter says, Repent and be baptized, not believe, but, "Be baptized." For this is the foundation of those who believe in Christ. Therefore he requires this first, and after this he brings the end toward the foundation, saying "the gift of the Holy Spirit," as revealed through this faith.
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Hence Peter, when he saw some affrighted by consideration of their evil deeds, admonished them, saying, Repent, and be baptized every one of you. For, being about to speak of baptism, he spoke first of the lamentations of penitence; that they should first bathe themselves in the water of their own affliction, and afterwards wash themselves in the sacrament of baptism. …
Bede
And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children, as the Lord says through the prophet: I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy (Joel II). And what he added: And to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call, refers to that final testimony placed from the prophet, that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved (Ibid.). …
Bonaventure
Since the power that restores us is the power of the whole Trinity, which holy mother Church believes in the mind, confesses in word, and professes in sign, under the distinction and property, order and natural origin of the three persons: hence it is that for the expression of these things in the Sacrament which is the first of all Sacraments, and in which this power operates firstly and principally, there ought to be an expression of the Trinity in a distinct, proper, and ordered naming, as regards the common form, although in the …
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