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What the Fathers say

Leviticus 8:12

Eastern Fathers

Cyril of Jerusalem

You must know that this chrism [chrismation] is prefigured in the Old Testament. When Moses, conferring on his brother the divine appointment, was ordering him high priest, he anointed him after he had bathed in water, and thenceforward he was called "christ" ["anointed"], clearly after the figurative Chrism.

Catechetical Lecture 3.6 ↗