[221]Riedel misses the meaning of ksms.
[222]Compare Tertullian, On Prayer 18-19 for exaggerations of the same thought.
[223]The “stations” of Tertullian, On Prayer 19.
[224]Exodus 29. 39; 25. 30.
[225]So explicitly in the Ethiopic.
[226]1 Peter 3. 19.
[227]E.g., Galatians 4. 14.
[228]Impurity can also be blown away; compare [20. 8] and (e.g.) Tertullian (l.c.).
[229]Connolly (p. 104) prefers to say that the ceremony “is in some sense an integral part of the one and original baptism”.