Ephesians 5:26

Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third

For the tower was founder on the word of the almighty and glorious Name and it is kept together by the invisible power of the Lord."[15]

Tertullian On Modesty

the laver-"but (that) she may be holy and without reproach; "[226]

Five Books in Reply to Marcion

Sprinkled, by speaking.[227]

Cyprian Epistle LXXV

Moreover, too, the Apostle Paul, more openly and clearly still manifesting this same thing, writes to the Ephesians, and says, "Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water."[8]

Methodius Discourse III. Thaleia

and slept in the trance of His passion, and willingly suffered death for her, that He might present the Church to Himself glorious and blameless, having cleansed her by the laver,[23]