NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
John 2:27
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III
But additions of other people's hair are entirely to be rejected, and it is a most sacrilegious thing for spurious hair to shade the head, covering the skull with dead locks. For on whom does the presbyter lay his hand?[114]
Cyprian Epistle LXIX
It is also necessary that he should be anointed who is baptized; so that, having received the chrism,[11]