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573 of the catechumens. This interpretation of σωτηρία is extremely likely not only because of the octagonal frame and the crown which σωτηρία wears, but because of an inscription found in northern Syria which reads Τὸ λοῦτρον Θωμᾶς τ[οῦ] [ἐγὼ] πᾶσιν σέσωκα τοῖς γεν[ομένοις] σωροῦμενος τὴν μν[ἠ]μην. τί τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ λουτροῦ; Ὑγία. Διὰ τα[ῦτ]α εἰσελθὼν ὁ Χ(ριστὸ)ς ἀνέωξεν ἡμῖν τὸ λοῦτρον ⁵⁷⁴ἀλλ[ά]
Most baths if not all, baths were named. The bath mentioned in this inscription was not the only built in these times, named Ὑγεία or Ἴασις. Now as some baths 577 were named for statues located in them, so ἐπ/ἐπ probably this bath was named for the most emphasized and largest mosaic picture- Σωτηρία · Ὑγεία - Ἴασις 575 or salvation is very close in meaning to ὑγεία. Clement 578 is called σωτὴρ τε καὶ ἰατρὸς, and in the psalms of Heraleides, Christ is called in the same sentence, the physician of souls and the Saviour, (σωτὴρ) ⁵⁷⁹. The Ἀπόλλωνις of the cold bath is probably connected with baptism and with ϭωτηρία · Theodoret ⁵⁸⁰ in connection with baptism wrote ἀπολλωνίων, τῆς σωτηρίας τεύξεται. Nor is this the only mention of a connection between ἀπόλλωνις and baptism. For example, the provision of the
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