... upon entering the waters of baptism, you took off your garment, and this was a figure of 'stripping off the old man and his works'. You stripped, and were naked, in this also imitating Christ, Who was naked upon the Cross.... May the soul that has once put off that old self never again put it on, but say with the Bride in the Song of Songs, "I have put off my garment; how then shall I put it on?" 

- St Cyril, Mystagogical Catechesis 2:2