For of a truth against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
For Christ took his name from chrism, that is, from annointing.
whom you anointed:
Observe how, even in prayer, they circumstantially describe the Passion, and refer all to God.—That is, Not they had power to do this