Remigius of Auxerre, on Matt 3:5

“Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the country about Jordan:”

“The baptism of John bare a figure of the catechumens. As children are only catechized that they may become meet for the sacrament of Baptism; so John baptized, that they who were thus baptized might afterwards by a holy life become worthy of coming to Christ’s baptism. He baptized in Jordan, that the door of the Kingdom of Heaven might be there opened, where an entrance had been given to the children of Israel into the earthly kingdom of promise.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.