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It is clear from the writings of Tertullian and The Apostolic Tradition that the catechumenate with its exorcisms, renunciations, scrutinites, and laying on of hands involved a process of separating would-be Christians from the concrete manifestations of the demonic in daily life. Alistair Stewart-Sykes sees in this fact the meaning of the postbaptismal laying on of hands, usually by the bishop. Baptism my be construed as liberation from slavery to sin, death, and the power of the devil. The laying on of hands is a symbol of this freedom and new relationship.
In Roman society the ritual gesture of manumission was used before a magistrate such as a proconsul to effect officially the freeing of a slave from bondage to the master. But not all ties with the master were severed, and this affects the interpretation of the postbaptismal laying on of hands The freed slave was now a client of the former master, who became his or her patron. In the client-patron relationship, the freed slave could expect to receive economic support from the patron, and the patron could expect to receive social or political support from the client. Soclose was the client-patron relationship that the client was regarded as a part of the patron's extended family and could even be buried in the patron's burial plot; the client, for his part, was expected to render obsequium (the giving of servile flattery) to the patron.
So pervasive was this social relationship in Roman or romanized societies, such as that of North Africa, that it is impossible to imagine that manumission was practiced in Christian initiation without this implying some form of patron-client relationship...
(Frank C. Senn. The People's Work: A Social History of the Liturgy. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006, p. 33)