When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other things which they have received and hold, like the washing of cups, pitchers, copper vessels, and couches. Mark 7:4.
[ADDRESSED TO JEWS:] We Christians do not receive that useless baptism of cisterns, for it has nothing to do with our baptism of life. Justin Martyr (c. 160, E), 1.203.
The Jewish Israel bathes daily, because it is daily being defiled. Tertullian (c. 198, W), 3.676.
Even the Jewish nation had wicked heresies. . . . The Hemerobaptists do not eat unless daily they wash. And unless they cleanse their beds, tables, platters, cups, and seats, they do not use any of those things. Apostolic Constitutions (compiled c. 390, E), 7.452.
Do not seek after Jewish separations or perpetual washings. Apostolic Constitutions (compiled c. 390, E), 7.464.