Sons’ tunics/girdles; linen trousers; consecrate with calf and rams
Cyril: …thin has the warlike gear come to be, both headdress and belt. So then with a priest-fitting adornment he shows Aaron bright and worthy-of-marvel. And he orders further saying: ‘And for the sons of Aaron you will make tunics and belts, and headdresses you will make for them unto honor and glory. And you will put them on Aaron your brother, and his sons with him. And you will anoint them, and fill their hands, and sanctify them, that they may priest for me. And you will make for them linen trousers to cover shame of their skin, from loin until thighs it will be. And Aaron will have them and his sons, when they enter into the tent of the testimony, or when they approach to liturgize toward the altar of the holy. And they will not bring sin upon themselves, that they may not die. An age-long lawful thing for him and for his seed after him.’ (Exodus 28:40–43) You see that also for those from Aaron themselves it is fitting to be seen as at least in the warlike shape. For fight-ready is the sacred race altogether…
Cyril: Thus it holds; and with such a stole he beautifies the sacred and chosen race, and sanctifies also otherwise, as still in shadow, yet in Christ. For it has been written thus: ‘And these are what you will do for them, to sanctify them so as for them to priest for me: you will take one calf from cattle, and two unblemished rams, and unleavened breads mixed in oil, and unleavened cakes anointed in oil. Fine flour from wheat (Exodus 29:1–2) (Exodus 28:42) (Exodus 29:1)
Greek
ἰσχνῆς τὴν πολεμικὴν γενέσθαι σκευὴν, κίδαρίν τε καὶ ζώνην. Κόσμῳ μὲν οὖν ἱεροπρεπεῖ λαμπρόν τε καὶ ἀξιάγαστον ὑποφαίνει τὸν Ἀαρών. Προσεπιτάττει δὲ λέγων· «Καὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἀαρὼν ποιήσεις χιτῶνας καὶ ζώνας, καὶ κιδάρεις ποιήσεις αὐτοῖς εἰς τιμὴν καὶ δόξαν. Καὶ ἐνδύσεις αὐτὰ Ἀαρὼν τὸν ἀδελφόν σου, καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ μετ' αὐτοῦ. Καὶ χρίσεις αὐτοὺς, καὶ ἐμπλήσεις αὐτῶν τὰς χεῖρας, καὶ ἁγιάσεις αὐτοὺς, ἵνα ἱερατεύωσί μοι. Καὶ ποιήσεις αὐτοῖς περισκελῆ λινᾶ καλύψαι ἀσχημοσύνην χρωτὸς αὐτῶν, ἀπὸ ὀσφύος ἕως μηρῶν ἔσται. Καὶ ἕξει Ἀαρὼν αὐτὰ καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ, ὅταν εἰσπορεύωνται εἰς τὴν σκηνὴν τοῦ μαρτυρίου, ἢ ὅταν προσπορεύωνται λειτουργεῖν πρὸς τὸ θυσιαστήριον τοῦ ἁγίου. Καὶ οὐκ ἐπάξονται πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς ἁμαρτίαν, ἵνα μὴ ἀποθάνωσι. Νόμιμον αἰώνιον αὐτῷ καὶ τῷ σπέρματι αὐτοῦ μετ' αὐτόν.» Ὁρᾷς ὅτι καὶ αὐτοῖς τοῖς ἐξ Ἀαρὼν ἐμπρέπει τὸ, ὡς ἔν γε τῷ πολεμικῷ καθορᾶσθαι σχήματι. Μάχιμον γὰρ τὸ ἱερὸν ἅπαν ἐστὶ γένος, καὶ οὐ πρὸς αἷμα καὶ σάρκα στρατεύεσθαί τε καὶ ἀντεξάγειν εἰδὸς, ἀλλὰ τῆς βεβήλου κατακωλύειν ἁμαρτίας, ἐμφανέστατά τε καὶ λογικῶς τῶν τῆς ἀληθείας δογμάτων ὑπερμαχόμενον, καὶ αἰχμαλωτίζον πᾶν νόημα εἰς τὴν ὑπακοὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ, καθὰ γέγραπται. Περισκελές τε λινοῦν αὐτοῖς, τὸ ἀκαλλές τε καὶ ἄσχημον τῶν περὶ μηροὺς κατασκιάζον εὖ μάλα. Σεμνὰ γὰρ εὖ μάλα πάντα τὰ τῶν ἀγίων, καὶ ἄσχημον ἐν αὐτοῖς οὐδέν· ὑποσημαίνει δέ πως τὸ λινοῦν τοῖς περιμηροῖς τοῦ σώματος μέρεσιν ἐπενηνεγμένον, ὅτι τοῖς ἁγίοις πρεπωδεστάτη τῶν τῆς σαρκὸς ἡδονῶν ἡ ἀπόψυξις· ψυχρὸν γὰρ τὸ λινοῦν. Τὸ δὲ θερμὸν εἰς ὀρέξεις τὰς μυσαρωτάτας, ὁσίου παντὸς ἀλλότριον. Ἐκ λίνου δὲ καὶ ἑτέρως τοῖς ἱερᾶσθαι λαχοῦσιν, ἄμφιά τε καὶ περισκελῆ. Νεκρῶν γὰρ ἔργων ἀποφοιτᾷν ἀναγκαῖον αὐτούς· σύμβολον δὲ νεκρότητος ὡς ἐκ θνησειδίου ληφθὲν, φημὶ δὴ προβάτου. Νεκρῶν οὖν ἔργων ἀπόθεσις, ὡς ἐν τύπῳ πάλιν, τὸ τοῖς ἐκ λίνου ἐστάλθαι, καὶ οὐχὶ δὴ μᾶλλον τοῖς ἐξ ἐρίων ἐσθήμασι· καὶ τοῦτο νόμος ἅγιος ὁ διηνεκής. Ἕψεται δὲ ὅτι πάντη τε καὶ πάντως τὸ ἐκτεθνάναι δεῖν, ἠμεληκόσι τοῦ πρέποντος, Καὶ τῆς ὅτι μάλιστα πρεπούσης αὐτοῖς εὐκοσμίας, διαμεμήνυκεν εἰπὼν ὅ τι χρὴ φοροῦντας ἱερουργεῖν· Καὶ οὐκ ἐπάξονται, φησὶ, πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς ἁμαρτίαν, ἵνα μὴ ἀποθάνωσιν.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Ἀσφαλὴς ὁ νόμος τὸ ἑκάστῳ λυσιτελὲς εὖ μάλα καταδεικνὺς, καὶ τὰ δι' ὧν ἄριστα ἔχοι σαφῆ καθιστάς.
{ΚΥΡ.} Ὧδε ἔχει· καὶ στολῇ μὲν τῇ τοιᾷδε τὸ ἱερὸν καὶ ἀπόλεκτον κατακαλλύνει γένος, ἁγιάζει δὲ καὶ ἑτέρως. ὡς ἐν σκιᾷ μὲν ἔτι, πλὴν ἐν Χριστῷ. Γέγραπται γὰρ δὲ ὡδί· «Καὶ ταῦτά ἐστιν ἃ ποιήσεις αὐτοῖς· ἁγίασαι αὐτοὺς ὥστε ἱερατεύειν μοι αὐτοὺς, λήψῃ μοσχάριον ἐκ βοῶν ἓν, καὶ κριοὺς δύο ἀμώμους, καὶ ἄρτους ἀζύμους πεφυραμένους ἐν ἐλαίῳ, καὶ λάγανα ἄζυμα κεχρισμένα ἐν ἐλαίῳ. Σεμίδαλιν ἐκ πυ
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Cyril continues the dialogue with Palladius. Book 11 of a seventeen-book dialogue — not the whole work.
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