Obedient unto death; second ram blood on ear/hand/foot; test the spirits
Cyril: …has subjected himself to God and Father. ‘For he has become obedient until death,’ (Philippians 2:8) wiping out the charges of the from-Adam desertion, and of the well-persuadedness the fragrance as for all together and for each he has brought forward to God and Father, and through him we have been saved; and witness is Paul having written thus: ‘So then, as through one trespass unto all humans unto condemnation, so also through one righteous-deed unto all humans unto justification of life; for just as through the disobedience of the one human the many were set down sinners, so through the obedience of the one human the many will be set down righteous.’ (Romans 5:18–19) So then you understand that we have been saved as at least in the calf, with Christ having died for us, and we are fragrant to God and Father through his subjection and the life in sanctification; for the blood of the ram was being held toward the holy altar.
Palladius: I understand what you say.
Cyril: And many-manneredly molding the same for us as in shadows: And you will take, he says, the second ram… fighting, and leading-out against the dogmas of uprightness; for this is a fruit of the holy hearing. And indeed John the all-divine somehow says thus for us: ‘Brothers, test the spirits, if it is from God; every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ is not from God, and every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ is from God.’ (Exodus 29:19–20) And a test of words would reasonably be practiced not otherwise rather than unto an ear. So then holy (1 John 4:1–3) (Romans 5:19) (1 John 4:1)
Greek
ὑπέθηκεν ἑαυτὸν τῷ Θεῷ καὶ Πατρί. «Γέγονε γὰρ ὑπήκοος μέχρι θανάτου,» τῆς ἐξ Ἀδὰμ ἀποταξίας ἀφανίζων τὰ ἐγκλήματα, καὶ τῆς εὐπειθείας τὴν εὐωδίαν ὡς ὑπὲρ πάντων τε ἅμα καὶ ὑπὲρ ἑκάστου προσαγήοχε τῷ Θεῷ καὶ Πατρὶ, καὶ δι' αὐτοῦ σεσώσμεθα· καὶ μάρτυς ὁ Παῦλος ὡδὶ γεγραφώς· «Ἄρα οὖν, ὡς δι' ἑνὸς παραπτώματος εἰς πάντας ἀνθρώπους εἰς κατάκριμα, οὕτω καὶ δι' ἑνὸς δικαιώματος εἰς πάντας ἀνθρώπους εἰς δικαίωσιν ζωῆς· ὥσπερ γὰρ διὰ τῆς παρακοῆς τοῦ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου ἁμαρτωλοὶ κατεστάθησαν οἱ πολλοὶ, οὕτω διὰ τῆς ὑπακοῆς τοῦ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου δίκαιοι κατασταθήσονται οἱ πολλοί.» Συνίης οὖν ὅτι σεσώσμεθα μὲν ὡς ἔν γε τῷ μόσχῳ, τεθνεῶτος ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν τοῦ Χριστοῦ, εὐωδιάζομεν δὲ τῷ Θεῷ καὶ Πατρὶ διὰ τῆς ὑποταγῆς αὐτοῦ καὶ τῆς ἐν ἁγιασμῷ ζωῆς· Προσεχεῖτο γὰρ τὸ αἷμα τοῦ κριοῦ τῷ ἁγίῳ θυσιαστηρίῳ.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Συνίημι ὃ φής.
{ΚΥΡ.} Πολυτρόπως δὲ τὸν αὐτὸν ἡμῖν διαπλάττων ὡς ἐν σκιαῖς· Καὶ λήψῃ, φησὶ, κριὸν τὸν δεύτερον, καὶ πράττεται μὲν ἐπ' αὐτῷ κατὰ τὸν πρῶτον ἡ σφαγή. Καταχρίεται δὲ Ἀαρὼν, καὶ τὸ ὑπ' αὐτῷ τῶν ἱερέων ἁγιάζεται στίφος, ἐπιτιθεμένου τοῦ αἵματος ἐπ' ἄκροις χειρὸς καὶ ὠτίου, καὶ μὴν καὶ ποδὸς τῶν δεξιῶν· ἁγιάζεται δὲ καὶ τῶν ἱερέων ἡ στολὴ καταῤῥαντισθεῖσα τῷ αἵματι, εἶτα τοῦ λείποντος ἐπιπροχεομένου τῇ βάσει τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου, κατὰ τὸ Θεῷ δοκοῦν, ἀπολαμβάνεται τά τε ἐντόσθια καὶ ἄζυμος ἄρτος καὶ λάγανον ἕν· ἄμφω δὲ ἦν ἐλαιόδευτα· καὶ προσκομίζουσι μὲν ἐν χερσὶν ἐνθέντες ἰδίαις οἱ ἀμφὶ τὸν Ἀαρὼν, ἀποδέχεται δὲ τὴν θυσίαν καὶ ἀναφέρει Μωσῆς. Δεῖν δὲ πρὸς τούτοις ἔφη βραχίονα καὶ στηθήνιον ἀποτάττεσθαι τῷ ἱερεῖ, καὶ ἐν μοίρᾳ κεῖσθαι τῶν ἀφαιρουμένων. Ὄνομα δὲ τῷ θύματι, κριὸς τελειώσεως. Τεθυμιαμένων δὲ τῶν ἐντοσθίων, τὸ λοιπὸν σὺν ἄρτοις ἐσθίεται σῶμα, πυρὶ κατακαιομένων τῶν εἰς τὸ πρωῒ καταλελειμμένων. Ἔχει γὰρ ὧδε τὸ γράμμα τὸ ἱερόν.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Ὡς βαθὺς ὁ λόγος!
{ΚΥΡ.} Ἔφης ὀρθῶς· βαθὺς γὰρ δὴ λίαν, ὠδίνει δὲ μὴν τὸ Χριστοῦ μυστήριον. Γέγονε γὰρ ἡμῖν κριὸς τελειώσεως εἰς πᾶν ὁτιοῦν τῶν ἀρίστων ἀρτίως ἔχοντας ἀποφαίνων, καὶ ἐκπρεπεστάτους ἐν ἀρεταῖς δι' ἁγιασμοῦ ἐν πνεύματι, καὶ πρό γε τῶν ἄλλων ἀκοὴν μὲν ἐνθεὶς, τὴν εὐλογίας πλήρη, τουτέστι, τὴν εὐπειθῆ καὶ εὐήνιον, καὶ ἐπιτηδείως μὲν ἔχουσαν εἰς παραδοχὴν τῶν περὶ αὐτοῦ δογμάτων, οὐκ ἀνεχομένην δὲ ψιθύρων τερετισμῶν, καὶ μυσαρᾶς ἀθυρογλωσσίας, ἣν ἂν ποιοῖντό τινες τῇ ἀληθείᾳ μαχόμενοι, καὶ τοῖς τῆς ὀρθότητος ἀντεξάγοντες δόγμασιν· ἀκοῆς γὰρ δὴ τοῦτο τῆς ἁγίας καρπός. Καὶ μὴν Ἰωάννης ἡμῖν ὁ θεσπέσιος ὧδέ πή φησιν· «Ἀδελφοὶ, δοκιμάζετε τὰ πνεύματα, εἰ ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστι· πᾶν πνεῦμα ὃ μὴ ὁμολογεῖ Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν, ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ οὐκ ἔστι, καὶ πᾶν πνεῦμα ὃ ὁμολογεῖ Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν, ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστι.» Βάσανος δὲ ῥημάτων πράττοιτο ἂν εἰκότως οὐχ ἑτέρως τέ ποι μᾶλλον ἢ εἰς οὖς. Ἅγιον
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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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