Aaronic blessing = election in Christ; face of God; peace through exalted Son
Cyril: …Lord make his face shine upon you, and pity you, Lord lift his face upon you, and give you peace.’ So then the blessing keeps loosing the curse, and remolding the having-sinned, unto needing to be praised in Christ; and of this Paul is witness having written thus: ‘Blessed the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one who has blessed us in every spiritual blessing, in the heavenly things in Christ, just as he chose us in him before casting-down of world, for us to be holy and unblemished before him; in love having pre-marked us unto adoption through Christ unto him.’ (Numbers 6:24–26) You see that the rejectable through the sin has fled, and the human acceptable unto adoption being blessed in Christ through participation of the Spirit, which also he has poured out unto us richly, the one not from part gifting it to the saints, but as from his own fullness putting in. And appearance of face of God would at once procure the needing to be pitied, if at least… good for those believing unto him both having set forth and gifting. ‘For peace,’ he says, ‘my peace I give you, peace my peace I leave you.’ (Ephesians 1:3–5) For when as it were the Father has set the Son high, having gifted him a name the above every name, and ‘Sit from my right,’ (John 14:27) saying, then indeed, then having loosed the enmity distancing us, we have been joined unto peace, through having chosen to think his things, and in Spirit to (Philippians 2:9) (Psalm 110:1)
Greek
φάναι Κύριος τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ σὲ, καὶ ἐλεήσαι σε, ἐπάραι Κύριος τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ σὲ, καὶ δώῃ σοι εἰρήνην.» Φυλάττει μὲν οὖν ἡ εὐλογία παραλύουσα τὴν ἀρὰν, καὶ ἀναπλάττουσα τὸ ἡμαρτηκὸς, εἰς τὸ ἐπαινεῖσθαι δεῖν ἐν Χριστῷ· καὶ τούτου μάρτυς ὁ Παῦλος ὡδὶ γεγραφώς· «Εὐλογητὸς ὁ Θεὸς καὶ Πατὴρ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὁ εὐλογήσας ἡμᾶς ἐν πάσῃ εὐλογίᾳ πνευματικῇ, ἐν τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις ἐν Χριστῷ, καθὼς ἐξελέξατο ἡμᾶς ἐν αὐτῷ πρὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου, εἶναι ἡμᾶς ἁγίους καὶ ἀμώμους κατ' ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ· ἐν ἀγάπῃ προορίσας ἡμᾶς εἰς υἱοθεσίαν διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰς αὐτόν.» Ὁρᾷς ὅτι τὸ ἀπόβλητον διὰ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἔφυ, καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωπος δεκτὸς εἰς υἱοθεσίαν εὐλογούμενος ἐν Χριστῷ διὰ μετοχῆς τοῦ Πνεύματος, ὃ καὶ ἐξέχεεν εἰς ἡμᾶς πλουσίως, ὁ μὴ ἐκ μέρους αὐτὸ τοῖς ἁγίοις δωρούμενος, ἀλλ' ὡς ἐξ ἰδίου πληρώματος ἐντιθείς. Ἐπιφάνεια δὲ προσώπου Θεοῦ προξενήσειεν ἂν αὐτίκα τὸ ἐλεῖσθαι δεῖν, εἴπερ ἐστὶν ἀληθὲς, ὡς ἔν γε τῷ γνῶναι Θεὸν τὸ χρῆναι μεταλαχεῖν τῆς αἰωνίου ζωῆς εἰσβήσεται. Οὕτω γὰρ ἔφασκεν ὁ Σωτὴρ πρὸς τὸν ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς Πατέρα καὶ Θεόν· «Αὕτη δέ ἐστιν ἡ αἰώνιος ζωὴ, ἵνα γινώσκωσί σε τὸν μόνον ἀληθινὸν Θεὸν, καὶ ὃν ἀπέστειλας Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν.» Ὅτι δὲπρόσωπον τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρός ἐστιν ὁ Υἱὸς, ὃς καὶ ἐπέφανεν ἡμῖν, ἐνδοιάσαι τις ἂν ἥκιστά γε, καθάπερ ἐγᾦμαι· χαρακτὴρ γάρ ἐστι καὶ ὁμοίωσις καὶ εἰκὼν αὐτοῦ, γινώσκομεν δὲ δι' αὐτοῦ τε καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ τὸν Πατέρα, συνεισθέοντος δὲ ἀναγκαίως τῇ τοιᾷδε γνώσει καὶ τοῦ ἐλεεῖσθαι δεῖν· Δεδικαιώμεθα γὰρ ἐν πίστει, καὶ οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων τῶν ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ, ἃ ἐποιήσαμεν ἡμεῖς, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸ πολὺ αὐτοῦ ἔλεος, ἀπεφορτισάμεθά τε τὴν φθορὰν, καὶ εἰς καινότητα ζωῆς ἐν Χριστῷ μετεστοιχίσμεθα, κατοικτείροντος Θεοῦ. Καὶ καθ' ἕτερον δὲ τρόπον, εἰ πρὸς Ἰουδαίους τοῦ λόγου τὴν δύναμιν παρατρέποιμεν, ἠλέηνται κατὰ τὸ ἀληθὲς, ἐπιλάμψαντος αὐτοῖς τοῦ Μονογενοῦς. Ἐπέκειτο μὲν γὰρ αὐτοῖς δύσοιστον ὥσπερ τι καὶ ἀπόβλητον ἄχθος, ὁ κατακρίνων νόμος, καὶ οἰκτιρμοῦ δίχα κολάζων τοὺς ἁμαρτάνοντας. Ἠλέηνται δὲ, τὴν δικαιοῦσαν χάριν ὀψὲ καὶ μόλις διὰ Χριστοῦ κερδαίνοντες, οὗ καὶ τὴν ἄφιξιν ἰδεῖν γλιχόμενοι, πρὸς τὸν τῶν ὅλων Θεὸν ἐκεκράγεισαν, «Ὁ Θεὸς τῶν δυνάμεων, ἐπίστρεψον ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἐπίφανον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου, καὶ σωθησόμεθα.» Ἠλεήμεθα δὴ οὖν οἱ πάντες ἐν ἐπιφανείᾳ Χριστοῦ. Καὶ μέντοι καὶ ἔπαρσις τοῦ προσώπου τοῦ Θεοῦ πρόξενος εἰρήνης, ἧς ἐστι δοτὴρ καὶ βραβευτὴς ὁ Χριστὸς, ὡς ἴδιον ἀγαθὸν τοῖς πιστεύουσιν εἰς αὐτὸν καὶ προθεὶς καὶ δωρούμενος. «Εἰρήνην» γὰρ, φησὶν, «τὴν ἐμὴν δίδωμι ὑμῖν, εἰρήνην τὴν ἐμὴν ἀφίημι ὑμῖν.» Ὅτε γὰρ οἱονεί πως ὑψοῦ τέθεικε τὸν Υἱὸν ὁ Πατὴρ, χαρισάμενος αὐτῷ ὄνομα τὸ ὑπὲρ πᾶν ὄνομα, «Κάθου τε ἐκ δεξιῶν μου,» λέγων, τότε δὴ, τότε τὴν διιστᾶσαν ἡμᾶς καταλύσαντες ἔχθραν, συνήφθημεν εἰς εἰρήνην, διὰ τοῦ φρονεῖν ἑλέσθαι τὰ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐν Πνεύματι περιπα
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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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