Partial crush = careless work; humpbacked = earth-bent; white-spot = shameless open vice

Cyril: …the one not wholly able to go unto works, nor indeed having the walking wholly unreproachable, or the energy, the as in citizenship, I mean, and most lawful life. And these again would be either those doing the work of the Lord carelessly, upon whom the woe has been brought through a prophet’s voice, or those pursuing the just not justly, according to what has been written. And observe that to the intelligible and whole lameness, also the moderate maiming of the leg is in equal, and has been reckoned as the same. For to being able to do nothing at all of the good things, the not doing rightly will lie in equal word. And reasonably it would appear in the lameness the not-at-all; and in the crushing the not-healthily.

Palladius: It seems so.

Cyril: And humpbacked, and white-spotted, and thin-lidded the eyes he writes down again as among the most unapproved. And humpbacked we say to be the as it were bent-over, and looking down with mind, and inclined toward the passions of flesh, and fixing the eye upon the earthly things—clear that the intelligible—and going unto this of judgment thereafter, so as to hate being set upright, toward at least the needing to think the things above. And in these would be the charges of the Jews, about whom it has been written: ‘Let their eyes be darkened of the not seeing, and bend together their back through all.’ (Jeremiah 48:10) And white-spotted, the one having the so-called white-spot upon their foreheads. And this sickness blackens in form the look upon the tip of skin. And it takes away from those for whom it should happen to suffer, the even at least being able to escape notice, flowering upon the brows themselves, and hung upon whole faces. So then such a one white-spotted bodily, but intelligibly under-shows the unseemly, nakedly and unhiddenly, and as it were not having a clean face, but the unbeautiful unto life manifest to all, so as perhaps not even to know somewhere the rightly said by one of the wise, ‘Wise will hide their own shames.’ (Colossians 3:2)

Palladius: How did you say?

Cyril: For are there not, O Palladius, myriad as many passions in us?

Palladius: Yes; what then is this?

Cyril: That, O noble one, I say, each is sick what he is sick, but often being worsted by shame toward brothers, he makes in zeal and much word both seeming to be healthy, and escaping notice in evils.

Palladius: You speak well.

Cyril: But if somehow someone should have come unto such shamelessness as to think as nothing also choosing to sin openly, and to spare completely the prizes unto seemliness, would such a one thereafter not seem to someone to have gone far from the sacred and holy race?

Palladius: And very much.

Cyril: So then the law calls such a one white-spotted, as not even knowing and enduring to hide the sickness and passion that happened to him. And thin-lidded the (Psalm 69:23) (Leviticus 21:20) (Sirach 20:26?)