Book 14 opens: churchgoers must be washed of sin’s stain
ON ADORATION AND WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH — BOOK FOURTEEN. That those willing to frequent in churches must be clean and washed-out as to the stain from sin, and thus stand beside God.
Cyril: So then concerning the tent and indeed also concerning priests and Levitical under-service these things seem to me to have been said most sufficiently, and I think to have been examined finely. Fit
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ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΕΝ ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΗΣΕΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΤΡΕΙΑΣ ΛΟΓΟΣ ΤΕΣΣΑΡΑΚΛΙΔΕΚΑΤΟΣ Ὅτι χρὴ τοὺς φοιτᾷν ἐθέλοντας ἐν ἐκκλησίαις, καθαροὺς καὶ ἐκνενιμμένους εἶναι τὴν ἐξ ἁμαρτίας κηλίδα, καὶ οὕτω παρίστασθαι τῷ Θεῷ. Σκηνῆς μὲν οὖν πέρι καὶ μέν τοι καὶ περὶ ἱερέων καὶ Λευιτικῆς ὑπουργίας διαρκέστατά μοι ταῦτα λελέχθαι φαίνεται, καὶ λεπτῶς διεσκέφθαι δοκῶ. Πρέ
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Cyril continues the dialogue with Palladius. Book 14 of a seventeen-book dialogue — not the whole work.
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