No whore’s wage or dog’s exchange on altar; forced vs willing impurity

Cyril: …bringing-to-end from daughters of Israel, and there will not be a being-brought-to-end from sons of Israel; you will not bring forward a hire of a whore, nor an exchange of a dog into the house of Lord your God toward every vow, because an abomination to Lord your God is even both.’

Palladius: How sharp the law, and of the most beneficial things as much as most!

Cyril: Well done, O Palladius; for you understand rightly. For you would be struck-down, I think, and still more greatly, having thought-through that checking very well the smooth unto pleasures, he sends-away the wanton and unchastened. For see how both for those willing to practice voluntary and self-chosen the defilement upon shamefulness, and indeed also for those accustomed to bring-down others unto this as from necessity, he is seen laying-on, and through the things he denies the needing to do, he finishes them safer, and constructs for them hard-to-find the word able to suffice for defenses. For no longer are the charges of ignorance, but thereafter of easiness and of an unsubmissive mind the writing.

Palladius: How did you speak?

Cyril: For do not some go self-called unto the whoring, and women and youths willing to wage-earn, sell-down the bloom to some men’s unrestraint?

Palladius: Yes.

Cyril: And what? are not some worsted by shameful gains, and having put-forward to those willing their own maidservants, or of the males, whom they might somehow buy-out, the wretched ones silver-collect? about whom also the prophet says: ‘And the girls they were selling instead of wine, and they were drinking.’ (Deuteronomy 23:17–18) For true that unto this measure of worthlessness and uncleanness some arrive, so as to dare unholily to tribute-collect sometimes even such of the shameful things.

Palladius: I understand.

Cyril: So then they whore willingly, some, the themselves being borne outside the evil, then going unto this by own-judgment; and bringing-to-end at least would be those paying tributes as from necessity to others, and collecting the wages from the wantonness for those having bought.

Palladius: You spoke rightly.

Cyril: So then the law denies the matter everywhere, and makes unholy the one having been caught by a writing, and shuts outside sacred tents, and at once shows the divine altar unapproachable for him, saying the sacrifice will be unacceptable, and the vow unreceivable. For true, that not pure are vows from a hire of a whore. And in equal manner he makes hated and most abominable also the exchange of the dog; and a dog, I think, he says, the easy unto uncleanness, and simply lying-on for those approaching; and an exchange of a dog, the somehow being brought forward for him over him. So then let the law cry-upon: ‘There will not be a whore from daughters of Israel, and there will not be a whoring one from sons of Israel.’ (Joel 3:3) And let the most wise Paul sound-with crying: ‘Flee’ (1 Corinthians 6:18)