Ordeal types Christ’s judgment seat; barley vs wheat gift

Cyril: …the woman, and she should be clean, and she will be guiltless, and she will seed-out seed.’ These things at least, the law. And I would say that having brought-together very well the about the having-been-written leisurely in few thoughts, the divine Paul writes for us: ‘For all us must be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, in order that each may receive-back the through the body toward what he practiced either good things, or worthless.’ (Numbers 5:28)

Palladius: I think these have been said rightly; yet clarify finely the upon each of the having-been-legislated.

Cyril: The woman in suspicions of having been adulterated, whenever she should endure a deserted writing of convicting, he has ordered to be led toward the priest, and indeed also to have stood in eyes of God, and this, I think, is the all about to be stood-beside for the Christ; then the gift being brought-near over her barley flour, not having been sprinkled-through with frankincense, not having been soaked with oil; for it is a sacrifice of jealousy, reminding sin. So then clear that as it were some smell of each one’s life goes-up toward God, for those having been relaxed unto the easy bringing-on the writing upon all the most outlandish things, and for those at least having been eager very best to live rightly, witnessing-upon the genuine. In this way we say, and very reasonably, of those not being in suspicions, the gifts have the fine-flour from wheats, with frankincense being present, and indeed also oil being poured-down. For there will altogether follow for the still human life, of which also a type would be the fine-flour from wheats, the needing to be reckoned in sweet-fragrance and cheerfulness beside at least the virtue-loving God. And of a bastard and cattle-fitting life a sign would become also very clear, the barley flour; for somehow more cattle-fitting, and not resembling a human very much, the unrestrained unto appetite, and the wishing to go unbridled unto outlandish pleasures. In this way barley flour, the woman being charged upon a bastard life, was bringing-near to God, without frankincense and oil, that is, of sweet-fragrance and cheerfulness; for it is a sacrifice reminding sin. And where a reminder of sin, how or from where would the cheerful be? For not in hope of crowns the one being judged, but in fear of justice and fire. And toward these at least, uncovered the woman is brought-near to the judge, that is, not in the customary and fitting adornment. And what word would there be of this? For of disorder the charges, and of abomination the writing. And remember that an uncovered woman he does not allow to pray to God, Paul being law-learned, having taken the needing for her to be covered-down the law of the nature unto a showing. ‘For the hair,’ (Jeremiah 23:23–24) he says, ‘instead of a wrap-around has been given to her.’ (2 Corinthians 5:10) So then no longer was the little-woman in adornment, having been slandered upon disorder. And uncovered also otherwise; for bare in eyes of the judging one are the all things, and no one at all would escape the one searching hearts and kidneys, and through a prophet’s voice saying thus: ‘A God drawing-near I am, says Lord, and not a God from far. Will something be hidden from me?’ (1 Corinthians 11:15) Yet that Christ is the judging one, he under-shows again riddlingly. For water, he said, both living and clean’