Camel/hare/pig types; works without piety dead; water-creatures begin
Palladius: True.
Cyril: So then he receives unto an example of the not splitting on the one hand the hoof, yet bringing-back the rumination, the camel, an animal both well-strong and over-great, and rough-foot and porcupine, the most small-appearing as a word to say of all the others, through the extremes, as I at least think, having embraced all together, and having released nothing outside of the through the middle. For like as if somehow it should also be said, From the very high and uppermost and until small ones, and of the as much as most lowest, every who at least such is abominable and unclean. For there is not face-taking beside God, according to the having-been-written; but whether someone should be great and haughty, having been lifted unto height with wealth and glory the according to world, he will carry-away the unfamed and unprized vote, being held in the charges of worthlessness; or whether someone should be small, living-with poverty and unglory, he will be condemned toward uncleanness, if he should not boast in the manners unto virtue; nor would someone make a find of the lowliness, the needing to be pitied beside the just Judge, not having the well-fitting in works, clear that the according to piety and virtue. So then a camel on the one hand, and a hare and a porcupine, would be a not unclear type of small and great. And he also brings-beside the swine, as unclean, through at least the splitting on the one hand a hoof, yet not still also having been natural also to chew-up nourishment, that is, to bring-up rumination, showing strengthless and useless the boast in works, without the word the according to piety. For just as the faith without the works is dead, so also the reverse, somehow altogether dead the good-order, and the fair in works, with God-knowledge being absent, and with word the according to piety not having house-dwelt in our souls, and being below, it has nodded-in unto earth, and somehow seems to fear the raising-up above the eye. Some such having suffered we will find not few, who sometimes have a reverend and clean life, yet not having recognized God the by nature and true, as it were somehow only fix the eye of the mind upon the upon the earth. And unclean also such again; ‘For no one is crowned, if he should not contend lawfully,’ (Romans 2:11) according to the having-been-written.
Palladius: So then it defiles us as in a form of a swine, and indeed also of the others, those having been borne-under the slanders from law.
Cyril: Very much so you spoke rightly. And it is not sufficient for the law to bring-beside the images of the unclean, and through at least only also of such somehow, but through as it were all the creation having chosen to benefit us and setting-beside richly the knowledge of the useful and fitting, it also goes-through the kinds of water-ones, and herds of winged ones, in order that busying very well the having grown for each, what on the one hand thereafter would be the pleasing God, and what rejectable and having been hated by him we may have to think-around (James 2:17) (Leviticus 11:4–7) (2 Timothy 2:5)
Greek
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Ἀληθές.
{ΚΥΡ.} Δέχεται τοίνυν εἰς παράδειγμα τοῦ μὴ διχηλοῦντος μὲν τὴν ὁπλὴν, ἀνακομίζοντος δὲ τὸν μηρυκισμὸν, τὴν κάμηλον, ζῶον εὐσθενές τε καὶ ὑπερμέγεθες, δασύποδά τε καὶ χοιρογρύλλιον, τὰ πάντων, ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν, τῶν ἄλλων μικροφανέστατα, διὰ τῶν ἄκρων, καθάπερ ἐγᾦμαι, συλλήβδην ἅπαντα περιλαβὼν, καὶ οὐδὲν ἔξω τῶν διὰ μέσου μεθείς. Ὅμοιον γὰρ ὡς εἰ καὶ λέγοιτο τυχὸν, Ἀπὸ τοῦ λίαν ὑψηλοῦ τε καὶ ἀνωτάτω καὶ μέχρι μικρῶν, καὶ τῶν ὅτι μάλιστα κατωτάτω, πᾶς ὅς γε τοιοῦτος βδελυρὸς καὶ ἀκάθαρτος. Οὐ γάρ ἐστι προσωποληψία παρὰ τῷ Θεῷ, κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον· ἀλλ' εἴτε τις εἴη μέγας καὶ σοβαρὸς, πλούτῳ τε καὶ δόξῃ τῇ κατὰ κόσμον εἰς ὕψος ἠρμένος, τὴν ἀκλεᾶ καὶ ἀγέραστον ἀποίσεται ψῆφον, τοῖς τῆς φαυλότητος αἰτιάμασιν ἐνεχόμενος· εἴτε τις εἴη μικρὸς, πτωχείᾳ τε καὶ ἀδοξίᾳ συζῶν, καταδικασθήσεται πρὸς ἀκαθαρσίαν, εἰ μὴ τοῖς εἰς ἀρετὴν ἐπαυχοίη τρόποις· οὐδ' ἂν εὕρεμά τις ποιήσαιτο τῆς ταπεινότητος, τὸ ἐλεεῖσθαι δεῖν παρὰ τοῦ δικαίου Κριτοῦ, τὸ εὐπρεπὲς ἐν ἔργοις οὐκ ἔχων, τοῖς κατ' εὐσέβειαν δὲ δηλονότι καὶ ἀρετήν. Οὐκοῦν κάμηλος μὲν, λαγώς τε καὶ χοιρογρύλλιος, μικροῦ τε καὶ μεγάλου τύπος ἂν εἶεν οὐκ ἀσυμφανής. Παραφέρει δὲ καὶ τὸν σῦν, ὡς ἀκάθαρτον, διάτοι τὸ διχηλεῖν μὲν ὁπλὴν, οὐ μὴν ἔτι πεφυκότα καὶ ἀναμασᾶσθαι τροφὴν, τοῦτ' ἔστιν, ἀνάγειν μηρυκισμὸν, ἀδρανές τε καὶ ἄχρηστον τὸ ἐν ἔργοις καύχημα, δίχα τοῦ λόγου τοῦ κατ' εὐσέβειαν ἀποφαίνων. Ὥσπερ γὰρ ἡ πίστις χωρὶς τῶν ἔργων νεκρά ἐστιν, οὕτω καὶ τὸ ἔμπαλιν, νεκρά που πάντως ἡ εὐκοσμία, καὶ τὸ ἐν ἔργοις ἐπιεικὲς, ἀπούσης θεογνωσίας, καὶ λόγου τοῦ κατ' εὐσέβειαν ταῖς ἡμετέραις ψυχαῖς οὐκ ἐνῳκηκότος, κάτω δὲ οὖσα, εἰσνένευκεν εἰς γῆν, καὶ δεδιέναι πως δοκεῖ τὸ ἀνίσχειν ἄνω τὸν ὀφθαλμόν. Τοιουτονί τι παθόντας οὐκ ὀλίγους εὑρήσομεν, οἳ σεμνὸν μὲν ἔχουσιν ἔσθ' ὅτε τὸν βίον καὶ καθαρὸν, Θεὸν δὲ τὸν φύσει καὶ ἀληθινὸν οὐκ ἐπεγνωκότες, μόνοις οἱονεί πως τοῖς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς τὸν τῆς διανοίας ὀφθαλμὸν ἐνερείδουσιν. Ἀκάθαρτος δὲ καὶ ὁ τοιόσδε πάλιν· «Στεφανοῦται γὰρ οὐδεὶς, ἐὰν μὴ νομίμως ἀθλήσῃ,» κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Καταμιαίνει τοιγαροῦν ἡμᾶς ὡς ἐν εἴδει συὸς, καὶ μέν τοι καὶ τῶν ἄλλων, ταῖς ἐκ νόμου διαβολαῖς ὑπενηνεγμένους.
{ΚΥΡ.} Πάνυ μὲν οὖν ἔφης ὀρθῶς. Καὶ οὐκ ἀπόχρη τῷ νόμῳ τὰς τῶν ἀκαθάρτων παρακομίζειν εἰκόνας, διὰ δέ γε δὴ μόνων καὶ τῶν τοιῶνδε τυχὸν, διὰ πάσης δὲ ὥσπερ τῆς κτίσεως ἡμᾶς ὠφελεῖν ᾑρημένος καὶ τὴν τοῦ χρησίμου καὶ πρέποντος εἴδησιν πλουσίως παρατιθεὶς, καὶ τὰ ἐνύδρων δίεισι γένη, καὶ πτηνῶν ἀγέλας, ἵνα τὸ ἑκάστῳ προσπεφυκὸς πολυπραγμονοῦντες εὖ μάλα, τί μὲν ἂν εἴη λοιπὸν τὸ ἁνδάνον Θεῷ, τί δὲ ἀπόβλητον καὶ ἀπηχθημένον αὐτῷ περινοεῖν ἔχοιμεν, ἐννομωτάτην δὲ οὕτως ἐπιτηδεύοντες ζωὴν, παντὸς τοῦ καταμιαίνειν εἰωθότος εὐσθενεστάτην ποιώμεθα τὴν ἀποδρομήν. Ἔφη τοίνυν ὁ νόμος
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