Bodily ills type spiritual; leper = flesh works; flux begins

Cyril: …one must pity those having fallen into such misfortunes; for in return for what then would someone puzzle also very reasonably, that he was making the leper houseless and sendable-away, and indeed toward these also the one held-down by a passion of flux-flow, and again the unclean upon soul?

Palladius: I would not have to understand, and you yourself would perhaps speak.

Cyril: So then I think that of the things in thickness and bodily matters there was not a very great word beside God, for the one pre-forming for us the divine and spiritual worship. For the things outside law are punished, and as many as appear having stepped out of the fitting, these I would say are under judgment and justice, but a bodily sickness would in no manner strike against the laws. So then it will lie reasonably also farthest from a writing, and the being charged toward someone it would not have from anywhere; or is it not clear for everyone, that no one is sick willingly, and everyone then, I think, makes being well-strong most wishable?

Palladius: Truly.

Cyril: So then even if the word should have something unbeautiful of the history, the grieving is nothing, if the spiritual things should be led through well toward at least what seems good to the lawgiver. So then leprosy is a dying of flesh, and the passion most devouring. Therefore also the all-divine Moses, with Miriam having been leproused for him, having become fearful, and very cheerless, was entreating, saying: ‘O God, I beg you, heal her,’ (Galatians 5:19–20) for he said: ‘Let her not become as a miscarriage going out from a mother’ (Numbers 12:13)s womb, and it will eat down the half of her fleshes.’ And a flux-flowing, what would I say, of what sort the passion? for no one has been ignorant. And at least that some are unclean upon soul, signals some such thing: the touching a departed one and becoming near a dead body, the law was reckoning for the more ancient ones unto a manner of defilement, showing the deadness hated to God the one able to make-alive all things. And indeed also otherwise, receiving the matter unto a dying of mind and soul as in a thick type. And a dead and cooled-out mind, the sin-loving, and accustomed to be without-share of the manly-acts unto life. But if it happened for some to have died, somehow every necessity, for those own from blood and according to race to understand and to do upon him the things having been customed; yet unclean also these according to the law, and not altogether and unto all, but there was for them some manner of cleansing-back. You have a sufficient clarifying of the history.

Palladius: And very much.

Cyril: So then come, transforming it unto spiritual contemplation, let us say that: that the leper signals for us the one having been spotted with varied passions unto youthfulness. And these are the works of the flesh, which also the most wise Paul himself was numbering for us saying: ‘Fornication, uncleanness, idolatry, enmities, strife, angers, jealousies.’ (Numbers 12:12) And another at least,