Bird death = union not division; fine-flour sin-gift without oil/frankincense

Cyril: …upon you, and learn from me, that I am meek and humble in the heart.’ (Matthew 11:29) So then he will take the turtle-dove, he says, ‘the priest, and will pinch-off with the nail. For thus are slaughtered the light of the little-birds. Yet, he will not cut-off altogether, clear that the head. For thus the death of Christ has been done, not unto a dividing, but unto a union. Therefore also in beginnings setting a law upon the Pascha, he has ordered the lamb to be sacrificed-down, yet ‘In a house it will be eaten,’ he says, ‘one, and you will not carry-out of his meats outside.’ (Exodus 12:46) For Christ has been divided nowhere, but one wholly and in each and in all he is, and he himself is our peace, gathering us unto a union both the toward one another in same-souledness, and the through himself toward God in Spirit. (Ephesians 2:14) That then not a bringer of dividing, but of union toward us the death of Christ has become, was showing sideways the little-bird being sacrificed, yet not also altogether being sheared of the vertebra the head; and that he sanctifies the Church with his own blood, would signal, the being sprinkled with the blood of the little-bird the tent and the things in it. And one turtle-dove over sin, and one again, unto a whole-burnt-offering, and through both Christ is understood, both dying over us, and being whole-burnt unto a smell of sweet-fragrance for the Father, and indeed also dedicating himself as exchange of the life of all.

Palladius: You spoke well.

Cyril: Yet the law lowers also unto the very easily-obtained manner of the sacrifice; and proportionally to the measures of each he orders to make, cutting-under everywhere the hesitation upon the best things, and making without-excuse for those having chosen the slack. And he writes thus again: ‘And if his hand should not find a yoke of turtle-doves, or two young of doves, also he will bring his gift, about which he sinned, the tenth of the ephah of fine-flour about sin. He will not pour upon it oil, nor will he put upon it frankincense, because it is about sin, and he will bring it toward the priest, and the priest having grasped from it full his grasp, its memorial he will put upon the altar of the whole-burnt-offerings of Lord, it is sin. And the priest will propitiate about him, about his sin, which he sinned from one of these, and it will be forgiven for him. And the leftover will be for the priest, as a sacrifice of the fine-flour.’ (Leviticus 5:11-13) But at least in these, about Christ no longer, but the life of the one bringing-forward, and the approach in Christ, and the dedication unto God, the manner of the sacrifice under-shows for us. For fine-flour is brought-forward a genesis of bread. And a type of life, the bread; but neither with frankincense must it be sprinkled, nor indeed with oil be soaked, he says, announcing-before very well a wise and necessary starting-point of such a thing, because it is about sin, of which far altogether and in every way would be the cheerful, as being understood in oil, and indeed the sweet-smelling, as somehow in frankincense; and it would not be disputed, that a grim and truly unscented thing is the sin in us. And she will grow-rich upon