Leprosy vs whiteness; spiritual dead works to flee

Cyril: …‘it is leprosy.’ (Leviticus 13:3) Thin-myth on the one hand the matter is, O Palladius, and not ready to grasp the upon these word. And necessary I think having brought-together the mind, as in few to say, the what the law would wish to make-clear. And I will explain-before for now of the passion the difference. Leprosy on the one hand for human bodies is a most-hard passion, and hard-to-escape and devouring; and it happens according to a dying. For the wound is hollowed immediately, of the skin being spent, and unto depth always settling-together; inasmuch as, also of the decay always creeping-through toward the below. Whence indeed, as I at least think, also the hair blooming-upon the places withering, is whitened, and as it were some plant with the underlying is corrupted-together with earth. Leprosy on the one hand such a passion. And whiteness again, a fleshly weakness resembling leprosy, yet it does not send the distressing unto depth, nor indeed does it send-in to the insides of the disease the sense, but it floats as it were on an extremity, and scarcely blooming-upon the body, and not even hair does it change unto the white, nor indeed unrestrainedly is it widened, but with few altogether the helps easily it is reined-back, and withdraws toward healthy the blooming-upon flesh. So then the leprosy on the one hand, a confessed dying, and in suspicions somehow of the leprosy the whiteness, not indeed still also the same according to truth, leprosy and dying. So then the law votes-down of the leper the unclean, as already having suffered the dying. And he releases of the charge, the one having been weak with whiteness, as in suspicions on the one hand having become of the to be-leprous, not indeed still also having been leprous. Therefore, he says, if there should become a scar of a signaling, and a touch of leprosy, and more-hollow the look of the skin, and indeed also of hair unto whiteness a change, dying-together somehow with the underlying flesh, leprosy then altogether it will be. For unto depth creeps the dying. And if then there should become some whiteness of a signaling, without hollowness the in skin, and of hair unto whiteness a change, let it be tested, he says, beside the priest, and let him be separated a second time; for the unlikely nothing, as also itself of the days the extension, the weakness torturing, would show sometimes for those searching the accurate. For the hair on the one hand endures the other-colored, of the skin being hollowed, and has withdrawn toward leprosy the whiteness. And of none of these having become, ‘Let him be released,’ he says, ‘of the cause.’ For not indeed leprosy the passion, but the resembling leprosy, and near very much, that is, the whiteness. So then the in ready word, and the clarification of the matter has a sufficient setting-beside. But come let us say the spiritual, and of the unto mind and having-been-hidden thoughts let us touch.

Palladius: How beautiful the matter and benefit-bearing.

Cyril: So then we must the ones being made-alive in Christ, and a making-alive I say the spiritual, of dead works to depart, and as farthest to go, and they would be, I think, these, the through which would become for a soul to be deadened-down, and for a mind to cool-off, unbridled having bent-out toward the of flesh and of world. For if it is true, as the one sowing unto the flesh, from the flesh will harvest corruption; and the ones according to flesh living (Galatians 6:8) (Romans 8:8)