Oil/wine = Spirit cheer; graded glory; sow/reap; cross boast
Cyril: …it has been written, that ‘Of the to cheer a face in oil.’ (Psalm 104:15) And of a gladness the intelligible, the from-above and through the Spirit a sign, the wine; ‘For wine,’ he says, ‘gladdens a heart of a human.’ (Psalm 104:15)
Palladius: I understand.
Cyril: So then analogously, with what things ever someone should bear-fruit, also the of the life supply-beside from God with cheerfulness and gladness. And we do not somehow say, that in at least the to live, or the to be made-alive from God the greater, or lesser. For nonsense this. And saying life, the in at least the to live brightness we say, according to which the on the one hand someone somehow will over-have of so-and-so; and the again, in lesser on the one hand, or in what things ever others would be. Yet not outside of honor and glory; ‘For a star of a star differs in glory.’ (1 Corinthians 15:41) An image then therefore also here of the as in good-fame life of the holy ones, the of the victims difference, with the of the following quantity, the of the good-fame for us writing-down measure; and that about-to were those from nations, together with those from blood of Israel, for the of the Savior yokes to bring-under the neck, and through the same to go of sacrifices and spiritual well-reputings he showed-beside having added, not for others needing the proselyte to have used laws. For one the of all way, unto familiarity the as toward God and Father; and is this
Palladius: How most-excellent and well-artfully exceedingly for us the word holds.
Cyril: For that we will speak-false least at least, different to be affirming the of the well-reputing manners, and to be distributed-away beside God for the of each measures equal-weighing the repayments, will clarify saying also the most-wise Paul: ‘The one sowing sparingly, sparingly also will harvest; and the one sowing upon blessings, upon blessings also will harvest.’ (2 Corinthians 9:6) And has cried-up-before somewhere also the David: ‘And Lord will repay for me according to my righteousness, and according to the cleanness of my hands he will repay for me.’ (Psalm 18:20) Or for do you not say other to be the of Paul, bring to say, righteousness, beside the of anyone of those not-yet so-great, of what sort ever for us being he would be understood (toward strength then I say the spiritual), as to cry-up to be able clearly: ‘And for me may it not become to boast, except in the cross of the Christ, through which for me a world has been crucified, and I for the world?’ (Galatians 6:14)
Palladius: Very much so.
Cyril: And what? will we not give other to be the cleanness of the hands of John, beside the of another, of the toward a beginning springing-up of a citizenship evangelical,
Palladius: We will give; for how not?
Cyril: Then, tell me, being just the of the wholes judge, with the of the holy ones well-reputings concurrent and altogether resembling from us will he demand the righteousness, or then having assayed of the being-in for us well-strength the measure, nothing of what things ever someone should have and be able to right, will he demand more?
Greek
γραπται γὰρ, ὅτι «Τοῦ ἱλαρύναι πρόσωπον ἐν ἐλαίῳ.» Εὐφρασίας δὲ τῆς νοητῆς, τῆς ἄνωθεν καὶ διὰ τοῦ Πνεύματος σημεῖον, ὁ οἶνος· «Οἶνος γὰρ,» φησὶν, «εὐφραίνει καρδίαν ἀνθρώπου.»
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Συνίημι.
{ΚΥΡ.} Οὐκοῦν ἀναλόγως, οἷς ἄν τις καρποφορήσειε, καὶ ἡ τῆς ζωῆς ἐπιχορηγία παρὰ Θεοῦ σὺν ἱλαρότητι καὶ εὐφρασίᾳ. Καὶ οὐ δήπου φαμεν, ὡς ἔν γε τῷ ζῇν, ἤτοι τῷ ζωοποιεῖσθαι παρὰ Θεοῦ τὸ μεῖζον, ἢ μεῖον. Λῆρος γὰρ τοῦτο. Ζωὴν δὲ λέγοντες, τὴν ἔν γε τῷ ζῇν λαμπρότητά φαμεν, καθ' ἢν ὁ μέν τις τυχὸν ὑπερέξει τοῦ δεῖνος· ὁ δὲ αὖ, ἐν μείοσι μὲν, ἢ ἐν οἷς ἂν εἶεν ἕτεροι. Πλὴν οὐκ ἔξω τιμῆς τε καὶ δόξης· «Ἀστὴρ γὰρ ἀστέρος διαφέρει ἐν δόξῃ.» Εἰκὼν οὖν ἄρα κἀνθάδε τῆς ὡς ἐν εὐκλείᾳ ζωῆς τῶν ἁγίων, ἡ τῶν θυμάτων διαφορὰ, τῇ τῶν ἑπομένων ποσότητι, τὸ τῆς εὐκλείας ἡμῖν καταγράφουσα μέτρον· ὅτι δὲ ἔμελλον οἱ ἐξ ἐθνῶν, ὁμοῦ τοῖς ἐξ αἵματος Ἰσραὴλ, τοῖς τοῦ Σωτῆρος ζυγοῖς ὑπενεγκεῖν τὸν αὐχένα, καὶ διὰ τῶν αὐτῶν ἰέναι θυσιῶν καὶ πνευματικῶν εὐδοκιμήσεων παρέδειξε προσθεὶς, οὐχ ἑτέροις δεῖν τὸν προσήλυτον κεχρῆσθαι νόμοις. Μία γὰρ ἡ πάντων ὁδὸς, εἰς οἰκειότητα τὴν ὡς πρὸς Θεὸν καὶ Πατέρα· καὶ ἔστιν αὕτη Χριστός. Ὡς γὰρ ὁ θεσπέσιος ἔφη Πέτρος, «Οὐκ ἔστιν ὄνομα ἕτερον ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανὸν, τὸ δεδομένον ἐν ἀνθρώποις, ἐν ᾧ δεῖ σωθῆναι ἡμᾶς.»
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Ὡς ἄριστά τε ἡμῖν καὶ εὐτέχνως ἄγαν ὁ λόγος ἔχει.
{ΚΥΡ.} Ὅτι γὰρ ψευδοεπήσομεν ἥκιστά γε, διαφόρους εἶναι διαβεβαιούμενοι τοὺς τῆς εὐδοκιμήσεως τρόπους, ἀπονεμηθήσεσθαι δὲ παρὰ Θεοῦ τοῖς ἑκάστου μέτροις ἰσοστάθμους τὰς ἀμοιβὰς, σαφηνιεῖ λέγων καὶ ὁ σοφώτατος Παῦλος· «Ὁ σπείρων φειδομένως, φειδομένως καὶ θερίσει· καὶ ὁ σπείρων ἐπ' εὐλογίαις, ἐπ' εὐλογίαις καὶ θερίσει.» Προανακεκράγει δέ που καὶ ὁ Δαβίδ· «Καὶ ἀνταποδώσει μοι Κύριος κατὰ τὴν δικαιοσύνην μου, καὶ κατὰ τὴν καθαριότητα τῶν χειρῶν μου ἀνταποδώσει μοι.» Ἦ γὰρ οὐχ ἑτέραν εἶναι φὴς τὴν Παύλου, φέρε εἰπεῖν, δικαιοσύνην, παρὰ τὴν ὁτουοῦν τῶν οὔπω τοσούτων, ὁποῖός περ ἂν ἡμῖν ὑπάρχων νοοῖτο (πρὸς ἀλκὴν δέ φημι τὴν πνευματικὴν), ὡς ἀνακραγεῖν δύνασθαι σαφῶς· «Ἐμοὶ δὲ μὴ γένοιτο καυχᾶσθαι, εἰ μὴ ἐν τῷ σταυρῷ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, δι' οὗ ἐμοὶ κόσμος ἐσταύρωται, κἀγὼ τῷ κόσμῳ;»
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Πάνυ μὲν οὖν.
{ΚΥΡ.} Τί δέ; οὐχ ἑτέραν εἶναι δώσομεν τὴν καθαριότητα τῶν χειρῶν Ἰωάννου, παρὰ τὴν ἑτέρου, τοῦ πρὸς ἀρχὴν ἀναθρώσκοντος πολιτείας εὐαγγελικῆς,
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Δώσομεν· πῶς γὰρ οὔ;
{ΚΥΡ.} Εἶτα, εἰπέ μοι, δίκαιος ὢν ὁ τῶν ὅλων κριτὴς, ταῖς τῶν ἁγίων εὐδοκιμήσεσι σύνδρομόν τε καὶ εἰσάπαν ἐμφερῆ παρ' ἡμῶν ἐξαιτήσει τὴν δικαιοσύνην, ἤγουν δοκιμάσας τῆς ἐνούσης ἡμῖν εὐσθενείας τὸ μέτρον, οὐδὲν ὧν ἄν τις ἔχοι καὶ δύναιτο κατορθοῦν, ἐξαιτήσει πλεῖον;
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Cyril continues the dialogue with Palladius. Book 16 of a seventeen-book dialogue — not the whole work.
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