Phil 3 / Gal 5 vs Law; doves+lamb=Christ; Num 6 completion rite
Cyril: …‘to be, in order that I may gain Christ, and may be found in him not having my righteousness the in law, but the through faith of Jesus Christ?’ (Philippians 3:8-9)
Palladius: I learned.
Cyril: And he was rebuking also for others, as the in law having honored circumcision after the of Christ mystery. ‘For you were abolished from Christ,’ he says, ‘whoever in law are justified, of the grace you fell-out. And we through faith a hope of righteousness await.’ (Galatians 5:4-5) And to have been made-useless also that ancient command he was saying, not unblameably having, and to have been brought-in-against the other, that is the evangelical.
Palladius: Truly.
Cyril: More-idle then therefore the in law training shows-out the riddle, to be shaved ordering the having-vowed Israel, as a defilement having endured the upon a dead, that is, the with the of the lord-slaying having been held-in charges, and hair as it were another to sanctify for God after the eighth, that is, after the resurrection, of the evangelical oracles the accurate and turned-lathe both urbanity and training. And for at least the one nourishing the hair, after the eighth, turtle-doves to bring-forward and doves the law has ordered, a notice as it were also this setting of the one cleansing those having been defiled, that is, of Christ. For he is signaled through both, as most-well-voiced on the one hand in a turtle-dove, and most-meek through the dove; and of such a law both slow-tongued being, and the meek not having. For he puts immediately for those faulting the penalties. And is brought-up also a lamb with the little-birds together, in order that through all Christ may be understood, as through on the one hand the little-birds, from-above and from heaven, and through the lamb, from-below and from earth. For God being according to nature the Word, became flesh. (John 1:14) But he was and is
Palladius: Thus it holds.
Cyril: And if then, he says, should be completed well the of the vow manner, for the hairing after the eighth, let him be perfected then; and how will be the matter, he legislates saying: ‘And this the law of the one having vowed: On which ever day he should fulfill days of his vow, he himself will bring-forward beside the doors of the tent of the witness; and he will bring-forward his gift for Lord a lamb yearly unblemished one unto a whole-burnt-offering, and a ewe-lamb yearly one unblemished unto sin, and a ram one unblemished unto a salvation, and a basket of unleavened of fine-flour, breads having been worked-up in oil, and thin-cakes unleavened having been anointed in oil, and a sacrifice of them, and a drink-offering of them, and the priest will bring-forward opposite Lord, and will make the about his sin, and his whole-burnt-offering, and the ram he will make a sacrifice of salvation for the Lord upon the basket of the unleavened. And will make the’ (Numbers 6:13-17)
Greek
βαλα εἶναι, ἵνα Χριστὸν κερδήσω, καὶ εὑρεθῶ ἐν αὐτῷ μὴ ἔχων ἐμὴν δικαιοσύνην τὴν ἐν νόμῳ, ἀλλὰ τὴν διὰ πίστεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ;»
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Ἐπυθόμην.
{ΚΥΡ.} Ἐπετίμα δὲ καὶ ἑτέροις, ὡς τὴν ἐν νόμῳ τετιμηκόσι περιτομὴν μετὰ τὸ Χριστοῦ μυστήριον. «Κατηργήθητε γὰρ ἀπὸ Χριστοῦ, φησὶν, οἵτινες ἐν νόμῳ δικαιοῦσθε, τῆς χάριτος ἐξεπέσετε. Ἡμεῖς δὲ διὰ πίστεως ἐλπίδα δικαιοσύνης ἀπεκδεχόμεθα.» Ἠχρειῶσθαι δὲ καὶ τὴν ἀρχαίαν ἐκείνην ἔφασκεν ἐντολὴν, οὐκ ἀμωμήτως ἔχουσαν, ἀντεισῆχθαι δὲ τὴν ἑτέραν, τουτέστι τὴν εὐαγγελικήν.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Ἀληθές.
{ΚΥΡ.} Ἀργοτέραν οὖν ἄρα τὴν ἐν νόμῳ παίδευσιν ἀποφαίνει τὸ αἴνιγμα, ξυρᾶσθαι κελεῦον τὸν εὐξάμενον Ἰσραὴλ, ὡς μολυσμὸν ὑπομείναντα τὸν ἐπὶ νεκρῷ, τουτέστι, τὸν τοῖς τῆς κυριοκτονίας ἐνισχημένον ἐγκλήμασι, κόμην δὲ ὥσπερ ἑτέραν ἁγιάζειν Θεῷ μετὰ τὴν ὀγδόην, τουτέστι, μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν, τῶν εὐαγγελικῶν θεσπισμάτων τὴν ἀκριβῆ καὶ τετορευμένην ἀστειότητά τε καὶ παίδευσιν. Τῷ γε μὴν τρέφοντι τὴν τρίχα, μετὰ τὴν ὀγδόην, τρυγόνας προσάγειν καὶ περιστερὰς ὁ νόμος προστέταχε, μήνυσιν ὥσπερ καὶ τοῦτο τιθεὶς τοῦ καθαίροντος τοὺς μεμολυσμένους, τουτέστι, Χριστοῦ. Σημαίνεται γὰρ δι' ἀμφοῖν, ὡς εὐφωνότατος μὲν ἐν τρυγόνι, πραότατος δὲ διὰ τῆς περιστερᾶς· καὶ τοιούτου νόμου βραδυγλώσσου τε ὄντος, καὶ τὸ πρᾶον οὐκ ἔχοντος. Ἐπιτίθησι γὰρ εὐθὺς τοῖς πλημμελοῦσι τὰς δίκας. Ἀναφέρεται δὲ καὶ ἀμνὸς τοῖς στρουθίοις ὁμοῦ, ἵνα διὰ πάντων νοοῖτο Χριστὸς, ὡς διὰ μὲν τῶν στρουθίων, ἄνωθεν καὶ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ, διὰ δὲ τοῦ ἀμνοῦ, κάτωθεν καὶ ἀπὸ γῆς. Θεὸς γὰρ ὑπάρχων κατὰ φύσιν ὁ Λόγος, γέγονε σάρξ. Ἀλλ' ἦν καὶ ἔστι καὶ οὕτω Θεός· καὶ ἀπαλλάττει μὲν ἡμᾶς τῆς κατὰ νόμον σκιᾶς, ἐνίησι δὲ ταῖς ἁπάντων καρδίαις τῶν ἑαυτοῦ θεσπισμάτων τὴν εἴδησιν· καὶ ἁγίους ἀληθῶς ἀποφαίνει, τῷ ἰδίῳ καθαίρων αἵματι, κατὰ τὰς Γραφάς.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Ὧδε ἔχει.
{ΚΥΡ.} Εἰ δὲ δὴ, φησὶν, ἀποπεραίνοιτο καλῶς ὁ τῆς εὐχῆς τρόπος, τῷ κομῶντι μετὰ τὴν ὀγδόην, τελειούσθω τότε· καὶ ὅπως ἔσται τὸ χρῆμα, νομοθετεῖ λέγων· «Καὶ οὗτος ὁ νόμος τοῦ εὐξαμένου· Ἦ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ πληρώσῃ ἡμέρας εὐχῆς αὐτοῦ, προσοίσει αὐτὸς παρὰ τὰς θύρας τῆς σκηνῆς τοῦ μαρτυρίου· καὶ προσάξει τὸ δῶρον αὐτοῦ Κυρίῳ ἀμνὸν ἐνιαύσιον ἄμωμον ἕνα εἰς ὁλοκαύτωσιν, καὶ ἀμνάδα ἐνιαυσίαν μίαν ἄμωμον εἰς ἁμαρτίαν, καὶ κριὸν ἕνα ἄμωμον εἰς σωτήριον, καὶ κανοῦν ἀζύμων σεμιδάλεως, ἄρτους ἀναπεποιημένους ἐν ἐλαίῳ, καὶ λάγανα ἄζυμα κεχρισμένα ἐν ἐλαίῳ, καὶ θυσίαν αὐτῶν, καὶ σπονδὴν αὐτῶν, καὶ προσοίσει ὁ ἱερεὺς ἔναντι Κυρίου, καὶ ποιήσει τὸ περὶ ἁμαρτίας αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸ ὁλοκαύτωμα αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸν κριὸν ποιήσει θυσίαν σωτηρίου τῷ Κυρίῳ ἐπὶ τοῦ κανοῦ τῶν ἀζύμων. Καὶ ποιήσει ὁ
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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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