Num 6 shave hairs into fire; then drink wine; unload Mosaic bulk
Cyril: …‘priest his sacrifice, and his drink-offering, and will shave the one having vowed beside the doors of the tent of the witness the head of his vow, and will put the hairs upon the fire, which is under the sacrifice of the salvation. And the priest will take the arm boiled from the ram, and a bread one unleavened from the basket, and a thin-cake unleavened one, and will put upon the hands of the one having vowed after the to have shaved him his head, and the priest will bring-forward them a placing-upon opposite Lord. Holy it will be for the priest upon the breast of the placing-upon, and upon the arm of the taking-away, and after these, will drink the one having vowed wine. This the law of the one having vowed, who if he should vow his gift for Lord about the vow, apart from what things ever should find his hand according to power of his vow, which if he should vow according to a law of purity.’ (Numbers 6:18-21) For having unloaded as it were of the Mosaic history the thickness, and of a service the in a type and shadows, as of some hair long and heavy-hanging, having freed the mind, the one having owed for God the unto at least the needing to purify prayer, and hair as it were
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ἱερεὺς τὴν θυσίαν αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὴν σπονδὴν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ξυρήσεται ὁ ηὐγμένος παρὰ τὰς θύρας τῆς σκηνῆς τοῦ μαρτυρίου τὴν κεφαλὴν τῆς εὐχῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπιθήσει τὰς τρίχας ἐπὶ τὸ πῦρ, ὅ ἐστιν ὑπὸ τὴν θυσίαν τοῦ σωτηρίου. Καὶ λήψεται ὁ ἱερεὺς τὸν βραχίονα ἑφθὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ κριοῦ, καὶ ἄρτον ἕνα ἄζυμον ἀπὸ τοῦ κανοῦ, καὶ λάγανον ἄζυμον ἓν, καὶ ἐπιθήσει ἐπὶ τὰς χεῖρας τοῦ ηὐγμένου μετὰ τὸ ξυρήσασθαι αὐτὸν τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ, καὶ προσοίσει αὐτὰ ὁ ἱερεὺς ἐπίθεμα ἔναντι Κυρίου. Ἅγιον ἔσται τῷ ἱερεῖ ἐπὶ τοῦ στηθηνίου τοῦ ἐπιθέματος, καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ βραχίονος τοῦ ἀφαιρέματος, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα, πίεται ὁ ηὐγμένος οἶνον. Οὗτος ὁ νόμος τοῦ εὐξαμένου, ὃς ἂν εὔξηται δῶρον αὐτοῦ Κυρίῳ περὶ τῆς εὐχῆς, χωρὶς ὧν ἂν εὕρῃ ἡ χεὶρ αὐτοῦ κατὰ δύναμιν τῆς εὐχῆς αὐτοῦ, ἣν ἂν εὔξηται κατὰ νόμον ἁγνείας.» Ἀποφορτισάμενος γὰρ ὥσπερ τῆς Μωσαϊκῆς ἱστορίας τὸ πάχος, καὶ λατρείας τῆς ἐν τύπῳ καὶ σκιαῖς, οἱονεί τινος κόμης μακρᾶς καὶ διαβριθοῦς, ἀπαλλάξας τὸν νοῦν, ὁ ἐποφλήσας Θεῷ τὴν εἴς γε τὸ δεῖν ἁγνίσασθαι προσευχὴν, τρίχα δὲ ὥσπερ ἀναβλαστοῦσαν ἔχων τῶν διὰ Χριστοῦ θεσπισμάτων τὴν ἁγνοποιὸν ἀληθῶς εἴδησίν τε καὶ παίδευσιν, ἅγιος ἔσται καὶ ἱερὸς, καὶ πρός γε δὴ τούτῳ καὶ ἀξιόληπτος. Ἀνοίσειε δ' ἂν ἑαυτὸν εἰς ὀσμὴν εὐωδίας τῷ Θεῷ, καὶ θυσίαν ὥσπερ ἀναθήσει δεκτὴν, τῆς ἑαυτοῦ πολιτείας τὴν εὐκλεᾶ καὶ ἀμώμητον ἀστειότητα. «Προσοίσει γὰρ, φησὶ, τὸ δῶρον αὐτοῦ, ἀμνὸν ἐνιαύσιον, εἰς ὁλοκαύτωμα, καὶ ἀμνάδα πάλιν εἰς ἁμαρτίαν, καὶ μὴν καὶ κριὸν εἰς σωτήριον, καὶ κανοῦν ἀζύμων, ἐλαίῳ δεδευμένων, καὶ λάγανα ἄζυμα κεχρισμένα ἐλαίῳ.» Καὶ διὰ μὲν τοῦ ἀμνοῦ νοοῖτ' ἂν εἰκότως τοῦ τὴν θυσίαν προσάγοντος ἡ ἐν Χριστῷ νηπιότης, διὰ δέ γε τοῦ κριοῦ τὸ ἐν φρεσί τε καὶ ὡς ἐν καρποφορίᾳ τέλειον. «Ἀδελφοὶ γὰρ, φησὶ, μὴ παιδία γίνεσθε ταῖς φρεσὶν, ἀλλὰ τῇ κακίᾳ νηπιάζετε, ταῖς δὲ φρεσὶ τέλειοι γίνεσθε.» Διὰ μέσου δὲ ἀμνὰς, ὑπὲρ ἁμαρτίας. Δι' οὗ δὴ πάλιν ἡμῖν καταθρῆσαι ῥᾷον, ὅτι καὶ τῶν ἄγαν ἁγνιζομένων ὁ βίος, καὶ ὡς ἐν ἁπλότητι καὶ ἀκακίᾳ τῇ ἐν Χριστῷ νοουμένῃ, καὶ ἐν ἀρτιότητι νοῦ τετελειωμένων, οὐκ ἀμώμητος παντελῶς, δεῖται δὲ δὴ πάντως καθαρισμοῦ. Κεκτήσεται μὲν γὰρ τὸ ἀκατάσκεπτον παντελῶς οὐδεὶς, τετήρηται δὲ μόνῳ καὶ ὡς ἴδιον ἀνακείσεται τῷ Ἐμμανουὴλ τὸ σὺν ἀληθείᾳ φράσαι, «Ἔρχεται γὰρ ὁ ἄρχων τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου, καὶ ἐν ἐμοὶ εὑρήσει οὐδέν.» Οὐκοῦν ἐν μὲν τῷ ἀμνῷ, καὶ τῇ ἀμνάδι, καὶ τῷ κριῷ, κατίδοι τις ἂν ὅπερ ἔφην· ἐν δέ γε τοῖς ἄρτοις τοῖς οὐκ ἐζυμωμένοις ὁ ἄδολός τε καὶ καθαρὸς σημαίνεται βίος. Ἐπιστέλλει γάρ που καὶ ὁ σοφώτατος Παῦλος τοῖς ἡγιασμένοις· «Ἐκκαθάρατε οὖν τὴν παλαιὰν ζύμην, ἵνα ἦτε νέον φύραμα, καθώς ἐστε ἄζυμοι.» Ἐν δέ γε τῷ λαγάνῳ τὸ ἥδυσμα καὶ οἱονεὶ τὸ γλυκὺ τῆς τῶν ἁγίων ζωῆς. Ἑαυτοὺς οὖν ἄρα προσοίσομεν, ὡς ἐν ἀμνῷ μὲν διὰ τὸ νήπιον ἐν Χριστῷ· ὡς ἐν ἀμνάδι δὲ αὖ, διὰ τὸ τῆς φύσεως ἀσθενὲς καὶ εὐπάροιστον εἰς τὸ πλημμελές· ἀσθενείας γὰρ τύπος τὸ θῆλυ· ὡς ἐν κριῷ δὲ δὴ, τέλειοι, καὶ εἰς
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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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