Christ’s food; Passover not raw; keep vows; Num 30 opens
Cyril: …raw not having and having been hated. And you learned-through somewhere the in purities upon the saving food, as it were own naming of the Christ and saying for the holy disciples: ‘I have a food to eat, which you do not know.’ (John 4:32) And remember that also to be sacrificed-down on the one hand he was ordering the lamb, unto a type of Christ, and he was legislating-forward saying: ‘You will not eat from them raw, nor having been boiled in water, but or roasted with fire;’ (Exodus 12:9) the unacceptable, I think somewhere, and the as it were somehow unto a digestion not easy, raw to be saying. So then needing then therefore he says boiled to be taken the arm; of the unboiled signaling the neither pleasant, nor edible, in this way also unacceptable.
Palladius: How thin exceedingly and true the word.
Cyril: So then one must give-back therefore the confessions for God, and what things ever someone should vow, let him complete having delayed nothing, as the at least not to do the such things swiftly, of the that most terrible and most-slippery I would say myself, and itself then the Letter the sacred. For if to be we will reckon thinking rightly of the very most-outlandish, the of false-speaking to be caught with a writing, how would it not become of the very shameful, to confess on the one hand something and to promise for God, and to lie after this the promise? Of every on the one hand having vowed and having delayed, and at least also altogether withdrawing-from the payment, he writes-down the sin. And he releases of the charges those having on the one hand entirely own nothing, and with a bond as it were necessary having been yoked-down, and under another doing a hand. And it has been written thus in the Numbers: ‘And Moses spoke toward the rulers of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying: This the word which Lord arranged: A human who if he should vow a vow for Lord, or should swear an oath, or with a definition should define about his soul, will not profane his word. All as many as should go-out from his mouth he will do. And if she should vow’ (Numbers 30:1-3)
Greek
ὠμὸν οὐκ ἔχοντα καὶ ἀπηχθημένον. Διεπύθου δέ που τὸν ἐν ἁγνείαις ἐπὶ τὴν σωτήριον τροφὴν, ὥσπερ ἰδίαν ὀνομάζοντος τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ λέγοντος τοῖς ἁγίοις μαθηταῖς· «Ἐγὼ βρῶσιν ἔχω φαγεῖν, ἣν ὑμεῖς οὐκ οἴδατε.» Διαμέμνησο δὲ ὅτι καὶ καταθύεσθαι μὲν ἐκέλευε τὸν ἀμνὸν, εἰς τύπον Χριστοῦ, προσενομοθέτει δὲ λέγων· «Οὐ φάγεσθε ἀπ' αὐτῶν ὠμὸν, οὐδὲ ἑψημένον ἐν ὕδατι, ἀλλ' ἢ ὀπτὰ πυρί·» τὸ ἀπαράδεκτον, οἶμαί που, καὶ τὸ οἱονείπως εἰς πέψιν οὐκ εὐχερὲς, ὠμὸν εἶναι λέγων. Χρῆναι δὴ οὖν ἄρα φησὶν ἑφθὸν λαμβάνεσθαι τὸν βραχίονα· τοῦ ἀνέφθου σημαίνοντος τὸ μήτε ἡδὺ, μήτε βρώσιμον, ταύτῃτοι καὶ ἀπαράδεκτον.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Ὡς ἰσχνὸς ἄγαν καὶ ἀληθὴς ὁ λόγος.
{ΚΥΡ.} Ἀποδοτέον οὖν ἄρα τὰς ὁμολογίας Θεῷ, καὶ ἅπερ ἂν εὔξαιτό τις, διαπεραινέτω μελλήσας οὐδὲν, ὡς τό τοι μὴ δρᾷν τὰ τοιάδε γοργῶς, τῶν ὅτι μάλιστα δεινῶν καὶ σφαλερωτάτων φαίην ἂν ἔγωγε, καὶ αὐτὸ δὲ τὸ Γράμμα τὸ ἱερόν. Εἰ γὰρ εἶναι λογιούμεθα φρονοῦντες ὀρθῶς τῶν ἄγαν ἐκτοπωτάτων, τὸ ψευδοεπείας ἁλῶναι γραφῇ, πῶς οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο τῶν λίαν αἰσχρῶν, ὁμολογῆσαι μέν τι καὶ ὑποσχέσθαι Θεῷ, ψεύσασθαι δὲ μετὰ τοῦτο τὴν ὑπόσχεσιν; Παντὸς μὲν οὖν εὐξαμένου καὶ μελλήσαντος, καὶ γοῦν καὶ εἰσάπαν ἀναδυομένου τὴν ἔκτισιν, καταγράφει τὴν ἁμαρτίαν. Ἀνίησι δὲ τῶν αἰτιαμάτων τοὺς ἔχοντας μὲν παντελῶς ἴδιον οὐδὲν, δεσμῷ δὲ ὥσπερ ἀναγκαίῳ κατεζευγμένους, καὶ ὑφ' ἑτέρου πράττοντας χεῖρα. Γέγραπται δὲ οὕτως ἐν τοῖς Ἀριθμοῖς· «Καὶ ἐλάλησε Μωσῆς πρὸς τοὺς ἄρχοντας τῶν φυλῶν τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ, λέγων· Τοῦτο τὸ ῥῆμα ὃ συνέταξε Κύριος· Ἄνθρωπος ὃς ἂν εὔξηται εὐχὴν Κυρίῳ, ἢ ὀμόσῃ ὅρκον, ἢ ὁρισμῷ ὁρίσηται περὶ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ, οὐ βεβηλώσει τὸ ῥῆμα αὐτοῦ. Πάντα ὅσα ἐξέλθῃ ἐκ τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ ποιήσει. Ἐὰν δὲ εὔξηται γυνὴ εὐχὴν Κυρίῳ, ἢ ὁρίσηται ὁρισμὸν ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῆς ἐν τῇ νεότητι αὐτῆς, καὶ ἀκούσῃ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῆς τὰς εὐχὰς αὐτῆς, καὶ τοὺς ὁρισμοὺς αὐτῆς οὓς ὡρίσατο κατὰ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτῆς, καὶ παρασιωπήσῃ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῆς· καὶ στήσονται πᾶσαι αἱ εὐχαὶ αὐτῆς, καὶ πάντες οἱ ὁρισμοὶ αὐτῆς οὓς ὡρίσατο κατὰ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτῆς, μενοῦσιν αὐτῇ. Ἐὰν δὲ ἀνανεύων ἀνανεύσῃ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῆς, ᾗ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ ἀκούσῃ πάσας τὰς εὐχὰς αὐτῆς, καὶ τοὺς ὁρισμοὺς αὐτῆς, οὓς ὡρίσατο κατὰ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτῆς, οὐ στήσονται, καὶ Κύριος καθαριεῖ αὐτὴν, ὅτι ἀνένευσεν ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῆς.» Ἀλλ' εἰ καὶ γένοιτο, φησὶν, γυνὴ συνηρμοσμένη κατὰ νόμους ἀνδρὶ, ὁ αὐτὸς κρατείτω νόμος. Χήρας δὲ καὶ ἐκβεβλημένης ἵστησι τοὺς ὁρισμοὺς, καὶ διαπεραίνεσθαι δεῖν πάντη τε καὶ πάντως τὰς ὑποσχέσεις εὖ μάλα φησὶ, πανταχῆ τὸ ἐλεύθερον καὶ ἔξω ζυγοῦ ταῖς αἰτίαις ὑποτιθεὶς, εἰ μὴ δρᾷν ἕλοιτο τὰ ἐπηγγελμένα· τόγε μὴν οὐχ ὧδε ἔχον, ἄπρακτόν τε καὶ ὑφ' ἑτέροις, ἀνιεὶς εἰκότως. Τοῖς γάρτοι κυρίοις, πατρί τε, φημὶ, καὶ ἀνδρὶ, συνθεμένοις μὲν καὶ οἱονεὶ συννεύσασι
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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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