Destroy idols after Jordan; bless bread/wine/water as mysteries

they were sanctified, and have become sharers of the divine nature. For just as a soldier who has thrown away the shield and fled the war must not be honored with second sealings, but already be punished, and pay accounts of unmanliness; in the same manner, I think, those so insulting a reverend and admirable grace must not be honored with a second gift of the Spirit, the first having been set aside, but already it is fitting they lie under penalties. For that those once enlightened must come unto this judgment and steadiness of reasonings—to know one God by nature, and to abominate those introducing something other beside this, and to make finest of desires the leaping upon idols, and shaking down temples, and counting the Greeks’ worships nothing—an ancient word will also teach us. For it has been written in Numbers: ‘And the Lord spoke toward Moses on the west of Moab beside the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying: Speak to the sons of Israel, and you will say toward them: You are crossing the Jordan into Canaan’s land, and you will destroy all who dwell in the land before your face. And you will lift out their lookouts, and all their cast idols you will destroy them, and all their steles you will lift out.’ You understand that those who have passed the Jordan must make altars and precincts from the midst, and pry up without care the idols themselves and steles? as for allotting sparing perhaps to such evils, it would become a clear indication of not having been fixed well, nor dedicating the heart unaccused to God, although he says clearly concerning the godless and evil: ‘You will not worship their gods, nor will you serve according to their works, but with a taking-down you will take down, and crushing you will crush their steles, and you will serve the Lord your God, and I will bless your bread, and your wine, and your water; and I will turn weakness away from you; there will not be barren, nor sterile upon your land; I will fill up the number of your days.’ For it is not unclear that for those very well fixed and from a healthy mind clinging to the God of all, and having practiced to make a clear demonstration of the matter—the shaking down of altars and steles, and playthings of humans corrupted in mind—it will be a procurer of divine gifts.

Palladius: True.

Cyril: For if indeed you should take down the hand-made things, he says, and should serve God, having hated the customs beside those ones, ‘I will bless your bread, and your wine, and your water.’ The word is mystical and deep; for for those genuine toward God, the partaking of Christ’s mysteries will be unto spiritual blessing, and the grace through the holy baptism. Yet for those still double-souled, moved unto apostasy, wrath and condemnation; and what of the terrible things is the sharing of the spiritual blessing not? and this,