Manna double on sixth day; future rest; Word coeternal with Father

which God sends into the saints’ souls, making the God Word who feeds angels and makes humans live take lodging with those having received the faith. For Christ has dwelt in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, and we are fed with living bread and from heaven unto spiritual good-condition and strength; a type then of such a thing is the manna, clear and having itself without doubt. And the law has commanded the sons of Israel to gather it, the thing holding sufficiently for each, not overrunning. For it has been written thus: ‘In the morning it became when the dew was resting around the camp, and look—upon face of the desert thin as coriander, white as frost upon the earth. And seeing it the sons of Israel said one to the other: What is this? for they did not know what it was. And Moses said toward them: This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. This is the word which the Lord arranged: Gather from it each unto the fitting gomors according to heads, according to number of your souls; each with those tenting with you collect.’ Then he says also again after other things: ‘And it became on the sixth day, they collected the needed things double—gomors for the one; and all the rulers of the synagogue entered, and announced to Moses. And Moses said toward them: This is the word which the Lord spoke: Holy Sabbaths, a rest for the Lord; tomorrow as many things as you bake, bake, as many as you boil, boil, and leave every excess for yourselves a store unto the morning.’ Then besides these the hierophant Moses was clarifying the divine law for them, saying at once: ‘Eat today; for there are Sabbaths today for the Lord. You will not find today in the plain. Six days you will collect, yet on the seventh day Sabbaths; it will not be in it.’ Is it still unclear for you hereafter, O Palladius, even after this, that the needing to do nothing on Sabbath, and to collect as into a store the thing already having been provided, and not even that the manna has been given down from heaven, yet to use through thoroughly the thing already having been brought together unto enjoyment and food, would also have very clearly a pre-preparation and under-type of the life about to be unto the coming age? For sabbatizing in Christ and going unto a complete cessation of the sin, we will luxuriate in the good things from above, every toil having been removed, and without sweats finding richly everything which benefits.

Palladius: The word is true. For then the life of the saints will be as upon ready and all good things about to lie forward; and let it also be said from us ourselves toward every saint: ‘You will eat the toils of your fruits.’

Cyril: Therefore running back unto the from-beginning, and as it were reining the word upward again, we say that—that the law having transferred very much and consistently upon the one God by nature and truly, has also not allowed to be ignorant of the coeternal Word having been born from him and in him and coexisting.