Corban vs parent care; Jesus entrusts Mary to John

according to the law, confessing the prices on behalf of themselves to those having obtained to be priests, and sitting beside the divine altar. Yet there were some, longing for such glory (for already made holy and sacred, and a divine dedication, and what of such things were they not thinking fit to be named?), yet by lack of money cutting short the desire, and having poverty as a hard-to-flee trip-up of the matter; and with the Scribes and Pharisees turning them on also very eagerly unto the needing to go toward this (for such ones are very money-loving, and being worsted by shameful gains), they were holding forward the reverence unto parents, and saying truthfully that they can scarcely provide the life-necessary things for themselves and for those, or even collect clothing. These dared to persuade to count the matter as nothing because of God; and if the ones having begotten should approach seeking the customary help from them, they were teaching that they must say to father and mother: ‘A gift, whatever you would be benefited from me.’ That is, Whatever you take from me, know that you are harming the divine dedication, and laying hands upon sacred monies; for I have dedicated myself and have announced myself as a gift to God. And those fearing the harms from the temple-robbery, and having shuddered very much at the laws upon this, were enduring groaning, and were stretching that the piety unto God had become a pretext of hunger for them, perhaps also crying down the divine commandment as doing them injustice unto the most timely things. Why then does he say, ‘You have voided God’s commandment through your tradition’? for it was necessary, necessary to honor the ones having begotten, not to dissolve the law upon them for the sake of the piety unto God. Therefore one must neither neglect the things fitting for God because of the human things, nor indeed be altogether careless of the human things because of God; yet rather distributing the exceptional of the love to the beginning of all things—that is to God—and as in a second and neighboring taxis, carrying at once also unto the under-workers of the genesis the honors most especially fitting for them, thinking also this which I said.

Palladius: What then do you say?

Cyril: For our Lord Jesus Christ, showing the reverence unto the ones having begotten a matter most especially of the necessary things for us, was counting his own mother worthy of sparing and of a word. For already having been hung from the precious cross, and having been nailed to the wood, he was giving the holy Virgin to the genuine disciple, and setting the beloved as her old-age-tender, he was saying: ‘Woman, look—your son’; and to the disciple he said: ‘Look—your mother’; and from that hour, it says, the disciple took her unto his own.

Palladius: How best the word about this seems to have been worked out for us.

Cyril: Having yoked then very well the things from them to the ones having begotten, and the from law and necessity