Calf/sheep = faithful flock; thieves sell souls to Satan; night vs sunrise

Palladius: The word is not very clear. But you, try to tell me what it is that is somehow oracularly spoken as in a riddle.

Cyril: The law usefully defines a penalty of the one wanting to grasp more, and somehow reins in the unbridled toward desire of whatever the neighbor or brother might happen to have, so that even if it should happen, he says, that the one condemned for this should die in the very act of stealing, no blame is rubbed onto those who have killed him. And he also dishonors him by saying that it is fitting to sell him if he cannot hold out toward payment of ransom, driving him with terrors unto needing to choose to live well. But the hidden mind of the history would be much other than this, and we must also say it as well as possible. Calf then and sheep, both pure and holy, and brought up to God unto a smell of fragrance. But the calf is in superiority and greatness of body; the other not so. For the sheep is less than a calf. Calves then and sheep as somehow pure and most holy animals are the holy multitude of those justified through faith, and splitting the hoof and bringing up rumination according to the law, and workers of cultivated fruits; for the calf works the ground; and the sheep also is fruitful, and the flock of the called has been shut into the divine courts, that is, in churches; and very many are the thieves around it, digging through and slipping in, and by manifold deceits drawing out the souls of the simpler ones, and all but selling them down to the destroying Satan; yet the one who has done something such will repay five calves, he says, instead of one, and four sheep instead of the sheep; for fivefold upon the calf is the judgment for the one who has stolen, and fourfold must come upon one sheep, he says, according somehow, I think, to the measure of the spiritual quantity according to virtue of those who are being destroyed, having set the punishment. And the bodily would be a type and shadow of the quantity in virtue; for the greater or less in fair dealings is easy to see among those who have believed, since not all are by chance in equality; ‘But each of us has his own gift from God, one thus, another thus.’ And if still stealing and digging through, and fulfilling the works of robbery, he should be caught as in night and darkness, he says, then let him also have died; and the matter is not murder, nor a charge against the doer. For the one who fell is grasping and violent, and has been wounded by the law of war; but when the sun has risen, and the time of the robbery has already passed, it restrains the hand of the one striking, and defines a murder-charge of the daring. For as long as the intelligible thief damages the soul of the one who has believed unto Christ, and draws it out from love unto God, if he should be caught in the very wrongs, he would suffer not unjustly also the need to have died; for he killed a soul, the better than body; but when the sun has risen also for him according to mind, and true knowledge is shining as in the order of light and day,