Bezalel = Christ from Judah; Eliab = apostles; Amen
Cyril: …tribe of Judah, and I filled him with divine Spirit of wisdom and understanding and knowledge. And in every work to understand the gold, and the silver, and the bronze, and the hyacinth, and the purple, and the spun scarlet, and the twisted linen, and the stone-works, and unto the carpenter works of the woods to work according to all the works. And I have also given him, and Eliab of Ahisamach, from tribe of Dan, and to every understanding heart I have given understanding, and they will make all things whatever I have arranged.’ Look then already how Bezalel leads the craft-works, and Eliab works.
Palladius: What then is this at least?
Cyril: You will learn then already; Judah and Dan, both from Jacob, but the one from the free woman Leah, and the other from the maidservant Bilhah. So then a type also clear is Bezalel of Christ who has appeared for us from tribe of Judah according to flesh, and from a nature truly free—clearly the divine and uppermost. And Eliab would hint very well those who have worked with Christ as from the slave woman Jerusalem—apostles and evangelists; for they have become fellow-workers of God all but laboring and crafting the things unto constitution of the holy Churches. And all the understanding in heart were bringing together the things from their own eagerness and fairness unto the works of the tent, fulfilling images of the teachers according to times, for whom in eagerness and care is working the things of God, and whatever would finish unto benefit of the Church of Christ; to him the glory unto the ages of the ages, Amen (Exodus 31:1–6) (Hebrews 7:14) (Galatians 4:22–26) (1 Corinthians 3:9).
Greek
λῆς Ἰούδα, καὶ ἐνέπλησα αὐτὸν Πνεῦμα θεῖον σοφίας καὶ συνέσεως καὶ ἐπιστήμης. Καὶ ἐν παντὶ ἔργῳ διανοεῖσθαι τὸ χρυσίον, καὶ τὸ ἀργύριον, καὶ τὸν χαλκὸν, καὶ τὴν ὑάκινθον, καὶ τὴν πορφύραν, καὶ τὸ κόκκινον τὸ νηστὸν, καὶ τὴν βύσσον τὴν κεκλωσμένην, καὶ τὰ λιθουργικὰ, καὶ εἰς τὰ ἔργα τὰ τεκτονικὰ τῶν ξύλων ἐργάζεσθαι κατὰ πάντα τὰ ἔργα. Καὶ ἐγὼ δέδωκα αὐτὸν, καὶ τὸν Ἐλιὰβ τοῦ Ἀχισαμὰ, ἐκ φυλῆς Δὰν, καὶ παντὶ συνετῷ καρδίᾳ δέδωκα σύνεσιν, καὶ ποιήσουσιν πάντα ὅσα συνέταξα.» Ἄθρει δὴ οὖν ὅπως καθηγεῖται μὲν τῶν τεχνουργημάτων ὁ Βεσελεὴλ, Ἐλιὰβ δὲ ἐργάζεται.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Τί οὖν τοῦτό γε;
{ΚΥΡ.} Πεύσῃ δὴ οὖν· Ἰούδας τε καὶ Δὰν, ἄμφω μὲν ἐξ Ἰακὼβ, ἀλλ' ὁ μὲν ἐξ ἐλευθέρας τῆς Λείας, ὁ δὲ ἐκ θεραπαίνης τῆς Βάλης. Τύπος οὖν ἄρα καὶ ἐναργὴς ὁ Βεσελεὴλ τοῦ πεφηνότος ἡμῖν ἐκ φυλῆς Ἰούδα τὸ κατὰ σάρκα Χριστοῦ, καὶ ἐκ φύσεως ἀληθῶς τῆς ἐλευθέρας, δῆλον δὲ ὅτι τῆς θείας καὶ ὑπερτάτης. Ἐμφήνειε δ' ἂν εὖ μάλα καὶ Ἐλιὰβ τοὺς, ὡς ἐκ δούλης τῆς Ἰερουσαλὴμ, Χριστῷ συνεργασαμένους ἀποστόλους καὶ εὐαγγελιστάς· Θεοῦ γὰρ γεγόνασι συνεργοὶ τὰ εἰς σύστασιν τῶν ἁγίων Ἐκκλησιῶν μονονουχὶ πονοῦντι καὶ τεχνωμένῳ Συνεκόμιζον δὲ τὰ ἐξ οἰκείας σπουδῆς καὶ ἐπιεικείας εἰς τὰ τῆς σκηνῆς ἔργα πάντες οἱ συνετοὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ, τῶν κατὰ καιροὺς διδασκάλων ἀποπληροῦντες εἰκόνας, οἷς ἐν σπουδῇ καὶ φροντίδι τὸ ἐργάζεσθαι τὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ὅσαπερ ἂν τελοίη πρὸς ὄνησιν τῆς Ἐκκλησίας Χριστοῦ.
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Cyril continues the dialogue with Palladius. Book 9 of a seventeen-book dialogue — not the whole work.
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