On the True Faith, to the Princesses Arcadia and Marina · §44

Bought by Christ’s blood; true God and eternal life; Jude: denying the Master

From Peter’s letter: “There were also false prophets… who will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them.” For we were bought at a price “not with perishable things, silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ.” So we belong to the one who purchased us, even while we serve the living and true God. How, then, is Christ not God — the one we have enrolled as Master, and know as living and true?

“And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true one, and we are in the true one, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.” Jesus Christ is not understood as the Word from God the Father naked, by himself, and outside flesh; but when he became human, then he was also named Christ Jesus. So when he himself is the true God and the eternal life, who among those who think otherwise will put up with it?

From Jude: “While I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in… who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.” How does someone who once believed deny our Lord Jesus Christ? We have received the word of the incarnation. But if we say that the Son who is the Word from God the Father is one, and another is…

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About this text

Cyril’s court treatise on right faith for Arcadia and Marina (CPG 5219). One Son, Word made flesh — not two Christs. English from Pusey’s Greek.

English follows Pusey’s 1877 Greek of De recta fide ad Arcadiam et Marinam. OCR of that print was cleaned section by section before Pass A/B. This is a reading translation for study, not a new critical edition.

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Pusey, De recta fide ad reginas (Oxford, 1877) (Greek · CPG 5219 §§1–100)

English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. It is not a complete critical edition.