Justifier is true God; Word’s own body at the right hand
“Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus who died — rather also was raised — who is at God’s right hand, who also intercedes for us.” If Christ justifies by faith, and the one who justifies is God, then Christ is true God. And if he is at God’s right hand, although he has died and been raised, and sits with the Father, then the body is the Word’s own. For thus he sits with the Father with the assumed flesh, as Son by nature even if the Word has become flesh.
“But the righteousness from faith says thus: Do not say in your heart, Who will go up into heaven? — that is, to bring Christ down — or Who will go down into the abyss? — that is, to bring Christ up from the dead. But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart — that is, the word of faith that we preach — that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved…” If according to what some think Christ is understood as a God-bearing human and has only the union in persons toward the Word from God, why, believing in him as Lord and also confessing his resurrection from the dead, are we justified by the faith toward him? And the faith is clearly done as toward God. Therefore the God-Word’s union according to hypostasis toward the human things is necessary.
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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.