Radiance sits by own blood; sanctifier and sanctified one Son
“Who being the radiance of the glory and the impress of his hypostasis, and bearing all things by the word of his power, having made cleansing of sins sat at the right of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels as he has inherited a more different name than they.” The radiance of the glory, the impress of the hypostasis of God and Father—that is, the Only-begotten Son from him by nature—in what manner, having made cleansing of our sins (clearly through his own blood), has sat at the Father’s right and is said to have become better than the angels, though by nature and by deity’s superiority he conquers all things? Therefore even having become human he has excelled as God the invisible creation, being the same radiance and impress and having worked the cleansing of our sins by his own blood. So there is one Christ and Son and Lord.
“For both the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one; for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying: I will announce your name to my brothers.” What is holy by nature is not sanctified, because it does not need sanctification; but what has become holy as by participation from another cannot sanctify others. How then the same one sanctifies and is sanctified must be asked. He sanctifies, then, as God, having received as a property of his own nature the power to sanctify, and he is sanctified with us according to the human. So there is one Christ and Son and Lord, sanctifying divinely and being sanctified with us humanly.
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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.