On the True Faith, to the Princesses Arcadia and Marina · §94

Unsearchable riches; word of faith; Christ proclaimed as God

Another passage like this and having the same sense. “To me, the least of all the saints, this grace was given: to proclaim among the nations the unsearchable wealth of Christ, and to enlighten what is the stewardship of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things.”

“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.” What then is the word in which we have been cleansed, having washed “the body with pure water,” if not altogether that about which the inspired Paul says: “This is the word of faith which we proclaim, 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; for with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.” Therefore if by confessing Christ in faith we are saved, how is he not true God—into whom, when the word of faith has come about, we have been both cleansed and sanctified?

From Philippians. “What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed.” Is he then preached to the world as a human honored by grace? And yet the world has recognized Christ as God, having honored him with the faith. How then is he not God—the one proclaimed to the world in the glory of deity?

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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.