On the True Faith, to the Princesses Arcadia and Marina · §99

Believing the Son is believing the Sender; faith the Son of Man will seek

“And Jesus cried out and said: The one who believes into me does not believe into me, but into the one who sent me, and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.” Then he adds to these: “I have not spoken from myself, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a command what I should say and what I should speak.” When therefore, even if he speaks as a human, he refers the faith toward him to the one who sent him according to the Father’s commands, and the one who sees him sees the one who sent him, who will dare to say that he is not God—and this one true?

From the Gospel according to Luke. “Yet when the Son of Man comes, will he find the faith on the earth?” When Christ arrives from heaven, what faith will he then seek in us? For if he wants to be believed as a human as we are, who has disbelieved him? For the Jews were accusing him, saying why “you, being a human, make yourself God”; and Greeks, hearing cross and death, are disposed as about a common human and one of us. What faith then does he seek? Or clearly the faith proclaimed through the God-speakers, who have also become eyewitnesses and servants of the Word? John therefore said that “the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us.”

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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.

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  • 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.