On the True Faith, to the Empresses Pulcheria and Eudocia · §29

From one as sanctifier-God and as brother by flesh

“…all from one, for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying: I will announce your name to my brothers.” Who the sanctifier is, and who those sanctified would be, and how all are from one — or from whom — is wholly worth seeing. So the Son sanctifies, being holy by nature as God; and we have been sanctified from him through the Spirit. How then are “all from one,” as from maker and craftsman, so that from this we also have a necessary brotherhood toward one another? For from made toward made, insofar as they are made things, there is a kind of natural brotherhood — and yet by nature the Son is unbegotten and is not brother to the creation, in that he is God by nature. How then are all from one — both the sanctifier and those sanctified? So the account of the economy with flesh is necessary for clarifying what lies before us. For when he has become as we are, then he himself is also said to be from one with us, and has been named brother to the creatures, as having human kinship toward us. In this way, and very reasonably, he is not ashamed to name us brothers — not enduring, as it seems to me, to be named brother to those who came to be through him unless he has become as they are — yet without releasing what he was. For then he will also hymn with us without blame — he whom the seraphim hymn and the whole creation worships.

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About this text

Cyril’s court treatise on right faith for Pulcheria and Eudocia (CPG 5220). One Son who suffers in flesh yet remains impassible as God. English from Pusey’s Greek.

English follows Pusey’s 1877 Greek of De recta fide ad Pulcheriam et Eudociam. 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 5220 §§1–48)

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