Letter to Xystus Bishop of Rome
From the letter of Cyril to Justus (read Xystus), bishop of Rome.
For I have never been shown to have held any belief at odds with what the truth approves, nor have I ever called the divine nature of the Word capable of suffering.
And a little further on: I know too that the nature of God is incapable of suffering, unchangeable, and unalterable, even in the human nature, and that Christ is one, in both natures and from both natures.
Greek
Ad Xystum episcopum Romae EPISTOLA LIII. CYRILLI AD SANCTUM XYSTUM PAPAM. Κυρίλλου ἐκ τῆς πρὸςἸούστον [ξορρ. Ξύστον] ἐπίσκοπονῬώμης ἐπιστολῆς. Ἐγὼ γὰρ οὔτε ἐλέγχομαι πεφρονηκὼς ἕτερόν τι πώποτε παρὰ τὸ δοκοῦν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ, οὔτε παθητὴν εἴρηκά ποτε τὴν θείαν τοῦ Λόγου φύσιν. Καὶ μετὰ βραχύ· Οἶδα δὲ καὶ ἀπαθῆ τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ φύσιν καὶ 77.288 ἄτρεπτον καὶ ἀναλλοίωτον, κὰν τῇ τῆς ἀνθρωπότητος φύσει, καὶ ἕνα ἐν ἀμφοῖν καὶ ἐξ ἀμφοῖν τὸν Χριστόν.
About this text
Cyril defends his belief in Christ's divine nature and unchangeable Godhood in a letter to a Roman bishop.
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 77 (Greek)
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