Cling to God alone; love with whole soul; after courage, foundations
ON ADORATION AND WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH — BOOK SIX. That we must cling to God alone who is God by nature, and love him from whole soul and heart.
Cyril: Concerning the manliness understood in Christ, then, and spiritual good-strength, a sufficient word has been worked out by us, as it seems, Palladius; yet the things upon which these would come to be from our side it is necessary to look around at, as I think, again.
Palladius: You speak well.
Cyril: Come then already, turning the eye of the mind round in a circle, and going unto exact examination (Deuteronomy 6:5) (Mark 12:30)
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ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΕΝ ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΗΣΕΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΤΡΕΙΑΣ ΛΟΓΟΣ ΕΚΤΟΣ. Ὅτι χρὴ Θεῷ τῷ κατὰ φύσιν ἡμᾶς προσκεῖσθαι μόνῳ, καὶ ἀγαπᾷν αὐτὸν ἐξ ὅλης ψυχῆς καὶ καρδίας.
{ΚΥΡ.} Ἀνδρείας μὲν οὖν πέρι τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ νοουμένης, καὶ πνευματικῆς εὐσθενείας ἀποχρῶν, ἡμῖν, ὡς ἔοικεν, ἐκπεποίηται λόγος, ὦ Παλλάδιε· τὰ δὲ ἐφ' οἷς ἂν γένοιτο ταυτὶ πρὸς ἡμῶν, περιαθρεῖν ἀναγκαῖον, καθάπερ ἐγᾦμαι, πάλιν.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Εὖ λέγεις.
{ΚΥΡ.} Φέρε δὴ οὖν, τῆς διανοίας τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν ἐν κύκλῳ περιελίττοντες, καὶ εἰς ἀκριβῆ κατάσκεψιν