Divine Humility and Authority
The heavenly goods are participated in by humans, for as it is said, they have been given to human nature, and this is because we have been enriched by human poverty.
Whom God raised from the dead, this one, Jesus Christ, has been presented before you healthy and alive.
The Father raises the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, clearly the matter is being worked out regarding his flesh, and no one would doubt this, for he himself, being the life-giving and active power of the Father, vivifies his own temple, according to the words 'Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it.'
The vivified thing, his body, was not foreign, nor one of the humans among us, but the body of the Word itself.
Men, brothers and fathers, listen to me, and prepare for the benevolent, bending your ear to understand subtly the power of divine words, as it is said, 'Go out from your land and from your kin'.
Take away the weakness of the law; for the God of all things shows himself, but when he shows himself, Moses turns away his face.
Christ, casting out evil demons as into an abyss, and not willingly changing the tyranny over us, was said to cast them out through these things; they said: this one does not cast out demons except in Beelzebub, the ruler of demons; I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
Therefore, it is clear that for those who follow God completely and in every way, and who have made hope in him second to fleshly and worldly desires, the blessing from above will richly abound.
And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; he was powerful in his words and deeds, and when he was forty years old, God said, 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob'.
Thus the Christ said; 'I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel', for the promises are theirs, and the fathers are theirs.
For we do not give that the Word from God the Father, that is, a man, has gone out among us; and we say that he has become outside of divine glory, if it is true that, being rich, he became poor and emptied himself; but the one doing injustice to the neighbor pushed him away, saying; who appointed you as ruler and judge over us? do you not want to destroy me as you destroyed the Egyptian yesterday?
The sons of Israel could not endure the divine glory of the Son, showing himself and almost bringing knowledge.
Greek
τῶν οὐρανίων μέθεξιν ἀγαθῶν. Ὡς γὰρ ἑαυτῷ δεδόσθαι φησὶ, τῇ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου φύσει προσνέμει· ἐπεί πως τῇ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου πτωχείᾳ πεπλουτήκαμεν. Ὃν ὁ Θεὸς ἤγειρεν ἐκ νεκρῶν, ἐν τούτῳ οὖτος παρέστηκεν ἐνώπιον ὑμῶν ὑγιῆς. Κυρίλλου. Ὅτι δὲ ὁ Πατὴρ ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀναστῆσαι λέγεται τὸν Κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν, ἐνεργουμένου δηλονότι περὶ τὴν σάρκα αὐτοῦ τοῦ πράγματος, οὐκ ἂν ἐνδοιάσειέ τις· αὐτός τε ὑπάρχων ἡ ζωοποιός τε καὶ ἐνεργὴς δύναμις τοῦ Πατρὸς, τὸν ἴδιον ἐζωοποίει ναὸν, κατὰ τὸ, Λύσατε τὸν ναὸν τοῦτον, καὶ ἐν τρισὶν ἡμέραις ἐγερῶ αὐτόν. Ἦν ἄρα τὸ ζωοποιούμενον οὐκ ἀλλότριον, οὔτε μὴν ἑνὸς τῶν καθ' ἡμᾶς ἀνθρώπων, ἀλλ' ἴδιον αὐτοῦ τοῦ Λόγου σῶμα. Ἄνδρες ἀδελφοὶ καὶ πατέρες, ἀκούσατέ μου. Κυρίλλου Ἀλεξανδρείας. Ἑτοιμάζεσθαι κελεύει πρὸς τὸ εὐήνιον, καὶ μονονουχὶ κατακλίνοντας τὸ ὠτίον συνιέναι λεπτῶς τῶν θείων λόγων τὴν δύναμιν. Ἔξελθε ἐκ τῆς γῆς σου, καὶ ἐκ τῆς συγγενείας σου, κ. τ. λ. Κυρίλλου. Ἄθρει δὴ οὖν ὅτι τοῖς ὁλοσχερῶς τε καὶ ὁλοτρόπως ἀκολουθοῦσι Θεῷ, καὶ τῆς εἰς αὐτὸν ἐλπίδος πεποιημένοις δεύτερα τὰ σαρκὸς καὶ φιληδονίαν κοσμικὴν, ἕψεται πάντως τοῖς τοιούτοις τὸ εὐλογίας τῆς ἄνωθεν πλουσίως μεταλαχεῖν. Καὶ ἐπαιδεύθη Μωϋσῆς πάσῃ σοφίᾳ Αἰγυπτίων· ἦν δὲ δυνατὸς ἐν λόγοις καὶ ἔργοις αὐτοῦ. Ὡς δὲ ἐπληροῦτο αὐτῷ τεσσαρακονταετὴς χρόνος. Τοῦ ἁγίου Κυρίλλου. Τοιγάρτοι καὶ ἔφασκεν ὁ 74.764 Χριστός· Οὐκ ἀπεστάλην εἰ μὴ εἰς τὰ πρόβατα τὰ ἀπολωλότα οἴκου Ἰσραήλ. Αὐτῶν γὰρ αἱ ἐπαγγελίαι· αὐτῶν οἱ πατέρες. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Ἦ γὰρ οὐχὶ τὸν ἐκ Θεοῦ Πατρὸς Λόγον ἐν τοῖς καθ' ἡμᾶς γεγονότα, τουτέστιν ἄνθρωπον μονονουχὶ ἐκβεβηκέναι δώσωμεν· ἔξω τε γενέσθαι τῆς θεοπρεποῦς εὐκλείας ἐροῦμεν, εἴπερ ἐστὶν ἀληθὲς, ὅτι πλούσιος ὢν ἐπτώχευσε, καὶ καθῆκεν ἑαυτὸν εἰς κένωσιν. Ὁ δὲ ἀδικῶν τὸν πλησίον, ἀπώσατο αὐτὸν εἰπών· Τίς σε κατέστησεν ἄρχοντα καὶ δικαστὴν ἐφ' ἡμῶν; Μὴ ἀνελεῖν με σὺ θέλεις, ὃν τρόπον ἀνεῖλες χθὲς τὸν Αἰγύπτιον; Κυρίλλου. Ἀλεξανδρείας. Ἐνεκαλεῖτο 2 μὲν ὁ θεσπέσιος Μωϋσῆς ὡς ἀνελὼν τὸν Αἰγύπτιον, καίτοι θλίβοντα καὶ ἐγκείμενον. Καταχωννύων δὲ ὥσπερ εἰς ἄβυσσον ὁ Χριστὸς τὰ πονηρὰ δαιμόνια, καὶ τῆς καθ' ἡμῶν τυραννίδος καὶ οὐχ ἑκόντα μεθιστὰς, διὰ τούτων ἐχόντων ἐκπέμπειν αὐτὰ, καίτοι δέον ἐπὶ τούτῳ θαυμάζεσθαι, ἔφασκον· Οὗτος οὐκ ἐκβάλλει τὰ δαιμόνια εἰ μὴ ἐν Βεελζεβοὺλ, ἄρχοντα τῶν δαιμόνων. Ἐγὼ ὁ Θεὸς τῶν πατέρων σου, ὁ Θεὸς Ἀβραὰμ καὶ ὁ Θεὸς Ἰσαὰκ καὶ ὁ Θεὸς Ἰακώβ. Κυρίλλου. Ἄθρει τοῦ νόμου τὸ ἀδρανές· ἐμφανίζει μὲν γὰρ ἑαυτὸν ὁ τῶν ὅλων Θεὸς, ἀλλ' ἐμφανῆ καθιστάντος ἀποστρέφει τὸ πρόσωπον ὁ Μωϋσῆς. Σημεῖον δ' ἂν γένοιτο καὶ τοῦτο ἡμῖν ἐναργὲς, τοῦ μὴ δύνασθαι τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραὴλ τὴν θεοπρεπῆ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καταθρῆσαι δόξαν, ἑαυτὸν ἐμφανίζοντος καὶ μονονουχὶ προσάγοντος ἐπίγνωσιν. Εἶπε δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ Κύριος· Λῦσον
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Cyril of Alexandria, Fragmenta in Acta et epistulas catholicas (Greek).
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