Seeking the Physician of Knowledge
Let us follow the soul to the physician of knowledge; if we hunger, let us receive bread; if we have died, let us receive the resurrection. If we have fallen into ignorance, let us ask wisdom from the Wisdom.
But the word has drawn us out into the length of a word. And perhaps we have become an obstacle to the patristic teaching.
Yet the time calls to listen to greater words, so that, having been benefited by greater works, we may send up to God the doxology through the works, to whom is the glory now and always and unto the ages of ages (Ps 103:26). Amen.
Greek
τὴν ψυχήν, τῷ ἰατρῷ τῆς γνώσεως ἐξακολουθήσωμεν· εἴτε πεινῶμεν, τὸν ἄρτον δεξώμεθα· εἴτε ἐνεκρώθημεν, τὴν ἀνάστασιν λάβωμεν. εἴτε ἐν ἀγνοίᾳ κατεγηράσαμεν, τὴν σοφίαν παρὰ τῆς σοφίας αἰτησώμεθα. Ἀλλ' ἐξείλκυσεν ἡμᾶς λόγος εἰς μῆκος λόγου. καὶ ἴσως γεγόναμεν ἐμπόδιον πατρικῆς διδασκαλίας. καιρὸς δὲ καλεῖ καὶ μειζόνων ἐπακοῦσαι ῥημάτων, ἵνα ὠφεληθέντες ἐκ μειζόνων ἔργων θεῷ διὰ τῶν ἔργων τὴν δοξολογίαν ἀναπέμψωμεν, ᾧ ἡ δόξα καὶ νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. ἀμήν.
About this text
Cyril of Jerusalem on the healing at Bethesda.
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
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- Copy-text PG (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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