Paul ministers Christ’s gospel as God’s; churches of Christ
priests. See, then: the inspired Paul says grace was given him by God to be a minister of Christ Jesus and to serve as priest among the nations the gospel of Christ. Therefore Christ is God, if while proclaiming Christ to the nations he says he is priestly serving God’s gospel to them, so that they may be offered as sanctified in the Spirit.
“So I have boasting in Christ Jesus in things toward God. For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has worked through me for the obedience of the nations, by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum I have fulfilled the gospel of Christ.” (Romans 15:16–19)
He says he boasts in Christ Jesus, and calls that boast toward God. How can anyone doubt that it is not merely human for Christ to work marvels among the holy apostles by the Spirit’s power? Just as each of us does his own works by his own power, so also Christ, using the Spirit as his own power, works the marvels through the holy ones’ hand. Then how is he not God? For the Holy Spirit is not alien to him.
“All the churches of Christ greet you.” (Romans 16:16) Yet elsewhere, writing to Timothy, he says: “so that you may know how one ought to behave in the house of God.” (1 Timothy 3:15) If he knows and attests the churches as Christ’s, then Christ is God.
“The God of peace will crush Satan under your feet quickly.” (Romans 16:20) Peace is said to be God’s — for Christ said somewhere to the holy apostles: “My peace I give to you; my peace I leave (John 14:27)
Greek
ἱερεῖς, ἰδοὺ τοιγαροῦν ὁ θεσπέσιος Παῦλος δεδόσθαι φησὶν ἑαυτῷ χάριν παρὰ τοῦ “ Θεοῦ εἰς τὸ εἶναι λειτουργὸν Χριστοῦ
j7oU' xai ἱερουργεῖν ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι * τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ * Χριστοῦ." Θεὸς οὖν ἄρα Χριστὸς, εἰ Χριστὸν κηρύττων 5τοῖς ἔθνεσι, τοῦ Θεοῦ φησὶν εὐαγγέλιον ἱερουργεῖν αὐτοῖς,
ἵνα ERGO EQUI, ὡς ἡγιασμένοι ἐν Πνευματι. ΦἜχω οὖν καύχησιν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τὰ πρὸς τὸν Ἔοτα.χν.
“Θεόν οὐ γὰρ τολμήσω τι λαλεῖν ὧν ov κατειργάσατο “ Χριστὸς δὲ ἐμοῦ εἰς ὑπακοὴν ἐθνῶν, λόγῳ καὶ ἔργῳ, ἐν 80.
to ^ δυνάμει σημείων kai τεράτων, ἐν δυνάμει πνεύματος Θεοῦ, & € 3 A € 4 Α γΊ , ^9 ^ dore με ἀπὸ ᾿ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ κύκλῳ μέχρι τοῦ ᾿Ιλλυρικοῦ
"^ πεπληρωκέναι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Χριστοῦ." ἐν Χριστῷ
Ἰησοῦ καυχᾶσθαί φησι, τὸ καύχημα λέγων ἔχειν πρὸς Θεόν. σ $05 » ^) * * 6? , , » 5 ^ ὅτι δὲ οὐκ ἀνθρώπινον TO kai “ ἐν δυνάμει Πνεύματος ἐν τοῖς 5 ἁγίοις ἀποστόλοις ἐνεργεῖν δύνασθαι τὸν Χριστὸν τὰ παρά- σι e ^ ud Sofa, πῶς ἔνι ἀμφιβάλλειν ; ὥσπερ yàp ἕκαστος τῶν καθ᾽ o ἡμᾶς ἐν ἰδίᾳ δυνάμει τὰ ἑαυτοῦ ἔργα ποιεῖ, οὕτω καὶ ὁ e , ^ σι Χριστὸς, ὡς ἰδίᾳ δυνάμει τῷ Ἡνεύματι χρώμενος, ἐνεργεῖ τὰ παράδοξα διὰ τῆς τῶν ἁγίων χειρός. εἶτα πῶς οὐ Θεός οέστιν ; οὐ γὰρ ἴδιον τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Αγιον.
x ANE ὑμᾶς αἱ ἐκκλησίαι πᾶσαι τοῦ Χριστοῦ." Τὸ. καίτοι φησὶν ἐν ἑτέροις, Τιμοθέῳ γράφων “Ἵνα εἰδῇς πῶς ττίπι.
( ἐν οἴκῳ Θεοῦ ἀναστρέφεσθαι. ei δὲ Χριστοῦ τὰς — i67 b. ἐκκλησίας οἷδε καὶ μεμαρτύρηκε: Θεὸς ἄρα Χριστός. ; “Ὁ δὲ Θεὺς τῆς εἰρήνης συντρίψει τὸν σατανᾶν ὑπὸ ἃ Rom.
* roug. πόδας ὑμῶν ἐν τάχει." Θεοῦ λεγομένης εἷναι τῆς εἰρήνης. ἔφη γάρ που Χριστὸς τοῖς ἁγίοις ἀποστόλοις
Εἰρήνην τὴν ἐμὴν διδωμι ὑμῖν, εἰρηνην τὴν ἐμὴν ἀφίημι — 8. Josn.
4. ei] εἰς Aub. 6. προσαχθῶσιν Cod. ὡς om. Cod. 7. ἔχων C. Comm. 10. σημείων] - τε Edd. Rasura (quasi ἁγίου) inter πνεύματος εἰ Θεοῦ in Codice. II. καὶ κύκλῳ hoc ordine Codex. I2. Θεοῦ pro
22. τιμόθεος (sic) C. γράφομεν Cod. 21. yàp om. Cod.
About this text
Cyril’s court treatise on right faith for Arcadia and Marina (CPG 5219). One Son, Word made flesh — not two Christs. English from Pusey’s Greek.
English follows Pusey’s 1877 Greek of De recta fide ad Arcadiam et Marinam. 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 5219 §§1–100)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Greek on each section for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.