Gift of the booklet; creed begins
every land and city — like an image that carries the beauty of piety toward Christ in its drawing — it has shone out clearly and been judged worthy of every wonder.
I thought I ought also to hand a spiritual gift to women already sound toward every good, as to holy brides of Christ: this little book I have freshly worked. It can give no small help, I think, to those who will read it.
Those taught — or rather talked into — wrong thoughts about Christ our common Savior it will lead back and initiate well. Those who already walk with a right mind and dwell in the doctrines of the truth it will make safer still, by many findings from good thoughts and by proofs from the God-breathed Scripture.
For the reader will learn that Emmanuel is God by nature and in truth, and that because of him the virgin who bore him is God-bearer.
Those who fear both to say this and to think it have not grasped, as one would expect, how deep the mystery of piety is.
I take it I must say in brief the apostolic and gospel tradition made concerning Christ the master of all, the aim of all God-breathed Scripture upon him, and wherever the force of the doctrines of the truth looks.
We believe, then, in one God, the Father almighty, maker of all things visible and invisible; and in one Lord, Jesus the Christ, his Son, begotten by nature from him before every age and time. For he is without beginning in time with his own Begetter, and co-eternal with him, seated with him and equal in glory, crowned with equality in every respect — for he is the imprint and radiance of his (Hebrews 1:3)
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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.