Faith into Christ as into God; deep mystery of the Word made as we are
One may see the same thing in the sense of what has been set out, through which it is possible to learn that Christ is true God, and that the faith of all toward him is not as toward one of us simply, but as toward one Lord and Son and God. For first he himself is the gospel of our salvation, in which also is the faith, clearly as toward God; and there follows also the prize of the faith, that is the Spirit of the promise, the pledge of our inheritance (Ephesians 1:13–14); for we have been redeemed unto praise of the glory of Christ. For he has saved us not as a common human, but as God become in flesh for us; for thus we shall be unto the praise of his glory.
“For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you the nations—if indeed you have heard the stewardship of the grace of God that was given me for you, that according to revelation the mystery was made known to me… toward which, reading, you are able to perceive my insight in the mystery of Christ.” (Ephesians 3:1–4) What need is there of insight and of revelation from God for the mystery of Christ to be made known, if he is a human privately and wholly separated from God the Word, honored with a bare union of persons? For what hidden thing does it have, or what difficulty at all is there in perceiving, say, concerning one of us humans, that he is a human? But the mystery is deep and great if the Word who is God is said to have become as we are. When therefore those who have obtained deep insight and the divine revelation have handed down to us the mystery of Christ as a divine mystery, and the faith toward him is clearly as toward God, how would he not be God?
Greek
Ταὐτὸν ἐν ταῖς τῶν προκειμένων ἐννοίαις κατίδοι τις ἄν, δι’ ὧν ἔνεστι μαθεῖν ὅτι Θεὸς ἀληθὴς ὁ Χριστός, καὶ ἡ παρὰ πάντων πίστις εἰς αὐτόν, οὐχ ὡς εἰς ἕνα τῶν καθ’ ἡμᾶς ἁπλῶς, ἀλλ’ ὡς εἰς ἕνα Κύριον καὶ Υἱὸν καὶ Θεόν. πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ αὐτός ἐστι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τῆς σωτηρίας ἡμῶν, ἐν ᾧ καὶ ἡ πίστις, ὡς εἰς Θεὸν δηλονότι· ἀκολουθεῖ δὲ καὶ τὸ τῆς πίστεως γέρας, τουτέστι τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, τῆς κληρονομίας ἡμῶν ἀρραβών· ἐκλελυτρώμεθα γὰρ εἰς ἔπαινον δόξης Χριστοῦ. σέσωκε γὰρ ἡμᾶς, οὐχ ὡς ἄνθρωπος κοινός, ἀλλ’ ὡς Θεὸς ἐν σαρκὶ γεγονὼς δι’ ἡμᾶς· οὕτω γὰρ εἰς τὸ ἔπαινον ἐσόμεθα τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ.
«Τούτου χάριν ἐγὼ Παῦλος ὁ δέσμιος τοῦ Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν τῶν ἐθνῶν, εἴ γε ἠκούσατε τὴν οἰκονομίαν τῆς χάριτος τοῦ Θεοῦ τῆς δοθείσης μοι εἰς ὑμᾶς, ὅτι κατὰ ἀποκάλυψιν ἐγνωρίσθη μοι τὸ μυστήριον… πρὸς ὃ δύνασθε ἀναγινώσκοντες νοῆσαι τὴν σύνεσίν μου ἐν τῷ μυστηρίῳ τοῦ Χριστοῦ.» ποία συνέσεως χρεία καὶ ἀποκαλύψεως τῆς παρὰ Θεοῦ πρὸς τὸ γνωρισθῆναι τὸ μυστήριον τοῦ Χριστοῦ, εἴπερ ἐστὶν ἄνθρωπος ἰδικῶς καὶ ὁλοτρόπως κεχωρισμένος τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγου, ψιλῇ προσώπων ἑνώσει τετιμημένος; τί γὰρ ἔχει τὸ κεκρυμμένον ἢ ποῖον ὅλως τὸ δυσχερές, τὸ νοῆσαι τυχὸν περὶ ἑνὸς τοῦ καθ’ ἡμᾶς ἀνθρώπου, ὅτι ἄνθρωπός ἐστι; βαθὺ δὲ καὶ μέγα τὸ μυστήριον, εἰ καθ’ ἡμᾶς γενέσθαι λέγοιτο Θεὸς ὑπάρχων ὁ Λόγος. ὅτε τοίνυν οἱ βαθεῖς εἰς σύνεσιν καὶ τὴν θείαν ἀποκάλυψιν ἐσχηκότες ὡς θεῖον ἡμῖν μυστήριον παραδεδώκασι τὸ Χριστοῦ μυστήριον, καὶ εἰς αὐτὸν ἡ πίστις ὡς εἰς Θεὸν δηλονότι, πῶς οὐκ ἂν εἴη Θεός;
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)
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