Believe into his name as God become human; signs show deity
And we believe into his name, not believing that he is a common human and one of us, but that he is God become human. And giving authority to become children of God is not a human thing (John 1:12), but rather God-befitting and beyond creation. When therefore the faith is into him, and he himself gives the grace of adoption, how is Christ not God?
“This beginning of the signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and he manifested his glory, and his disciples believed into him.” (John 2:11) When the sign had therefore happened, and Christ had manifested his glory, into whom have the blessed disciples believed? Into a holy human simply? And yet even before the sign they followed him, marveling at him as holy. But through the sign they have seen him having power and authority beyond a human. Therefore they have believed as into God. And one must know that many of the saints have done many wonders and were marveled at, yet no one believed into them.
“And when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover in the feast, many believed into his name, seeing his signs that he was doing.” (John 2:23) “For God did not send his Son into the world that he might judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him. The one who believes into him is not judged; but the one who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed into the name of the only-begotten Son of God.” (John 3:17–18) If the faith into the Son is the way of salvation, how then do we believe into him? Or how will we escape the sentence from being judged? By accepting him as a human and nothing else besides this? Then how will we not worship a human? Or rather as into God? For this is true. Who then will dare to say that he is not truly God, whose faith has justified those under heaven?
Greek
πιστεύομεν δὲ εἰς τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, οὐκ ἄνθρωπον εἶναι κοινὸν καὶ ἕνα τῶν καθ’ ἡμᾶς πιστεύοντες, ἀλλὰ Θεὸν ἐνηνθρωπηκότα. οὐκ ἀνθρώπινον δὲ τὸ ἐξουσίαν διδόναι τέκνα Θεοῦ γενέσθαι, θεοπρεπὲς δὲ μᾶλλον καὶ ὑπὲρ τὴν κτίσιν. ὅτε τοίνυν εἰς αὐτὸν ἡ πίστις, καὶ αὐτὸς δίδωσι τῆς υἱοθεσίας τὴν χάριν, πῶς οὐ Θεὸς ὁ Χριστός;
«Ταύτην ἐποίησεν ἀρχὴν τῶν σημείων ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐν Κανὰ τῆς Γαλιλαίας, καὶ ἐφανέρωσε τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπίστευσαν εἰς αὐτὸν οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ.» γεγονότος ἄρα τοῦ σημείου, καὶ φανερώσαντος τοῦ Χριστοῦ τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, ὡς εἰς τίνα πεπιστεύκασιν οἱ μακάριοι μαθηταί; ἆρα εἰς ἄνθρωπον ἅγιον ἁπλῶς; καίτοι καὶ πρὸ τοῦ σημείου ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ, τεθαυμακότες ὡς ἅγιον. ἀλλὰ τεθέανται διὰ τοῦ σημείου τὴν ὑπὲρ ἄνθρωπον δύναμίν τε καὶ ἐξουσίαν ἔχοντα. οὐκοῦν πεπιστεύκασιν ὡς εἰς Θεόν. ἰστέον δὲ ὅτι πολλοὶ τῶν ἁγίων πολλὰ πεποιήκασι καὶ παράδοξα καὶ ἐθαυμάσθησαν μέν, ἐπίστευσε δὲ εἰς αὐτοὺς οὐδείς.
«Ὡς δὲ ἦν ἐν τοῖς Ἱεροσολύμοις ἐν τῷ πάσχα ἐν τῇ ἑορτῇ, πολλοὶ ἐπίστευσαν εἰς τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ θεωροῦντες αὐτοῦ τὰ σημεῖα ἃ ἐποίει.» «Οὐ γὰρ ἀπέστειλεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν κόσμον ἵνα κρίνῃ τὸν κόσμον, ἀλλ’ ἵνα σωθῇ ὁ κόσμος δι’ αὐτοῦ. ὁ πιστεύων εἰς αὐτὸν οὐ κρίνεται· ὁ δὲ μὴ πιστεύων ἤδη κέκριται, ὅτι μὴ πεπίστευκεν εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ μονογενοῦς υἱοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ.» εἰ σωτηρίας ὁδός ἐστιν ἡ πίστις ἡ εἰς τὸν Υἱόν, πῶς ἄρα πιστεύομεν εἰς αὐτόν; ἢ πῶς τὴν ἐκ τοῦ κρίνεσθαι διαφευξόμεθα δίκην; ἆρα γὰρ ὡς ἄνθρωπον καταδεξάμενοι καὶ ἕτερον παρὰ τοῦτο οὐδέν; εἶτα πῶς οὐκ ἀνθρώπῳ λατρεύσομεν; ἀλλ’ ὡς εἰς Θεόν; τοῦτο γὰρ ἀληθές. τίς οὖν ὁ φάναι τολμῶν οὐκ εἶναι κατὰ ἀλήθειαν Θεόν, οὗ δεδικαίωκεν ἡ πίστις τὴν ὑπ’ οὐρανόν;
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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