Believing the Son is believing the Sender; faith the Son of Man will seek
“And Jesus cried out and said: The one who believes into me does not believe into me, but into the one who sent me, and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.” (John 12:44–45) Then he adds to these: “I have not spoken from myself, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a command what I should say and what I should speak.” (John 12:49) When therefore, even if he speaks as a human, he refers the faith toward him to the one who sent him according to the Father’s commands, and the one who sees him sees the one who sent him, who will dare to say that he is not God—and this one true?
From the Gospel according to Luke. “Yet when the Son of Man comes, will he find the faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8) When Christ arrives from heaven, what faith will he then seek in us? For if he wants to be believed as a human as we are, who has disbelieved him? For the Jews were accusing him, saying why “you, being a human, make yourself God” (John 10:33); and Greeks, hearing cross and death, are disposed as about a common human and one of us. What faith then does he seek? Or clearly the faith proclaimed through the God-speakers, who have also become eyewitnesses and servants of the Word (Luke 1:2)? John therefore said that “the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us.” (John 1:14)
Greek
«Ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς ἔκραξε καὶ εἶπεν· Ὁ πιστεύων εἰς ἐμὲ οὐ πιστεύει εἰς ἐμέ, ἀλλ’ εἰς τὸν πέμψαντά με, καὶ ὁ θεωρῶν ἐμὲ θεωρεῖ τὸν πέμψαντά με.» εἶτα προσεπάγει τούτοις· «Ἐγὼ ἐξ ἐμαυτοῦ οὐκ ἐλάλησα, ἀλλ’ ὁ πέμψας με πατὴρ αὐτός μοι ἐντολὴν δέδωκε τί εἴπω καὶ τί λαλήσω.» ὅτε τοίνυν κατ’ ἐντολὰς τοῦ Πατρός, κἂν ὡς ἄνθρωπος λέγῃ, τὴν πίστιν τὴν εἰς αὐτὸν εἰς τὸν πέμψαντα αὐτὸν ἀναφέρει, καὶ ὁ θεωρῶν αὐτὸν θεωρεῖ τὸν πέμψαντα αὐτόν, τίς ὁ φάναι τολμῶν οὐκ εἶναι Θεὸν αὐτὸν καὶ τοῦτον ἀληθινόν;
Ἐκ τοῦ κατὰ Λουκᾶν εὐαγγελίου. «Πλὴν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐλθὼν ἆρα εὑρήσει τὴν πίστιν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς;» ὅταν ὁ Χριστὸς ἐξ οὐρανοῦ παραγένηται, ποίαν ἄρα ζητήσει πίστιν ἐν ἡμῖν; εἰ μὲν γὰρ ὡς ἄνθρωπος καθ’ ἡμᾶς βούλεται πιστεύεσθαι, τίς ὁ ἀπιστήσας αὐτῷ; ἐνεκάλουν γὰρ οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι λέγοντες διὰ τί «σὺ ἄνθρωπος ὢν ποιεῖς σεαυτὸν Θεόν;» Ἕλληνες δὲ σταυρὸν ἀκούοντες καὶ θάνατον ὡς περὶ ἀνθρώπου κοινοῦ διάκεινται καὶ τῶν καθ’ ἡμᾶς ἑνός. ποίαν οὖν ἄρα πίστιν ζητεῖ; ἢ δηλονότι τὴν ἐκκεκηρυγμένην διὰ τῶν θεηγόρων, οἱ καὶ αὐτόπται καὶ ὑπηρέται γεγόνασι τοῦ Λόγου; ἔφη τοίνυν Ἰωάννης ὅτι «Ὁ Λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο καὶ ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν ἡμῖν.»
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.