Raised in his own body; every thought captive to Christ’s obedience
…Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9) Then how would he be said to have been raised from the dead — though by nature immortal as God — unless one first receives the accounts about the becoming-human, and is disposed that he made his own the body that is apt to die, and endured death in it in a human way, but came back to life in a divine way as incorruption and life?
“For the weapons of our campaign are not fleshly, but powerful with God for the tearing down of strongholds, tearing down reasonings and every height raised against the knowledge of God, and taking every thought captive into the obedience of Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:4–5) The saints’ war is not thick and bodily, but rather lean and mental. For they are accustomed to succeed not by moving fleshly weapons… but fitted with the weapons of the truth, rising up spiritually… against those who want to mis-mark it and twist the straightness of the divine doctrines… So the saints’ weapons are not fleshly, but rather powerful with God. For they tear down reasonings that carry us off into outlandish thoughts… and if someone should lift a horn high among those who habitually speak injustice against God, they all but strike him down with thoughts toward straightness, turning him to the right path and setting him into the words of the truth.
Greek
…Κύριον Ἰησοῦν, καὶ πιστεύσῃς ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς αὐτὸν ἤγειρεν ἐκ νεκρῶν, σωθήσῃ.» εἶτα πῶς ἂν ἐκ νεκρῶν ἐγερθῆναι λέγοιτο, καίτοι τὴν φύσιν ἀθάνατος ὢν ὡς Θεός, εἰ μὴ προεισδέξαιτό τις τοὺς περὶ ἐνανθρωπήσεως λόγους, διατεθείη τε ὅτι τὸ πεφυκὸς ἀποθνῄσκειν ἴδιον ἐποιήσατο σῶμα καὶ ὑπέμεινε μὲν ἐν αὐτῷ τὸν θάνατον ἀνθρωπίνως, ἀνεβίω δὲ θεϊκῶς ὡς ἀφθαρσία καὶ ζωή;
«Τὰ γὰρ ὅπλα τῆς στρατείας ἡμῶν οὐ σαρκικὰ, ἀλλὰ δυνατὰ τῷ Θεῷ πρὸς καθαίρεσιν ὀχυρωμάτων, λογισμοὺς καθαιροῦντες καὶ πᾶν ὕψωμα ἐπαιρόμενον κατὰ τῆς γνώσεως τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ αἰχμαλωτίζοντες πᾶν νόημα εἰς τὴν ὑπακοὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ.» οὐ παχὺς καὶ σωματικὸς, ἰσχνὸς δὲ μᾶλλον καὶ νοητὸς, τῶν ἁγίων ὁ πόλεμος. εἰώθασι γὰρ εὐδοκιμεῖν, οὐχ ὅπλα κινοῦντες σαρκικὰ… ἀλλὰ τοῖς τῆς ἀληθείας ὅπλοις ἐνηρμοσμένοι, πνευματικῶς ἀνιστάμενοί τε… τοῖς ἐθέλουσι παρασημαίνειν αὐτὴν καὶ τῶν θείων δογμάτων τὴν ὀρθότητα παρατρέπουσιν… οὐ σαρκικὰ τοιγαροῦν τῶν ἁγίων τὰ ὅπλα, δυνατὰ δὲ μᾶλλον τῷ Θεῷ. καθαιροῦσι γὰρ λογισμοὺς τοὺς εἰς ἐκτόπους ἡμᾶς ἐννοίας ἀποκομίζοντας… κἂν εἴ τις εἰς ὕψος ἐπαίροι τὸ κέρας τῶν εἰωθότων λαλεῖν ἀδικίαν κατὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ, τοῦτον ἐννοίαις ταῖς εἰς ὀρθότητα μονονουχὶ καταπαίουσι, μετατιθέντες εἰς τὸ εὐθὺ καὶ τοῖς τῆς ἀληθείας ἐμβιβάζοντες λόγοις.
About this text
Cyril’s court treatise on right faith for Pulcheria and Eudocia (CPG 5220). One Son who suffers in flesh yet remains impassible as God. English from Pusey’s Greek.
English follows Pusey’s 1877 Greek of De recta fide ad Pulcheriam et Eudociam. 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 5220 §§1–48)
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.