Appears for us not naked Word but in our form
“For Christ did not enter into handmade holies, antitypes of the true ones, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us.” (Hebrews 9:24) And he appears now for us before God’s face—in what manner? Was he not always apparent even before the incarnation? Therefore he appears in a new way: no longer a naked and fleshless Word, as indeed he also was in the beginning (John 1:1), but in the form and nature that is as we are. For we say that thus he has now appeared for us and, as it were, led human nature into the sight of God and Father, although it had come into aversion through the transgression in Adam (Romans 5:12–19). So then he presents us in the Father’s eyes, as in himself and first, insofar as he has appeared as human, so that he might bring us near to the Father.
Greek
«Οὐ γὰρ εἰς χειροποίητα εἰσῆλθεν ἅγια Χριστός, ἀντίτυπα τῶν ἀληθινῶν, ἀλλ’ εἰς αὐτὸν τὸν οὐρανόν, νῦν ἐμφανισθῆναι τῷ προσώπῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν.» ἐμφανίζεται δὲ νῦν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν τῷ προσώπῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ, τίνα τρόπον; ἄρα γὰρ οὐκ ἀεὶ καὶ πρὸ τῆς ἐνανθρωπήσεως ὑπάρχων ἐμφανής; οὐκοῦν ἐμφανίζεται ξένως, οὐκέτι γυμνὸς καὶ ἄσαρκος Λόγος, καθάπερ ἀμέλει καὶ ἐν ἀρχαῖς ἦν, ἀλλ’ ἐν μορφῇ τε καὶ φύσει τῇ καθ’ ἡμᾶς. φαμὲν γὰρ οὕτως αὐτὸν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἐμφανισθῆναι νυνὶ καὶ οἷον ἐν ὄψει τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρὸς τὴν ἀνθρώπου φύσιν ἀγαγεῖν, καίτοι γενομένην ἐν ἀποστροφῇ διὰ τὴν ἐν Ἀδὰμ παράβασιν. ἡμᾶς οὖν ἄρα παρίστησιν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς τοῦ Πατρός, ὡς ἐν ἑαυτῷ καὶ πρώτῳ, καθὸ πέφηνεν ἄνθρωπος, ἵνα ἡμᾶς προσαγάγῃ τῷ Πατρί.
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)
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