Baptism into one death; Word suffered willingly in flesh
“Or do you not know that as many as we were baptized into Christ Jesus, we were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the Father’s glory, so we also might walk in newness of life.” (Romans 6:3–4) Our Lord Jesus Christ, having spoiled Hades and released the multitude of spirits shut in those recesses, lived again on the third day. Then he said to the holy disciples: “Going, make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” (Matthew 28:19) So we are baptized, just as into one name of the Father, so also into one name of the Son and into his death and into the Holy Spirit.
Therefore let those who divide the one Christ and Son into two sons—and say a human was joined to God by dignity-equality alone, the natures being divided—teach into whose death we were baptized. If privately into that of the God-Word, we will clearly accuse the undefiled nature of corruption; but if they should say it is that of the one from woman thought privately and by parts and by himself, how do they not say openly that he would altogether be ranked with the Father and the Holy Spirit? So it is necessary to think that the Word of God, having become as we are, suffered willingly in flesh. For we have been baptized into his death.
Greek
«Ἢ ἀγνοεῖτε ὅτι ὅσοι ἐβαπτίσθημεν εἰς Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν, εἰς τὸν θάνατον αὐτοῦ ἐβαπτίσθημεν; συνετάφημεν οὖν αὐτῷ διὰ τοῦ βαπτίσματος εἰς τὸν θάνατον, ἵνα ὥσπερ ἠγέρθη Χριστὸς ἐκ νεκρῶν διὰ τῆς δόξης τοῦ Πατρός, οὕτως καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐν καινότητι ζωῆς περιπατήσωμεν.» ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστὸς σκυλεύσας τὸν ᾅδην, καὶ τῶν ἐκεῖσε μυχῶν τὴν τῶν καθειρχθέντων πνευμάτων ἀπολύσας πληθύν, ἀνεβίω τριήμερος. εἶτα τοῖς ἁγίοις ἔφασκε μαθηταῖς· «Πορευθέντες μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, βαπτίζοντες αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος.» βαπτιζόμεθα τοίνυν, ὥσπερ εἰς ἓν ὄνομα τοῦ Πατρός, οὕτως καὶ εἰς ἓν ὄνομα τοῦ Υἱοῦ καὶ εἰς τὸν θάνατον αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰς τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον.
διδασκέτωσαν τοίνυν οἱ διορίζοντες εἰς υἱοὺς δύο τὸν ἕνα Χριστὸν καὶ Υἱόν, ἄνθρωπόν τε Θεῷ συναφθῆναι λέγοντες κατὰ μόνην τὴν ἰσότητα τῆς ἀξίας ἤγουν αὐθεντίας, διῃρημένων τῶν φύσεων, εἰς τὸν τίνος θάνατον ἐβαπτίσθημεν. εἰ μὲν οὖν ἰδικῶς εἰς τὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγου, κατηγορήσομεν ἐναργῶς τῆς ἀκηράτου φύσεως τὴν φθοράν· εἰ δὲ δὴ φαῖεν ὅτι τοῦ ἐκ γυναικὸς ἰδίᾳ τε καὶ ἀνὰ μέρος καὶ καθ’ ἑαυτὸν νοουμένου, πῶς οὐκ ἐκεῖνο φασὶν ἀναφανδὸν ὅτι παντῇ τε καὶ πάντως αὐτὸς εἴη ἂν συντεταγμένος τῷ Πατρὶ καὶ τῷ Ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι; οὐκοῦν ἀνάγκη νοεῖν ὅτι γεγονὼς καθ’ ἡμᾶς ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγος, σαρκὶ πέπονθεν ἑκών. βεβαπτίσμεθα γὰρ εἰς τὸν θάνατον αὐτοῦ.
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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