Rich man and Lazarus: deed or type of judgment?
Fragments.
8. There was a rich man, feasting splendidly each day; and a poor man, Lazarus, was cast at his gate, covered with sores, according to the Gospel history (Luke 16:19-23). Both died: the poor man went to rest, the other to punishment. Have these things already happened, and was a fitting repayment allotted to each — or does the story stamp the image of the coming judgment…
Greek
Solutiones (fragmentum e tractatu de dogmatum solutione) (e cod. Vat. gr. 447) Ηʹ. Ἄνθρωπός τις ἦν πλούσιος, εὐφραινόμενος καθ' ἡμέραν λαμπρῶς· πτωχὸς δέ τις Λάζαρος ἐπὶ τὸν τούτου πυλῶνα ἐβέβλητο ἡλκωμένος κατὰ τὴν εὐαγγελικὴν ἱστορίαν. ἐγένετο οὖν ἀμφοτέροις ἀποθανεῖν καὶ τοῦτον μὲν τὸν πτωχὸν εἰς τὴν ἀνάπαυσιν ἀπελθεῖν, τὸν δὲ εἰς τὴν κόλασιν. ταῦτα ἤδη γέγονε 86 καὶ ἀνταπόδοσις ἀξία ἐκληρώθη ἑκάστῳ, ἢ τῆς μελλούσης κρίσεως ἀνατυποῖ τὴν
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Cyril of Alexandria, Solutiones Vat. 447 fragment (Greek).
Original English Translation of Cyril’s Solutiones Vat. 447 fragment — new OET from PG 77 Greek.
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- Copy-text PG 77 (Greek)
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