Hosea’s wife and Melchizedek’s origin
…begot children from her in deed and energy, or does he speak things understood prophetically? If Melchizedek is not simply a man nor a spirit, but a man having no beginning of generation from humans, but newly created by God (Genesis 14:18-20; cf. Hebrews 7:3). CYR. On these chapters a long discourse has been made by us when we were writing on the…
Greek
έκνωσεν ἐξ αὐτῆς πράξει καὶ ἐνεργείᾳ, ἢ προφητικῶς νοούμενα λέγει. Εἰ ὁ Μελχισεδὲκ οὐκ ἄνθρωπος ἁπλῶς οὐδὲ πνεῦμα, ἀλλ' ἄνθρωπος ἀρχὴν γενέσεως οὐκ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἔχων ἀλλὰ προσφάτως δημιουργηθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ. CYR.Περὶ τούτων τῶν κεφαλαίων μακρὸς ἡμῖν πεποίηται λόγος, ὅτε ἐγράφομεν εἰς τὸν
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Cyril of Alexandria, Solutiones Vat. 447 fragment (Greek).
Original English Translation of Cyril’s Solutiones Vat.
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