On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth, Book 1
Cyril and Palladius on why Christ fulfills the Law rather than tearing it up. Book 1 of a seventeen-book dialogue — not the whole work.
English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. Open Greek on each section for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.
- 1 The little book of Matthew and John
- 2 Fulfill the Law; worship in spirit and truth
- 3 The Law is type and shadow
- 4 We do not abolish the Law; we establish it
- 5 Painters, bronze, and Moses' veil
- 6 Milk for infants; the calf; tablets of stone
- 7 Ask, seek, knock; man turned aside
- 8 Breath of life; the woman as type of pleasure
- 9 Desire conceives sin; Abraham goes down to Egypt
- 10 A famine of hearing; Sarah is taken
- 11 Pharaoh's gifts; God rescues Sarah
- 12 You were angry, and we sinned
- 13 The way of life and the way of death
- 14 We love the goods in hand too late
- 15 Egypt's marrow; Rabshakeh's vines
- 16 Desire of the flesh, of the eyes, and pride of life
- 17 Sojourners; leave your land
- 18 Follow Christ; Abraham leaves Haran
- 19 Theophany and altar; Lot at Sodom's gate
- 20 Lot receives the angels
- 21 The angels take Lot by the hand
- 22 Save your soul; do not stand in the country round
- 23 The mountain, and Zoar the smaller city
- 24 Solid food, marriage, and unequal gifts
- 25 Lot's wife; the cave in the rock
- 26 Abraham goes up from Egypt
- 27 Call on the Lord; brick and mortar
- 28 Let my people go, that they may feast
- 29 A three days' journey; death or murder
- 30 Sacrifice in the wilderness; idle, you are idle
- 31 Be still and know; I will redeem you
- 32 Signs, plagues, and 'sacrifice in the land'
- 33 Two paths; the abominations of Egypt
- 34 Many called, few chosen
- 35 Young and old, flocks and herds
- 36 Not a hoof left behind
- 37 Gold from Egypt; the Passover lamb
- 38 Unleavened dough; songs by the willows
- 39 How shall we sing in a strange land