Book Eleven opens: the priesthood of the law as a type of Christ's
ON ADORATION AND WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH — BOOK ELEVEN. On the priesthood, and that the priesthood under the law was a type of the priesthood in Christ.
Cyril: We have now completed a sufficient discussion of the tabernacle and of the oracles given concerning it, polished very well and elegantly to a spiritual subtlety. Now it would be fitting, as it seems to me (and you yourself will agree, I know), to take up the honors of the priesthood, and the way in which the true priesthood is signified through the priesthood in type and under the law: that is, the priesthood which, in Christ and through him, sanctifies the sacred race. By the sacred race I mean, once again, those who have been made radiant in faith and enriched with closeness to God through sharing in the Holy Spirit.
Palladius: It would indeed be fitting, and very rightly so.
Cyril: When the holy tabernacle had been finished with fitting adornment, and brought into the form shown on the mountain to the inspired Moses (Exodus 25:40), God went on to appoint the priests. He said (Exodus 28:1): ‘And you, bring near to yourself Aaron your brother and his sons
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ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΕΝ ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΗΣΕΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΤΡΕΙΑΣ ΛΟΓΟΣ ΕΝΔΕΚΑΤΟΣ. Περὶ ἱερωσύνης, καὶ ὅτι τύπος ἦν κατὰ νόμον τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ.
{ΚΥΡ.} Σκηνῆς μὲν δὴ πέρι καὶ τῶν ἐπ' αὐτῇ κεχρησμῳδημένων, ἀποχρῶν ἡμῖν εὖ μάλα καὶ ἀστείως ἀπεξεσμένος εἰς ἰσχνότητα τὴν πνευματικὴ ἐκπεποίηται λόγος. Πρέποι δ' ἂν, ὥς γέ μοι φαίνεται, συνερεῖς δέ που καὶ αὐτὸς, οἶδ' ὅτι, τῶν ἱερωσύνης ἅψασθαι γερῶν, τίνα τε αὖ τὸν τρόπον διὰ τῆς ἐν τύπῳ καὶ κατὰ νόμον ἡ ἀληθὴς σημαίνεται, τοῦτ' ἔστιν, ἡ ἐν Χριστῷ τε καὶ δι' αὐτοῦ τὸ ἱερὸν ἁγιάζουσα γένος, φημὶ δὲ δὴ πάλιν τοὺς ἐν πίστει λελαμπρυσμένους, καὶ τὴν εἰς Θεὸν οἰκειότητα πεπλουτηκότας, διά γε τοῦ μεταλαχεῖν ἁγίου Πνεύματος.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Πρέποι γὰρ ἂν καὶ μάλα εἰκότως.
{ΚΥΡ.} Ἀποτελεσθείσης δὴ οὖν ἐν κόσμῳ τῷ πρέποντι τῆς ἁγίας σκηνῆς, καὶ εἰς εἶδος ἐνηνεγμένης τὸ ἐν τῷ ὄρει παραδειχθὲν τῷ θεσπεσίῳ Μωσῇ, τὴν τῶν ἱερέων ἀνάδειξιν ἐποιεῖτο Θεὸς, καὶ δὴ καὶ ἔφασκε, «Καὶ σὺ προσαγάγου πρὸς ἑαυτὸν τόν τε Ἀαρὼν τὸν ἀδελφόν σου καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ ἐκ