Priestly meal holy; Christ sanctifies many ways; calf fat virtues; suffered outside
Cyril: …his sons will eat the meats of the ram, and the breads in the basket, beside the doors of the tent of the testimony they will eat them, in which they were sanctified in them to perfect their hands to sanctify them, and a foreigner will not eat from them; for they are holy. And if from the meats of the sacrifice of the perfection and of the breads should be left until morning, you will burn the remaining things with fire. It will not be eaten; for it is a holy-thing.’
Palladius: How deep the matter of the legal commands.
Cyril: Deep indeed very much; for you have spoken uprightly; yet not altogether unclear, with the divine light of the holy Spirit flashing in us. And come then again, as possible, let us say the things upon each. In countless manners our Lord Jesus Christ sanctifies us, and finishes us sacred and well-acceptable. For through him and in him we have had the approach, and we are not unwanted to God and Father. And most needful and necessary unto salvation for us under corruption and sin are both… which also would be unto a type of the virtues unto the inward and unto mind, in which is the fragrant spiritually, yet not according to one manner, since indeed many are the inwards, fat and kidneys, and the lobe of the liver. And the remaining of the body is burned, outside the camp. For outside the gate Christ has suffered; and Paul writes thus. And the being spent with fire of the body would signify thinly, that the passion for him and the (Exodus 29:31–34) (Hebrews 13:12) (Ephesians 2:18)
Greek
υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ τὰ κρέα τοῦ κριοῦ, καὶ τοὺς ἄρτους τοὺς ἐν τῷ κανῷ, παρὰ τὰς θύρας τῆς σκηνῆς τοῦ μαρτυρίου ἔδονται αὐτὰ, ἐν οἷς ἡγιάσθησαν ἐν αὐτοῖς τελειῶσαι τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν ἁγιάσαι αὐτοὺς, καὶ ἀλλογενὴς οὐκ ἔδεται ἀπ' αὐτῶν· ἔστι γὰρ ἅγια. Ἐὰν δὲ καταλειφθῇ ἀπὸ τῶν κρεῶν τῆς θυσίας τῆς τελειώσεως καὶ τῶν ἄρτων ἕως πρωῒ, κατακαύσεις τὰ λοιπὰ πυρί. Οὐ βρωθήσεται· ἁγίασμα γάρ ἐστι.»
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Ὡς βαθὺ τὸ χρῆμα τῶν νομικῶν ἐνταλμάτων.
{ΚΥΡ.} Βαθὺ μὲν οὖν λίαν· ἔφης γὰρ ὀρθῶς· πλὴν οὐκ εἰσάπαν ἀσυμφανὲς, τὸ θεῖον ἐν ἡμῖν ἐναστράπτοντος φῶς τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος. Καὶ φέρε δὴ πάλιν, ὡς ἔνι, τὰ ἐφ' ἑκάστῳ λέγωμεν. Κατὰ μυρίους ὅσους ἡμᾶς ἁγιάζει τρόπους ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς, ἱερούς τε καὶ εὐπροσδέκτους ἀποτελεῖ. Δι' αὐτοῦ γάρ τε καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ τὴν προσαγωγὴν ἐσχήκαμεν, καί ἐσμεν οὐκ ἀνεθέλητοι τῷ Θεῷ καὶ Πατρί. Χρειωδέστατά τε καὶ ἀναγκαῖα πρὸς σωτηρίαν ἡμῖν, τοῖς ὑπὸ φθοράν τε καὶ ἁμαρτίαν, ὅ τε θάνατος αὐτοῦ καὶ μέν τοι καὶ ἡ ζωὴ, καὶ πρὸς τούτοις ἔτι ἡ διὰ τοῦ σώματός τε καὶ αἵματος αὐτοῦ τελείωσις· ἐν Χριστῷ γὰρ δὴ, καὶ οὐκ ἐν νόμῳ τὸ τέλειον.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Εὖ ἔφης.
{ΚΥΡ.} Ἄθρει δὴ οὖν ὡς ἐν τύποις ἔτι τὰ δι' ὧν εὖ μάλα σεσώσμεθά τε καὶ ἡγιάσμεθα, ἱεροί τε καὶ ἅγιοι γεγόναμεν ἐν Χριστῷ. Μοσχάριον ἦν ἐκ βοῶν τὸ εἰς θυσίαν ἠγμένον, καὶ σφάζεται μὲν πρὸς αὐταῖς ταῖς θύραις τῆς ἁγίας σκηνῆς, ἐπενηνεγμένων αὐτῷ τῶν χειρῶν. Προσεχεῖτο δὲ τὸ αἷμα τῷ θυσιαστηρίῳ, καταχριομένων αὐτῷ τῶν κεράτων· καὶ καπνίζονται μὲν ἐν τάξει τῶν εὐοσμοτάτων θυμιαμάτων τὰ ἐντόσθια. Τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν ἐμπίπραται σῶμα, διακομισθὲν ἐπέκεινα τῆς παρεμβολῆς. Καὶ μοσχάριον μὲν ὁ Χριστὸς, ὡς ἔξω ζυγοῦ καὶ ὑπὸ ζυγόν. Θεὸς γὰρ ὢν φύσει γέγονεν ὑπὸ νόμον διὰ τὸ ἀνθρώπινον. ἦ γὰρ οὐχὶ τὸ βραχὺ μοσχάριον ζυγοῦ μὲν ἄηθές ἐστι, φύσεώς γε μὴν τῆς ὑπὸ ζυγόν;
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Ὧδε ἔχει.
{ΚΥΡ.} Μοσχάριον δὴ οὖν ὠνόμασται πάλιν οἰκονομικῶς ὁ Χριστὸς, ἵν' ἐν ταυτῷ νοῆται πρὸς ἡμῶν καὶ τὸ ἄηθες τῆς τοῦ Λόγου θεότητος εἰς δουλείαν, καὶ τὸ ὡς ἐν φύσει γενέσθαι τῇ ὑπὸ ζυγὸν κατά γε τὸ ἀνθρώπινον. Σφάζεται δὲ ὡς ὑπέρ γε τῆς ἁγίας σκηνῆς καὶ τῶν ἐπιθέντων αὐτῷ τὰς χεῖρας· Λευῖται δὲ οὗτοι καὶ ἱερεῖς· ἀπέθανε γὰρ ὑπέρ τε τῆς Ἐκκλησίας καὶ τῶν αὐτῷ καθιερωμένων διὰ τῆς πίστεως. Ἱερὸς δὲ ὅτι καὶ ὡς ἐν τρόπῳ θυσίας εὐπρόσδεκτος τῷ Θεῷ καὶ Πατρὶ τοῦ Ἐμμανουὴλ ὁ θάνατος, πάρα σοι νοεῖν, προσχεομένου τοῦ αἵματος τῷ ἁγίῳ θυσιαστηρίῳ, καὶ καταχρίοντος αὐτὸ, θυμιωμένων δὲ καὶ τῶν ἐντοσθίων, ἃ καὶ εἰς τύπον εἶεν ἂν τῶν εἰς τὸ ἔσω καὶ εἰς νοῦν ἀρετῶν, αἷς ἔνεστι μὲν τὸ εὐῶδες πνευματικῶς, οὐ καθ' ἕνα δὲ τρόπον, ἐπεί τοι πολλὰ τὰ ἐντόσθια, πιμελὴ καὶ νεφροὶ, καὶ ὁ λοβὸς τοῦ ἥπατος. Ἐμπίπραται δὲ τοῦ σώματος τὸ λειπόμενον, ἔξω τῆς παρεμβολῆς. Ἔξω γὰρ τῆς πύλης ἔπαθεν ὁ Χριστός· γράφει δὲ οὕτως ὁ Παῦλος. Τὸ δέ γε πυρὶ δαπανᾶσθαι τὸ σῶμα κατασημήνειεν ἂν ἰσχνῶς, ὅτι τὸ πάθος αὐτῷ καὶ ὁ θά
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Cyril continues the dialogue with Palladius. Book 11 of a seventeen-book dialogue — not the whole work.
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