Widow-daughter returns; Synagogue apostasy type; Jeremiah charges

Cyril: …works and destruction. So then rejectable, even if somehow a sacred and holy soul should be, leaping upon such shameful pollutions. For altogether unholy is everything whichever should become abominable and polluted, through lying upon base and unholy men. And next to this he at once oracled another law; and it holds thus: ‘And a daughter of a priest, if she should become a cast-out widow, and seed should not be for her, will turn back upon her paternal house according to her youth; from the breads of her Father she will eat.’ (Leviticus 22:12–13) So then the word of the history is clear, I think; but one must go toward the inward and hidden thoughts. For if, he says, a soul should become rejectable as condemned, and thereafter appear empty of a husband, that is of the intelligible bridegroom, having no fruit from virtue; let her make the walking running toward the in beginnings, and let her return keenly upon the house of her own father, clearly through repentance seeking the intimacy toward God, and then she will eat of his breads. And it grieves nothing also to fit the power of the things said to what we said just now. For if, he says, it should happen that a sacred and holy soul carried under under profane men should slip unto wandering, and receive pollution of alien dogmas, and through this become as it were some widow and sent-away from God, yet somehow sobering and learning what she slipped on, let her return toward the Father. For he receives the wandered, if they should appear clean of the unholy seeds mixed into them, if they should bring forward nothing leftover of the abomination of those who led astray; and thus he herds-together with the holy worshippers, setting himself alongside as bread from heaven, the life-making food for them. And I at least think the lawgiver also under-shows something else for us through these laws. For he as it were pre-voices the apostasy of the Synagogue of the Jews, and the justice upon this, and the kindness about to be upon her according to times, bearing unto return by mercy of God, and bringing back unto the in beginning. For ‘A daughter,’ (Isaiah 29:13) he says, ‘of a human priest, if she should become to an alien man, will not eat of the firstfruits of the holy things.’ (John 6:32–35) For as far as it came unto teaching and learning, all-divine Moses has become as it were some father of the Synagogue of the Jews. So then she was a priest’s daughter; for Moses also is a sacred-worker, inasmuch as also existing from blood and tribe of Levi. But this one’s daughter has become to an alien human. For deeming the things defined from God of altogether little word, and somehow neglecting the seeds from above, she has practiced teachings, commandments of humans, and fruit-bears for the opinion-givings of others; in this way God was blaming saying to her through Jeremiah’s voice: ‘Lift your eyes unto a straight, and see, where you have not been mixed; upon the roads you sat for them as a deserted crow, and you defiled the land in your prostitution and in your evils, and you had many shepherds, unto a stumbling for yourself.’ (Jeremiah 3:1–2) But these at least are ancient charges of the Synagogue of the Jews; and brother to these also