Missed redemption year; nations always redeemable; Mary’s good portion; Ezekiel leader
Cyril: …having been walled, and girded with the helps from above, and having city minds, and not having been ignorant of what seems good to God, then having neglected the fitting, having thrown away from easiness the lot apportioned to themselves, and having fallen out of the very hope, unless they should sober out from their drunkenness, according to what has been written, and take up again the own things, of the year of the ransoming having stood in—that is, of our Savior’s sojourn—they will remain thereafter, and will continually underlie the one having bought, that is Satan. ‘For behold,’ (Luke 10:42) he says, ‘you have been sold by your lawlessnesses, and by your sins I have sent out your mother.’ (Isaiah 50:1) And the multitude of the nations being altogether without-help, and sick with the rustic and unlearned mind, in this way also having been thrust toward the slavery under others, is redeemable through all, with God pitying; for it will take up the own lot having been called toward freedom, in the year of the release, when Christ released all the under sun from the greed of the demons, and took out from the snares of the sin, and has justified in faith, and has sanctified in spirit, having abolished by his own cross the handwriting against us, and the Levitical things unsellable; for the lot has been kept safely for the saints, and they have the hope firmly set. And indeed upon the most learning-loving Mary Christ somehow said, that she chose the good portion, which will not be taken away from her. Yet of small and great priest and people, and of all simply the ransoming in Christ and the firm of the hope.
Palladius: So then Israel will sell-out the own lot, not having recognized the year of the ransoming; yet the nations will be in possession of the hope, and a taking-up again of the goods of the nature will be through Christ.
Cyril: Thus I say; and the God of the wholes will seal our word unto the true also signaling this according to another manner, through Ezekiel’s voice, in the measuring-through of the house: ‘Thus says Lord: If the leader should give a gift to one from his sons, from his inheritance, this will be for his sons; or to one of his servants, and it will be for him until the year of the release. And he will give back to the leader, yet of the inheritance of his sons for them it will be, and the leader will not take from the inheritance of his people to tyrannize them from his possession, from his inheritance to inherit for his sons, in order that my people may not be scattered, each from his possession.’ (Colossians 2:14) So then is the oracle clear for you, and is the mind of the history seen bare?
Palladius: Least; and I would learn as most sweetly.
Cyril: He calls leader, O Palladius, the high priest, the one allotted to lead the peoples under hand. So then since fitting and exceptional lots have been distributed to the holy (Ezekiel 46:16–18)
Greek
τετειχισμένην, καὶ ταῖς ἄνωθεν ἐπικουρίαις διεζωσμένην, καὶ φρένας ἔχοντες ἀστικὰς, καὶ τὸ τῷ Θεῷ δοκοῦν οὐκ ἠγνοηκότες, εἶτα τοῦ πρέποντος ἀλογήσαντες, τὸν σφίσιν αὐτοῖς ἀπονεμηθέντα κλῆρον ἀποβεβληκότες ἐκ ῥᾳθυμίας, καὶ τῆς ἄγαν ἐλπίδος ἐκπεπτωκότες, εἰ μὴ ἐκνήψειαν ἂν ἐκ μέθης αὐτῶν, κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον, καὶ ἀνακομίσαιντο τὰ οἰκεῖα, τοῦ τῆς λυτρώσεως ἐνεστηκότος ἐνιαυτοῦ, τοῦτ' ἔστι, τῆς τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἐπιδημίας, ἀπομενοῦσι λοιπὸν, καὶ διηνεκῶς ὑποκείσονται τῷ πριαμένῳ, τοῦτ' ἔστι τῷ Σατανᾷ. «Ἰδοὺ γὰρ, φησὶ, ταῖς ἀνομίαις ὑμῶν ἐπράθητε, καὶ ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις ὑμῶν ἐξαπέστειλα τὴν μητέρα ὑμῶν.» Ἀνεπικούρητος δὲ παντελῶς ἡ τῶν ἐθνῶν οὖσα πληθὺς, καὶ τὴν ἄγροικόν τε καὶ ἀμαθῆ νοσοῦσα φρένα, ταύτῃτοι καὶ ἐξωσμένη πρὸς τὴν ὑφ' ἑτέροις δουλείαν, λυτρωτὴ διὰ παντός ἐστιν, ἐποικτείροντος τοῦ Θεοῦ· ἀναλήψεται γὰρ τὸν ἴδιον κλῆρον κεκλημένη πρὸς ἐλευθερίαν, ἐν τῷ ἔτει τῆς ἀφέσεως, ὅτε πᾶσαν τὴν ὑφ' ἡλίῳ τῆς τῶν δαιμονίων πλεονεξίας ἀνῆκε Χριστὸς, καὶ τῶν τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἐξείλετο βρόχων, καὶ δεδικαίωκεν ἐν πίστει, καὶ ἡγίακεν ἐν πνεύματι, καταργήσας τῷ ἰδίῳ σταυρῷ τὸ καθ' ἡμῶν χειρόγραφον, ἀνεκποίητα δὲ τὰ Λευϊτικά· τετήρηται γὰρ ἀσφαλῶς τοῖς ἁγίοις ὁ κλῆρος, καὶ ἐρηρεισμένην ἔχουσι τὴν ἐλπίδα. Καὶ γοῦν ἐπὶ τῇ φιλομαθεστάτῃ Μαριὰμ ἔφη που Χριστὸς, ὅτι τὴν καλὴν μερίδα ἐξελέξατο, ἥτις οὐκ ἀφαιρεθήσεται ἀπ' αὐτῆς. Πλὴν μικροῦ καὶ μεγάλου ἱερέως καὶ λαοῦ, καὶ πάντων τῶν ἁπαξαπλῶς ἡ λύτρωσις ἐν Χριστῷ καὶ τὸ τῆς ἐλπίδος ἀσφαλές.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Ἀπεμπωλήσει δὴ οὖν τὸν ἴδιον κλῆρον ὁ Ἰσραὴλ, τῆς λυτρώσεως τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν οὐκ ἐπεγνωκώς· ἔσται γε μὴν ἐν καθέξει τῆς ἐλπίδος τὰ ἔθνη, καὶ τῶν τῆς φύσεως ἀγαθῶν ἐπανάληψις ἔσται διὰ Χριστοῦ.
{ΚΥΡ.} Οὕτω φημί· κατασφραγιεῖ δὲ τὸν λόγον ἡμῶν εἰς τὸ ἀληθὲς, ὁ τῶν ὅλων Θεὸς καὶ καθ' ἕτερον τοῦτο σημαίνων τρόπον, διὰ φωνῆς Ἰεζεχιὴλ, ἐν τῇ τοῦ οἴκου διαμετρήσει· «Τάδε λέγει Κύριος· Ἐὰν δῷ ὁ ἀφηγούμενος δόμα ἑνὶ ἐκ τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ, ἐκ τῆς κληρονομίας αὐτοῦ, τοῦτο τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτοῦ ἔσται· ἢ ἑνὶ τῶν παίδων αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔσται αὐτῷ ἕως τοῦ ἔτους τῆς ἀφέσεως. Καὶ ἀποδώσει τῷ ἀφηγουμένῳ, πλὴν τῆς κληρονομίας τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ αὐτοῖς ἔσται, καὶ οὐ μὴ λάβῃ ὁ ἀφηγούμενος ἐκ τῆς κληρονομίας τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ καταδυναστεῦσαι αὐτοὺς ἐκ τῆς κατασχέσεως αὐτοῦ, ἀπὸ κληρονομίας αὐτοῦ κατακληρονομῆσαι τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτοῦ, ὅπως μὴ διασκορπίζηται ὁ λαός μου, ἕκαστος ἀπὸ κατασχέσεως αὐτοῦ.» Ἆρά σοι σαφὲς τὸ χρησμῴδημα, καὶ ψιλὸς ὁρᾶται τῆς ἱστορίας ὁ νοῦς;
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Οὐδαμῶς· ἀναμάθοιμι δ' ἂν ὡς ἥδιστά γε.
{ΚΥΡ.} Ἡγούμενον, ὦ Παλλάδιε, τὸν ἀρχιερέα καλεῖ, τὸν καθηγεῖσθαι λαχόντα τῶν ὑπὸ χεῖρα λαῶν. Οὐκοῦν ἐπειδήπερ ἐπιτήδειοι καὶ ἐξαίρετοι τοῖς ἁγίοις
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