On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth, Book 14 · §13

Numbers jealousy ordeal water quoted in full

Cyril: …will be known, and the in each clearly, and through another law again he was typing-through for us. For it has been written in the Numbers: ‘And Lord spoke toward Moses, saying: Speak to the sons of Israel, and you will say toward them: Of a man if his woman should transgress, and having overlooked she should overlook him, and someone should sleep with her a bed of seed, and it should escape from eyes of her man, and she should hide, and she herself should be defiled, and a witness was not with her, and she herself should not have been caught, and a spirit of jealousy should come-upon him, and he should be jealous of his woman, and she herself has been defiled, or a spirit of jealousy should come-upon him, and he should be jealous of his woman, and she herself should not have been defiled; and the human will lead his woman toward the priest, and he will bring forward the gift about her, the tenth of the ephah barley flour; he will not pour oil upon it, nor will he put frankincense upon it; for it is a sacrifice of jealousy, a sacrifice of memorial, reminding sin. And the priest will bring her near, and will stand her opposite Lord, and the priest will take clean living water in a clay vessel, and of the earth being upon the floor of the tent of the witness; and the priest having taken will cast into the water, and the priest will stand the woman opposite Lord, and will uncover the head of the woman, and will give upon her hands the sacrifice of the memorial, the sacrifice of the jealousy; and in the hand of the priest will be the water of the conviction of this having-been-cursed; and the priest will oath her, and will say to the woman: If someone has not slept with you, if you have not transgressed to be defiled under your own man, be guiltless from the water of the conviction of this having-been-cursed. And if you have transgressed being under-man, if you have been defiled, and someone has given his bed in you, yet of your man; and the priest will oath the woman in the oaths of this curse, and the priest will say to the woman: May Lord give you in a curse and an oath in midst of your people, in Lord’ (Numbers 5:11–28)s giving your thigh having fallen-through, and your belly having been inflamed. And this cursing water will go into your belly, to inflame a stomach, and for your thigh to fall-through. And the woman will say: May it become, may it become. And the priest will write these curses into a book, and will wipe-out into the water of the conviction of the having-been-cursed, and will make the woman drink the water of the conviction of the having-been-cursed. And the cursing water of the conviction will go into her; and the priest will take from hand of the woman the sacrifice of the jealousy, and will put the sacrifice opposite Lord, and will bring it forward toward the altar. And the priest will grasp from the sacrifice its memorial, and it will be brought-up upon the altar, and after these he will make the woman drink the water. And it will be, if she should be defiled and should escape-escape her man, and the cursing water of the conviction will go into her, and she will be inflamed as to the belly, and her thigh will fall-through, and the woman will be unto a curse for her people. And if she should not be defiled’

Greek

γνωσθήσεται δὲ τὰ ἐν ἑκάστῳ σαφῶς, καὶ δι' ἑτέρου πάλιν ἡμῖν διετύπου νόμου. Γέγραπται γὰρ ἐν τοῖς Ἀριθμοῖς· «Καὶ ἐλάλησε Κύριος πρὸς Μωσῆν, λέγων· Λάλησον τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἰσραὴλ, καὶ ἐρεῖς πρὸς αὐτούς· Ἀνδρὸς ἐὰν παραβῇ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὑπεριδοῦσα παρίδῃ αὐτὸν, καὶ κοιμηθῇ τις μετ' αὐτῆς κοίτην σπέρματος, καὶ λάθῃ ἐξ ὀφθαλμῶν τοῦ ἀνδρὸς αὐτῆς, καὶ κρύψῃ, αὐτὴ δὲ ᾖ μεμιασμένη, καὶ μάρτυς μὴ ἦν μετ' αὐτῆς, καὶ αὐτὴ μὴ ᾖ συνειλημμένη, καὶ ἐπέλθῃ αὐτῷ πνεῦμα ζηλώσεως, καὶ ζηλώσῃ τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, αὐτὴ δὲ μεμίανται, ἢ ἐπέλθῃ αὐτῷ πνεῦμα ζηλώσεως, καὶ ζηλώσῃ τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, αὐτὴ δὲ μὴ ᾖ μεμιασμένη· καὶ ἄξει ὁ ἄνθρωπος τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὸν ἱερέα, καὶ προσοίσει τὸ δῶρον περὶ αὐτῆς, τὸ δέκατον τοῦ οἰφὶ ἄλευρον κρίθινον, οὐκ ἐπιχεῖ ἐπ' αὐτὸ ἔλαιον, οὐδὲ ἐπιθήσει ἐπ' αὐτὸ λίβανον· ἔστι γὰρ θυσία ζηλοτυπίας, θυσία μνημοσύνου, ἀναμιμνήσκουσα ἁμαρτίαν. Καὶ προσάξει αὐτὴν ὁ ἱερεὺς, καὶ στήσει αὐτὴν ἔναντι Κυρίου, καὶ λήψεται ὁ ἱερεὺς ὕδωρ καθαρὸν ζῶν ἐν ἀγγείῳ ὀστρακίνῳ, καὶ τῆς γῆς τῆς οὔσης ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐδάφους τῆς σκηνῆς τοῦ μαρτυρίου· καὶ λαβὼν ὁ ἱερεὺς ἐμβαλεῖ εἰς τὸ ὕδωρ, καὶ στήσει ὁ ἱερεὺς τὴν γυναῖκα ἔναντι Κυρίου, καὶ ἀποκαλύψει τὴν κεφαλὴν τῆς γυναικὸς, καὶ δώσει ἐπὶ τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῆς τὴν θυσίαν τοῦ μνημοσύνου, τὴν θυσίαν τῆς ζηλοτυπίας· ἐν δὲ τῇ χειρὶ τοῦ ἱερέως ἔσται τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦ ἐλεγμοῦ τοῦ ἐπικαταρωμένου τούτου· καὶ ὁρκιεῖ αὐτὴν ὁ ἱερεὺς, καὶ ἐρεῖ τῇ γυναικί· Εἰ μὴ κεκοίμηταί τις μετὰ σοῦ, εἰ μὴ παραβέβηκας μιανθῆναι ὑπὸ τὸν ἄνδρα τὸν σεαυτῆς, ἀθώα ἴσθι ἀπὸ τοῦ ὕδατος τοῦ ἐλεγμοῦ τοῦ ἐπικαταρωμένου τούτου. Εἰ δὲ σὺ παραβέβηκας ὕπανδρος οὖσα, εἰ μεμίανσαι, καὶ ἔδωκέ τις τὴν κοίτην αὐτοῦ ἐν σοὶ, πλὴν τοῦ ἀνδρός σου· καὶ ὁρκιεῖ ὁ ἱερεὺς τὴν γυναῖκα ἐν τοῖς ὅρκοις τῆς ἀρᾶς ταύτης, καὶ ἐρεῖ ὁ ἱερεὺς τῇ γυναικί· Δῴη σε Κύριος ἐν ἀρᾷ καὶ ἐνόρκιον ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ λαοῦ σου, ἐν τῷ δοῦναι Κύριον τὸν μηρόν σου διαπεπτωκότα, καὶ τὴν κοιλίαν σου πεπρησμένην. Καὶ εἰσελεύσεται τὸ ὕδωρ τὸ ἐπικαταρώμενον τοῦτο εἰς τὴν κοιλίαν σου, πρῆσαι γαστέρα, καὶ διαπεσεῖν μηρόν σου. Καὶ ἐρεῖ ἡ γυνή· Γένοιτο, γένοιτο. Καὶ γράψει ὁ ἱερεὺς τὰς ἀρὰς ταύτας εἰς βιβλίον, καὶ ἐξαλείψει εἰς τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦ ἐλεγμοῦ τοῦ ἐπικαταρωμένου, καὶ ποτιεῖ τὴν γυναῖκα τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦ ἐλεγμοῦ τοῦ ἐπικαταρωμένου. Καὶ εἰσελεύσεται εἰς αὐτὴν τὸ ὕδωρ τὸ ἐπικαταρώμενον τοῦ ἐλεγμοῦ· καὶ λήψεται ὁ ἱερεὺς ἐκ χειρὸς τῆς γυναικὸς τὴν θυσίαν τῆς ζηλοτυπίας, καὶ ἐπιθήσει τὴν θυσίαν ἔναντι Κυρίου, καὶ προσοίσει αὐτὴν πρὸς τὸ θυσιαστήριον. Καὶ δράξεται ὁ ἱερεὺς ἀπὸ τῆς θυσίας τὸ μνημόσυνον αὐτῆς, καὶ ἀνοίσεται αὐτὸ ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα, ποτιεῖ τὴν γυναῖκα τὸ ὕδωρ. Καὶ ἔσται, ἐὰν ᾖ μεμιασμένη καὶ λήθῃ λάθῃ τὸν ἄνδρα αὐτῆς, καὶ εἰσελεύσεται εἰς αὐτὴν τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦ ἐλεγμοῦ τὸ ἐπικαταρώμενον, καὶ πρησθήσεται τὴν κοιλίαν, καὶ διαπεσεῖται ὁ μηρὸς αὐτῆς, καὶ ἔσται ἡ γυνὴ εἰς ἀρὰν τῷ λαῷ αὐτῆς. Ἐὰν δὲ μὴ μιανθῇ

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Cyril continues the dialogue with Palladius. Book 14 of a seventeen-book dialogue — not the whole work.

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