Clean/unclean beasts type manners; chew cud and split hoof

Cyril: …a under-forming of human customs, having brought-beside both many animals of the irrational ones, and indeed also kinds of winged and water-ones, benefits us according to countless manners. And do not wonder at all, where also to plants themselves sometimes he likens, from each one’s natural quality signaling urbanely the upon each of the according to us. For somewhere God said through Isaiah’s voice, under-showing the sweet-fragrances of those having bloomed-up unto life unto Christ through faith, clear that the spiritual, and indeed also heights the unto virtue: ‘And I will make in the desert living water, and in waterless land rivers, and I will set unto the waterless land, cedar, and box, and myrtle, and cypress, and white-poplar.’ (Isaiah 41:18–19) And again: ‘And it will be,’ (Leviticus 11:1–8) he says, ‘instead of the brushwood, a cypress will go up; and instead of fleabane, a myrtle will go up;’ (Isaiah 55:13) brushwood, I think somehow, and fleabane, naming well-naturedly the still untamed souls, and appearing in a form of the wild thorn beside at least the eyes of the divinity. But also to stones sometimes the reverend band of the holy ones is likened; ‘For holy stones are rolled upon the earth.’ (Zechariah 9:16) And indeed also the kingdom of the heavens the Savior was saying to have resembled leaven and a grain of mustard. So then from many and most vivid examples the God-breathed Writing is accustomed to make-clear the human things.

Palladius: I agree.

Cyril: So then observe that having brought-beside usefully countless as many kinds of cattle, and indeed the of winged and the swimming, some, as unclean it defiles altogether, and others again it both accepts and frees of slander, in order that those serving God may know rightly, doing which things, they would not be received-in; and from which having held-off thoughtfully, they will be far of blame, and would be bright and acceptable, and having been honored with the vote from above. And the law upon this holds for us thus: ‘And Lord spoke toward Moses and Aaron, saying: Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: These the cattle which you will eat from all the cattle the upon the earth, every cattle splitting a hoof, and clawing clawers of two hoofs, and bringing-up rumination in the cattle, these you will eat; yet from these you will not eat, from those bringing-up rumination, and from those splitting the hoofs, and clawing clawers; the camel, because it brings-up rumination, and a hoof it does not split, unclean this for you, and the rough-foot, because it brings-up rumination and a hoof it does not split, unclean this for you, and the porcupine, because it brings-up rumination, and a hoof it does not split, unclean this for you, and the swine, because it splits a hoof, this also claws nails of a hoof, and this does not bring-up rumination, unclean this for you. From their fleshes you will not eat, and of their carcasses you will not eat, unclean these for you.’ (Matthew 13:31–33) So then most vividly the Christ, ‘Not the going-into unto the mouth,’ (Matthew 15:11) he says, ‘commons the human.’ And it has been said somehow also toward the all-divine Peter, with the linen having been let-down from above by four beginnings, in which all have been written the’