Cud without hoof / hoof without cud incomplete; heretic leftovers
Cyril: …rumination. For such the law says clean, according at least to the word just having become.
Palladius: I have understood what you say.
Cyril: So then the excellent and having completely toward virtue, he under-showed riddlingly, as at least in an animal, the one having been natural to split, and bringing-up rumination. And that beautiful and benefit-bearing to love to shake-off the one not having judgment thus, and as it were limping toward the good, and going behind of completeness the unto virtue, he enjoins again, neither for those bringing-up rumination, without having obtained the splitting, nor indeed for those having been natural to split, if they should not have rumination, having brought-on the best vote, and rather writing-down their unclean, and setting them numbered with those knowing to defile-down. So then of practical energy and quality of manners, the cloven of the foot, we affirm to be a type, thinking rightly, and reshaping the having-been-said riddlingly unto truth. And the rumination at least, we define to be a sign of word according to piety, and of dogmatic knowledge, both right and practiced. Or does it not hold thus?
Palladius: Very much so.
Cyril: So then incomplete toward virtue would reasonably be thought, and he has stood far of the needing to be wondered-at, the one boasting in good works, yet being worsted of the dogmatic rightness, and not having words of the truth unto mind. And true that also the reverse, not unclear; for dogmatic rightness, and the sweet care of the divine words, would benefit us nothing, unto at least the having completely unto a reputation of virtue, with the brightness in works not having been yoked-beside. For the one right upon both, will carry-away the vote of the being well-reputed completely. And the one lacking of the other, will have strengthless the being wondered-at in the beautiful. Some such also the Savior under-shows, saying, least in the kingdom of the heavens to have been called the one teaching on the one hand, yet not still also having done; and great again and distinguished, the one having practiced and having taught. So then unclean according to law, the one being worsted of one. And that it is fitting to depart from these, and according to no manner to be seen having shared, he was clarifying saying: ‘From the fleshes you will not eat, and of their carcasses you will not touch.’ (Matthew 5:19) For neither with living ones, he says, will you be turned-about-with. And if somehow one of such should have died, you will keep your own mind unprofane; not even so much as to say touching of the things having been made by those, clear that of words, and of polluted compositions; for such are leftovers of a human’s life. This at least the unlearned heretics are accustomed to do. For they have wandered admittedly, the ones having become teachers of the unlearning being in them; and leftovers as it were of their own impiety they have deposited-beside for their own disciples; and they, also very gladly both accept and house-in according to mind, and have a hard-to-wash-out defilement, touching as it were carcass fleshes, which are full of the last foul-smell and uncleanness (Leviticus 11:8).
Greek
τος μηρυκισμόν. Καθαρὰ γὰρ τὰ τοιάδε φησὶν ὁ νόμος, κατά γε τὸν ἀρτίως γεγονότα λόγον.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Συνῆκα ὃ φής.
{ΚΥΡ.} Τὸν μὲν οὖν ἄριστόν τε καὶ ἀρτίως ἔχοντα πρὸς ἀρετὴν, ὑπέδειξεν αἰνιγματωδῶς, ὡς ἔν γε δὴ ζώῳ, τῷ διχηλεῖν πεφυκότι, καὶ ἀνάγοντι μηρυκισμόν. Ὅτι δὲ καλὸν καὶ ὀνησιφόρον ἀποσείεσθαι φιλεῖν τὸν οὐχ ὧδε ἔχοντα γνώμης, καὶ οἱονεὶ χωλεύοντα πρὸς τὸ ἀγαθὸν, καὶ τελειότητος τῆς εἰς ἀρετὴν ἰόντα κατόπιν, παρεγγυᾷ πάλιν, οὔτε τοῖς ἀνάγουσι μηρυκισμὸν, δίχα τοῦ κεκτῆσθαι τὸ διχηλοῦν, οὔτε μὴν τοῖς διχηλεῖν πεφυκόσιν, εἰ μηρυκισμὸν οὐκ ἔχοιεν, τὴν ἀρίστην ψῆφον ἐπενεγκὼν, καταγράφων δὲ μᾶλλον αὐτῶν τὸ ἀκάθαρτον, καὶ τοῖς καταμιαίνειν εἰδόσι τιθεὶς ἐναρίθμια. Πρακτικῆς μὲν οὖν ἐνεργείας καὶ ποιότητος τρόπων, τὴν τοῦ ποδὸς διχηλίαν, τύπον εἶναι διαβεβαιούμεθα, φρονοῦντες ὀρθῶς, καὶ τὰ αἰνιγματωδῶς εἰρημένα μεταχαράττοντες εἰς ἀλήθειαν. Τὸν δέ γε μηρυκισμὸν, λόγου τε κατ' εὐσέβειαν, καὶ δογματικῆς ἐπιστήμης, ὀρθῆς τε καὶ ἐντριβοῦς σημεῖον εἶναι διοριζόμεθα. Ἢ οὐχ ὧδε ἔχει;
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Πάνυ μὲν οὖν;
{ΚΥΡ.} Ἀτελὴς οὖν ἄρα πρὸς ἀρετὴν νοοῖτ' ἂν εἰκότως, καὶ τοῦ χρῆναι θαυμάζεσθαι καθεστήκει μακρὰν, ὁ ἔργοις μὲν ἐπαυχῶν ἀγαθοῖς, ὀρθότητος δὲ τῆς δογματικῆς ἡττώμενος, καὶ λόγους οὐκ ἔχων τῆς ἀληθείας εἰς νοῦν. Ἀληθὲς δὲ ὅτι καὶ τὸ ἔμπαλιν, οὐκ ἀσυμφανές· δογματικὴ γὰρ ὀρθότης, καὶ λόγων τῶν θείων ἡ γλυκεῖα φροντὶς, ἡμᾶς ὀνήσειεν ἂν οὐδὲν, εἴς γε τὸ τελείως ἔχειν εἰς ἀρετῆς ὑπόληψιν, τῆς ἐν ἔργοις φαιδρότητος οὐ παρεζευγμένης. Ὁ γὰρ ἐπ' ἀμφοῖν δεξιὸς, τὴν τοῦ τελείως εὐδοκιμεῖν ἀποίσεται ψῆφον. Καὶ ὁ θατέρου λειπόμενος, ἀδρανὲς ἕξει τὸ ἐν τῷ καλῷ θαυμάζεσθαι. Τοιουτονί τι καὶ ὁ Σωτὴρ ὑποφαίνει, λέγων, ἐλάχιστον μὲν ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀποκεκλῆσθαι τὸν διδάσκοντα μὲν, οὐ μὴν ἔτι καὶ πεποιηκότα· μέγαν δὲ αὖ καὶ διαπρεπῆ, τὸν πράξαντα καὶ δεδιδαχότα. Ἀκάθαρτος οὖν κατὰ νόμον, ὁ ἑνὸς ἡττώμενος. Τούτων δὲ ὅτι προσῆκεν ἀποφοιτᾷν, καὶ κατ' οὐδένα τρόπον ὁρᾷσθαι μετεσχηκότας, διεσάφει λέγων· «Ἀπὸ τῶν κρεῶν οὐ φάγεσθε, καὶ τῶν θνησιμαίων αὐτῶν οὐχ ἅψεσθε.» Οὔτε γὰρ ζῶσι, φησὶ, μὴ συναναστραφήσεσθε. Κἂν εἰ τεθναίη τις τῶν τοιῶνδε τυχὸν, ἀβέβηλον τὸν οἰκεῖον τηρήσετε νοῦν· οὐδ' ὅσον εἰπεῖν ἀποθιγγάνοντες τῶν ἐκείνοις πεποιημένων, λογίων δὲ δηλονότι, καὶ μιαρῶν συγγραμμάτων· λείψανα γὰρ τὰ τοιάδε τῆς ἀνθρώπου ζωῆς. Τοῦτό τοι δρᾷν ἔθος τοῖς ἀπαιδεύτοις αἱρετικοῖς. Πεπλάνηνται μὲν γὰρ ὁμολογουμένως, οἱ τῆς ἐνούσης αὐτοῖς ἀμαθίας γεγονότες καθηγηταί· λείψανα δὲ ὥσπερ τῆς ἑαυτῶν δυσσεβείας τοῖς ἰδίοις παρακατέθεντο μαθηταῖς· οἱ δὲ, καὶ λίαν ἀσμένως προσίενταί τε καὶ εἰσοικίζονται κατὰ νοῦν, καὶ δυσαπόνιπτον ἔχουσι μολυσμὸν, θνησιμαίων ὥσπερ κρεῶν ἐπαφώμενοι, ἃ δυσωδίας ἐστὶ τῆς ἐσχάτης καὶ ἀκαθαρσίας ἔμπλεω.
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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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