Baldness clean; small passions; red scar in baldness = leprosy
Cyril: …of places a sending, and the such of the passions, and for them sometimes the ones having an unslanderable the life, and clean truly, to happen is custom. For human, and as it were somehow for all common, for those the in flesh and blood living-through life. So then the law under-writes also these again enigmatically, and thus at least says: ‘And if for someone should bald his head, bald he is, clean he is. And if according to face should bald his head, forehead-bald he is, clean he is.’ (Leviticus 13:40-41) The of hairs unwilling casting-away, of a head would be a passion, and of mind unto a type to have been named the head, just-now we were saying; for of mind a dwelling a head, according at least to what seems for some.
Palladius: I will remember.
Cyril: So then the of a head passions bodily, would show reasonably the unto mind weaknesses, and small then again, and the for which would follow to be released to be fitting. So then the law releases every of us of a human passion, and of defilements unwilling, which ever would for us happen-upon, since at least the strengthless to be sick is a necessity for the nature, and to have been released of passions altogether not of the present season, and would be fitting for an age the coming, according to which from foundations the sin will be shaken-down, and unto an unhurt entirely we will transfer life. ‘Yet if it should become,’ he says, ‘a scar of a signaling reddening in the baldness, or in the forehead-baldness, leprous he is, and polluted he will be.’ (Leviticus 13:42-44) For there runs-after sometimes also the small of the passions
Palladius: How deep the word.
Cyril: Very much so. For you under-sense me, just as I at least think, thin-speaking exceedingly, and without-sweat the such of the contemplations either to understand or to phrase not having. And that it is not possible for those the clear of the faultings unholily having been weak to be able to escape-notice, of the least sometimes being unknown, and having been hidden, also from here you will know thus. The ones on the one hand then a baldness having suffered, clean to be, he says, he will remind, well for us releasing the of the stumblings small, just as we were saying just-now. But if it should become for some in a baldness leprosy, that is, whenever from small unto the worse is borne the passion, then then, then clear and unseemly to become he says, and a word not having the for the charges to speak-with
Greek
ρίων ἔφεσις, καὶ τὰ τοιάδε τῶν παθῶν, καὶ αὐτοῖς ἔσθ' ὅτε τοῖς ἀδιάβλητον ἔχουσι τὴν ζωὴν, καὶ καθαροῖς ἀληθῶς, συμβαίνειν ἔθος. Ἀνθρώπινα γὰρ, καὶ οἱονείπως πᾶσι κοινὰ, τοῖς τὸν ἐν σαρκὶ καὶ αἵματι διαζῶσι βίον. Ὑπογράφει δὴ οὖν ὁ νόμος καὶ ταυτὶ πάλιν αἰνιγματωδῶς, οὕτω τέ φησιν· «Ἐὰν δέ τινι μαδίσῃ ἡ κεφαλὴ αὐτοῦ, φαλακρός ἐστι, καθαρός ἐστιν. Ἐὰν δὲ κατὰ πρόσωπον μαδίσῃ ἡ κεφαλὴ αὐτοῦ, ἀναφάλαντός ἐστι, καθαρός ἐστιν.» Ἡ τριχῶν ἀνεθέλητος ἀποβολὴ, κεφαλῆς ἂν εἴη πάθος, νοῦ δὲ εἰς τύπον ὠνομάσθαι τὴν κεφαλὴν, ἀρτίως ἐλέγομεν· νοῦ γὰρ ἐνδιαίτημα κεφαλὴ, κατά γε τό τισι δοκοῦν.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Μεμνήσομαι.
{ΚΥΡ.} Οὐκοῦν τὰ κεφαλῆς πάθη σωματικῆς, ἐμφαίνειν ἂν εἰκότως τὰ εἰς νοῦν ἀῤῥωστήματα, σμικρὰ δὲ δὴ πάλιν, καὶ τὰ οἷς ἂν ἕποιτο ἀνεῖσθαι πρέπειν. Ἀπαλλάττει δὴ οὖν ὁ νόμος παντὸς ἡμᾶς ἀνθρωπίνου πάθους, καὶ μολυσμῶν ἀνεθελήτων, οἵπερ ἂν ἡμῖν ἐπισυμβαίνοιεν, ἐπεί τοι τὸ ἄναλκι νοσεῖν ἀνάγκη τῇ φύσει, καὶ ἀπηλλάχθαι παθῶν εἰσάπαν οὐ τοῦ παρόντος καιροῦ, πρέποι δ' ἂν αἰῶνι τῷ μέλλοντι, καθ' ὃν ἐκ βάθρων ἡ ἁμαρτία κατασεισθήσεται, καὶ εἰς ἀλώβητον παντελῶς μεταχωρήσομεν βίον. «Πλὴν εἰ γένοιτο,» φησὶν, «οὐλὴ σημασίας πυῤῥίζουσα ἐν τῷ φαλακρώματι, ἢ ἐν τῷ ἀναφαλαντώματι, λεπρός ἐστι, καὶ μιαρὸς ἔσται.» Μετατρέχει γὰρ ἔσθ' ὅτε καὶ τὰ σμικρὰ τῶν παθῶν εἰς ἐγκλημάτων δύναμιν, καὶ καταμιαίνει δεινῶς μὴ ἀνακοπτόμενα πρὸς ἡμῶν, ἀνειμένην δὲ ὥσπερ καὶ ἀνεπίπληκτον παντελῶς τὴν εἴς γε τὰ χείρω λαχόντα πάροδον, οἷόν τί φημι· ὀργίζεταί τις ἔσθ' ὅτε μικρὰ, καὶ ἠῤῥώστηκεν ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ τὸ πάθος, ἀνακοπτέσθω ταῖς ἐπιεικείαις, ἵνα μὴ τοῦ μικροῦ παραπτώματος εἰς αὔξην ἰόντος, κατὰ βραχὺ γραφὴ πρὸς θάνατον τοῖς παθοῦσιν εὑρίσκηται. Τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ ἐν φαλακρώματι τυχὸν ἐξανθῆσαι λέπραν, τὴν ἐκ τοῦ μηδενὸς ἐπὶ τὰ χείρω ῥοπὴν, ὡς ἐν τύπῳ συμβαίνουσαν. Ὀρθῶς δὴ οὖν εἰρήσθω φημὶ τῷ μακαρίῳ Δαβὶδ τὸ, «Ὀργίζεσθε, καὶ μὴ ἁμαρτάνετε.»
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Ὡς βαθὺς ὁ λόγος.
{ΚΥΡ.} Πάνυ μὲν οὖν. Ὑπαισθάνῃ γάρ με, καθάπερ ἐγᾦμαι, λεπτοεποῦντα λίαν, καὶ ἀνιδρωτὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα τῶν θεωρημάτων ἢ νοεῖν ἢ φράζειν οὐκ ἔχοντα. Ὅτι δὲ οὐκ ἔνεστι τοὺς τὰ ἐκφανῆ τῶν πλημμελημάτων ἀνοσίως ἠῤῥωστηκότας δύνασθαι λαθεῖν, ἀγνοουμένων ἔσθ' ὅτε τῶν ἐλαχίστων, καὶ κεκρυμμένων, κἀντεῦθεν εἴσῃ τοι. Τοὺς μέν τοι φαλάκρωμα πεπονθότας, καθαροὺς εἶναι, φησὶν, ἀναμνήσει, καλῶς ἡμῖν ἀνιεὶς τὰ τῶν πταισμάτων μικρὰ, καθάπερ ἐλέγομεν ἀρτίως. Ἀλλ' εἰ γένοιτό τισιν ἐν φαλακρώματι λέπρα, τουτέστιν, ὅταν ἐκ μικρῶν ἐπὶ τὰ χείρω φέρηται τὸ πάθος, τότε δὴ, τότε καταφανῆ καὶ ἀσχήμονα γενέσθαι λέγει, καὶ λόγον οὐκ ἔχοντα τὸν τοῖς ἐγκλήμασι συνειπεῖν
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Cyril continues the dialogue with Palladius. Book 15 of a seventeen-book dialogue — not the whole work.
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