Cleanse in Christ water/blood; seven days = whole life; seed bed
Cyril: …yet in Christ, through water and blood. (1 John 5:6) For he will number for himself, he says, seven days unto his cleansing, and will wash his garments, and will bathe his body with water, and clean he will be. (Leviticus 15:13) And the on the one hand unto a seventh day to be stretched the cleansing, signals somewhere altogether, the through all of the life, and in every of the of the living time to be wiped needing with the fairnesses those from badness of world having chosen to transfer upon the to do to choose the more-fitting. Therefore of the week a measure of time has a fulfillment and a cycling-up unto the from beginning, as unto an end already arriving of the season. And to approach needing and necessarily to be brought-on with the from us fairnesses well
Palladius: You spoke well.
Cyril: Thus on the one hand then the gonorrheic to be thoroughly-cleansed needing, the divine for us has oracled law. And he defiles-down him, for whom if there should become also an unwilling flux, or then a willing, and a spring having the inborn movement. And willing on the one hand, as in associations the toward a woman, I say, and according to law of the marriage; and unwilling then again, as in imaginings somehow perhaps nightly. For he said again thus: ‘And a human, for whom if there should go-out from him a bed of seed, also he will bathe all his body with water, and unclean he will be until evening. And a woman, with whom if a man should sleep with her a bed of seed, also they will bathe the bodies with water, and unclean they will be until evening.’ (Leviticus 15:16-18) For equal upon both the charges, and the
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πλὴν ἐν Χριστῷ, δι' ὕδατός τε καὶ αἵματος. Ἐξαριθμήσεται γὰρ ἑαυτῷ, φησὶν, ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας εἰς τὸν καθαρισμὸν αὐτοῦ, καὶ πλυνεῖ τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ, καὶ λούσεται τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ ὕδατι, καὶ καθαρὸς ἔσται. Καὶ τὸ μὲν εἰς ἑβδόμην ἡμέραν παρατείνεσθαι τὸν καθαρισμὸν, σημαίνει που πάντως, τὸ διὰ παντὸς τοῦ βίου, καὶ ἐν παντὶ τῷ τῆς ζωῆς χρόνῳ διασμήχεσθαι δεῖν ταῖς ἐπιεικείαις τοὺς ἐκ φαυλότητος κοσμικῆς μεταφοιτᾷν ἑλομένους ἐπὶ τὸ δρᾷν ἑλέσθαι τὰ πρεπωδέστερα. Τοιγάρτοι τῆς ἑβδομάδος μέτρον χρόνου πλήρωσιν ἔχει καὶ ἀνακύκλησιν εἰς τὸ ἀπ' ἀρχῆς, ὡς εἰς πέρας ἤδη καταίροντος τοῦ καιροῦ. Προσιέναι δὲ δεῖν καὶ ἀναγκαίως ἐπάγεσθαι ταῖς πρὸς ἡμῶν ἐπιεικείαις εὖ μάλα φησὶ, τὴν διὰ Χριστοῦ κάθαρσιν, καὶ τὸν δι' ὕδατος ἁγνισμὸν, ὡς ἐν ἀπονίψει σώματός τε καὶ ἱματίων νοουμένου λοιπὸν τοῦ ἁγίου βαπτίσματος, συνθέοντος δηλονότι καὶ τοῦ δι' αἵματος ἁγνισμοῦ. «Τῇ γὰρ ἡμέρᾳ, φησὶ, τῇ ὀγδόῃ, λήψεται ἑαυτῷ δύο τρυγόνας, ἢ δύο νεοσσοὺς περιστερῶν.» Κατασημήνειε δ' ἂν ἡ ἡμέρα πάλιν ὀγδόη τῆς μετὰ σαρκὸς οἰκονομίας ἡμῖν τὸν καιρὸν, ὅτε τὴν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ὑπέμεινε σφαγὴν ὁ Ἐμμανουὴλ, ἡ εὔγλωττος ἀληθῶς καὶ εὐηχεστάτη τρυγὼν, ἢ καὶ τῷ αἵματι τῷ ἰδίῳ τετελείωκεν εἰς τὸ διηνεκὲς τοὺς ἁγιαζομένους. Ὅτι δὲ τὸ εὐῶδες ἅπαν ὁ Χριστοῦ θάνατος ἔχει (πέπρακται γὰρ ὑπὲρ τῆς τοῦ κόσμου ζωῆς, καὶ εἰς ἀναίρεσιν ἁμαρτίας), ἐμφήνειεν ἂν τὸ δύο μὲν εἶναι τὰς τρυγόνας, καταθύεσθαι δὲ μίαν μὲν ὑπὲρ ἁμαρτίας, εἰς ὁλοκαύτωμα δὲ τὴν ἑτέραν· ὅτι δὲ καὶ ἱλασμὸς ὑπὲρ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν γέγονεν ὁ Χριστὸς, κατὰ τὰς Γραφὰς, παρέδειξεν εἰπών· «Καὶ ἐξιλάσεται περὶ αὐτοῦ ὁ ἱερεὺς ἔναντι Κυρίου ἀπὸ τῆς ῥύσεως αὐτοῦ.»
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Εὖ ἔφης.
{ΚΥΡ.} Ὧδε μὲν οὖν τὸν γονοῤῥυῆ διακαθαίρεσθαι δεῖν, ὁ θεῖος ἡμῖν κατεχρησμῴδησε νόμος. Καταμιαίνει δὲ αὐτὸν, ᾧπερ ἂν γένοιτο καὶ ἀνεθέλητος ῥύσις, ἤγουν θελητὴ, καὶ πηγὴν ἔχουσα τὴν ἔμφυτον κίνησιν. Καὶ θελητὴ μὲν, ὡς ἐν ὁμιλίαις ταῖς πρὸς γυναῖκα, φημὶ, καὶ κατὰ νόμον τοῦ γάμου· ἀνεθέλητος δὲ αὖ, ὡς ἐν φαντασίαις τάχα που νυκτεριναῖς. Ἔφη γὰρ πάλιν ὡδί· «Καὶ ἄνθρωπος, ᾧ ἂν ἐξέλθῃ ἐξ αὐτοῦ κοίτη σπέρματος, καὶ λούσεται πᾶν τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ ὕδατι, καὶ ἀκάθαρτος ἔσται ἕως ἑσπέρας. Καὶ γυνὴ, ᾗ ἐὰν κοιμηθῇ ἀνὴρ μετ' αὐτῆς κοίτην σπέρματος, καὶ λούσονται τὰ σώματα ὕδατι, καὶ ἀκάθαρτοι ἔσονται ἕως ἑσπέρας.» Ἴσα γὰρ ἐπ' ἀμφοῖν τὰ ἐγκλήματα, καὶ τὸ παραλλάττον οὐδέν. Ἐν μὲν οὖν τῇ γονοῤῥοίᾳ, τὸ οἱονεὶ μακρόν πως ἡμῖν καὶ διηνεκὲς ἐγράφετο πάθος· ἐν δὲ τῷ προκειμένῳ, καταδηλοῦν ἔοικεν ὁ τοῦ νόμου σκοπὸς, ὡς ἔσται μεμολυσμένος καὶ εἰ μή τις τυχὸν τὴν εἰσάπαν καὶ ὁλόκληρον ἀῤῥωστοίη καταφθορὰν, ὁρῷτο δὲ πεπονθὼς, κἂν γοῦν ἐκ μέρους καὶ σπανιάκις. Τοιοῦτόν τι καὶ ὁ τοῦ Σωτῆρος ὑπέφηνε μαθητής· «Ὅταν γὰρ, φησὶν, ὅλον τὸν νόμον τελέσῃ τις, πταίσῃ δὲ ἐν ἑνὶ, γέγονε πάντων ἔνοχος. Ὁ γὰρ εἰπὼν, Μὴ μοιχεύσῃς, εἶπε καὶ, Μὴ φονεύσῃς. Εἰ δὲ οὐ μοιχεύσεις, φονεύσεις
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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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