Partial breach still charged; evening = end of age; Lev 12 birth opens
Cyril: …and, you have become a transgressor of law.’ (James 2:10-11) For for one having faulted once, or then that he has transgressed altogether, even if at least upon one and from a part, will follow somewhere altogether for him the to be charged needing. Polluted then therefore according to the law, even if not someone should go toward an extremity of defilement, and should be caught having suffered even if at least from a part it. Yet, not cast-away entirely, and he is cleansed also himself through water in Christ. Therefore of the sojourn a season, would under-show very well, the until evening unclean to be to say the having-been-defiled. For upon a completion, and only not also upon the very already arriving sunsets of this age, has arrived Christ, through whom and in whom every on the one hand filth we have been washed-out the from sin, we have been released
Palladius: I understand what you say, and true the word.
Cyril: And the law brings-on for these the about a woman, the flowing with blood, and with an unrestrained carrying-down the to be defiled needing being sick upon herself; and just as upon the gonorrheic every vessel was being defiled-down, and a bed every, and every garment, and every the one touching and near going; thus also upon her. And he releases also her according to the equal for that manner, with water thoroughly-washing, and of turtle-doves being sacrificed-down, and indeed also of a propitiation the mediating of a priest. And bringing-up as it were unto thoughts for us the spiritual the law, and with the of the flesh weaknesses to be fond-of-lingering not allowing (for it was taken-beside unto a type of the unto mind inside and intelligible), he brings-on clearly: ‘And cautious you will make the sons of Israel from’ (Leviticus 15:19-31)
Palladius: Most-excellently you spoke.
Cyril: That then the human nature has been weak-before with the defilement, and would be wiped not otherwise, yet that through Christ the according to truth sacred and holy victim, you will know then, and very clearly, also another upon this the law oracling investigating. For it has been written again in the Leviticus: ‘And Lord spoke toward Moses, saying: Speak to the sons of Israel, and you will say toward them: A woman if someone should be seeded, and should bear a male, unclean she will be seven days, according to the days of the separation of her menstruation, unclean she will be; and on the day the eighth’ (Leviticus 12:1-3)
Greek
δὲ, γέγονας παραβάτης νόμου.» Πεπλημμεληκότι γὰρ ἅπαξ, ἤγουν ὅτι παρανενόμηκεν ὅλως, κἂν γοῦν ἐφ' ἑνὶ καὶ ἐκ μέρους, ἕψεταί που πάντως αὐτῷ τὸ ἐγκαλεῖσθαι δεῖν. Μιαρὸς οὖν ἄρα κατὰ τὸν νόμον, κἂν εἰ μή τις ἴοι πρὸς ἔσχατον μολυσμοῦ, καταφωρῷτο δὲ πεπονθὼς κἂν γοῦν ἐκ μέρους αὐτόν. Πλὴν, οὐκ ἀπόβλητος παντελῶς, καθαίρεται δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς δι' ὕδατος ἐν Χριστῷ. Τοιγάρτοι τῆς ἐπιδημίας καιρὸν, ὑπεμφήνειεν ἂν εὖ μάλα, τὸ μέχρις ἑσπέρας ἀκάθαρτον εἶναι λέγειν τὸν μεμολυσμένον. Ἐπὶ συντελείᾳ γὰρ, μόνον δὲ οὐχὶ καὶ ἐπ' αὐταῖς ἥκοντος ἤδη δυσμαῖς τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου, παραγέγονεν ὁ Χριστὸς, δι' οὗ καὶ ἐν ᾧ πάντα μὲν ῥύπον ἐκνενίμμεθα τὸν ἐξ ἁμαρτίας, ἀπηλλάγμεθα δὲ μικρῶν καὶ μεγάλων αἰτιαμάτων οἱ ταῖς πλημμελείαις ἐνισχημένοι. Ὅτι δὲ πρὸ τῶν τῆς ἐπιδημίας καιρῶν οὐκ ἦν ἀπονίψασθαι μολυσμὸν (ἐδικαιοῦτο γὰρ οὐδεὶς ἐν νόμῳ, κατὰ τὰς Γραφὰς), ἀναμάθοις ἂν διὰ τοῦ φάναι σαφῶς, ὅτι «Ἀκάθαρτος ἔσται ἕως ἑσπέρας.»
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Συνίημι ὃ φὴς, καὶ ἀληθὴς ὁ λόγος.
{ΚΥΡ.} Προσεπάγει δὲ τούτοις ὁ νόμος τὰ περὶ γυναικὸς, τῆς ῥεούσης αἵματι, καὶ ἀσχέτῳ καταφορᾷ τὸ καταμιαίνεσθαι δεῖν νοσούσης ἐφ' ἑαυτῇ· καὶ ὥσπερ ἐπὶ τοῦ γονοῤῥυοῦς πᾶν σκεῦος κατεμολύνετο, καὶ κοίτη πᾶσα, καὶ πᾶν ἱμάτιον, καὶ πᾶς ὁ ἁπτόμενος ἀγχοῦ τε ἰών· οὕτω καὶ ἐπ' αὐτῆς. Ἀπαλλάττει δὲ καὶ αὐτὴν κατὰ τὸν ἴσον ἐκείνῳ τρόπον, ὕδατι διανίζων, καὶ τρυγόνων καταθυομένων, καὶ μέντοι καὶ ἱλασμοῦ τοῦ μεσιτεύοντος ἱερέως. Ἀνακομίζων δὲ ὥσπερ εἰς ἐννοίας ἡμᾶς τὰς πνευματικὰς ὁ νόμος, καὶ τοῖς τῆς σαρκὸς ἀῤῥωστήμασιν ἐμφιλοχωρεῖν οὐκ ἐῶν (παρελήφθη γὰρ εἰς τύπον τῶν εἰς νοῦν ἔσω καὶ νοητῶν), ἐπάγει σαφῶς· «Καὶ εὐλαβεῖς ποιήσετε τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραὴλ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀκαθαρσιῶν αὐτῶν, καὶ οὐκ ἀποθανοῦνται διὰ τὴν ἀκαθαρσίαν αὐτῶν, ἐν τῷ μιαίνειν αὐτοὺς τὴν σκηνήν μου τὴν ἐν αὐτοῖς·» κεκαθαρμένοι γὰρ δὴ καὶ ἡγιασμένοι διὰ Χριστοῦ, τότε δὴ, τότε λαμπροὶ προσίεμεν ἀληθῶς, καὶ οὐ μιανοῦμεν ἔτι τὴν ἁγίαν σκηνήν· προσκυνήσομεν δὲ καθαροὶ καθαρῶς τῷ παναγίῳ Θεῶ φοιτῶντες ἐν ἐκκλησίαις.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Ἄριστα ἔφης.
{ΚΥΡ.} Ὅτι τοι προκατηῤῥώστησε μὲν ἡ ἀνθρώπου φύσις τὸν μολυσμὸν, διασμήχοιτο δ' ἂν οὐχ ἑτέρως, πλὴν ὅτι διὰ Χριστοῦ τοῦ κατ' ἀλήθειαν ἱεροῦ καὶ ἁγίου θύματος, εἴσῃ τοι, καὶ μάλα σαφῶς, καὶ ἕτερον ἐπὶ τῷδε τῷ νόμῳ χρησμῴδημα πολυπραγμονῶν. Γέγραπται γὰρ πάλιν ἐν τῷ Λευϊτικῷ· «Καὶ ἐλάλησε Κύριος πρὸς Μωσῆν, λέγων· Λάλησον τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἰσραὴλ, καὶ ἐρεῖς πρὸς αὐτούς· Γυνὴ ἐάν τις σπερματισθῇ, καὶ τέκῃ ἄρσεν, ἀκάθαρτος ἔσται ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας, κατὰ τὰς ἡμέρας τοῦ χωρισμοῦ τῆς ἀφέδρου αὐτῆς, ἀκάθαρτος ἔσται· καὶ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ὀγδόῃ
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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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