The eighth day: circumcision by the Spirit and new birth in Christ
Cyril: …death from Adam until Moses (Romans 5:14), and sin in its many forms held sway over those on the earth. But since on the eighth day (Leviticus 12:3), that is, after the time of the law and that ancient Sabbath rest, we have been circumcised through the Spirit with a circumcision not made by hands (Colossians 2:11), and have been formed into Christ, having become sharers in his divine nature (2 Peter 1:4), then we have shaken off the charges against us; the filth too has been wiped away, and all our defilement is gone. For we are no longer born into corruption because of the transgression in Adam, but into life and incorruption because of the justification in Christ (Romans 5:18), who endured slaughter on our behalf as a spotless and true lamb (1 Peter 1:19), as a divine turtledove discerned by the mind (Leviticus 12:6). For in no other way have we been saved. Or is that not so?
Palladius: Entirely so, for the riddle is very clear.
Greek
ὁ θάνατος ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ καὶ μέχρι Μωσέως, κατεκράτησε δὲ τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἡ πολύμορφος ἁμαρτία. Ἐπειδὴ δὲ κατὰ τὴν ὀγδόην, τουτέστι, μετὰ τὸν τοῦ νόμου καιρὸν καὶ τὸν ἀρχαῖον ἐκεῖνον Σαββατισμὸν, ἀχειροποιήτῳ περιτομῇ περιτετμήμεθα διὰ Πνεύματος, μεμορφώμεθα δὲ καὶ εἰς Χριστὸν, τῆς θείας αὐτοῦ φύσεως γενόμενοι κοινωνοί· διεκρουσάμεθα δὴ τὰ ἐγκλήματα, κατηφάνισται δὲ καὶ ὁ ῥύπος, καὶ ἅπας ἡμῶν οἴχεται μολυσμός· τικτόμεθα γὰρ οὐκ εἰς φθορὰν ἔτι, διὰ τὴν ἐν Ἀδὰμ παράβασιν, ἀλλ' εἰς ζωήν τε καὶ ἀφθαρσίαν, διὰ τὴν ἐν Χριστῷ δικαίωσιν, τὴν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ὑπομείναντος σφαγὴν, ὡς ἀμνοῦ ἀμώμου καὶ ἀληθινοῦ, ὡς τρυγόνος θείας καὶ νοητῆς· σεσώσμεθα γὰρ οὐχ ἑτέρως. Ἦ γὰρ οὐχ ὧδε ἔχει;
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Παντάπασι μὲν οὖν· σαφὲς γὰρ λίαν τὸ αἴνιγμα.