Book 16 opens: spiritual sacrifices; Malachi temple fire
ON THE WORSHIP AND SERVICE IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH — BOOK SIXTEENTH. That it is necessary for us to bring-forward spiritual sacrifices and gift-bearings to God. Sufficient on the one hand then, just as I at least think, the having-been-said toward the needing to go nobly unto a rubbing-off of sin, and unto a cleansing-away the through Christ, every on the one hand filth the in us to wipe being able, and with the of the Spirit working melting-together, and washed-out and holy to show knowing. Therefore also sacred for us the word such, the of the Spirit working unto us about-to-be has cried-up-before saying: ‘That suddenly will come unto his temple Lord, whom you seek, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire. Behold he comes, says Lord Almighty, and who will endure a day of his entrance? And who will stand-under in his appearing? Because he enters as fire of a furnace, and as soap of ones washing. And he will sit melting and cleansing as the silver and as the gold.’ (Malachi 3:1-3) And
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ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΕΝ ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΗΣΕΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΤΡΕΙΑΣ ΛΟΓΟΣ ΕΚΚΑΙΔΕΚΑΤΟΣ. Ὅτι χρὴ προσάγειν ἡμᾶς θυσίας πνευματικὰς καὶ δωροφορίας Θεῷ. Ἀπόχρη μὲν οὖν, καθάπερ ἐγᾦμαι, τὰ εἰρημένα πρὸς τὸ δεῖν ἰέναι γεννικῶς εἰς ἀπότριψιν ἁμαρτίας, καὶ εἰς ἀποκάθαρσιν τὴν διὰ Χριστοῦ, πάντα μὲν ῥύπον τὸν ἐν ἡμῖν διασμήχειν οἵου τε, καὶ τῇ τοῦ Πνεύματος ἐνεργείᾳ συντήκοντος, ἐκνενιμμένους δὲ καὶ ἁγίους ἀποφαίνειν εἰδότος. Τοιγάρτοι καὶ ἱερὸς ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος τοιοῦτος, τὴν τοῦ Πνεύματος ἐνέργειαν εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐσομένην προανακεκράγει λέγων· «Ὅτι ἐξαίφνης ἥξει εἰς τὸν ναὸν αὐτοῦ Κύριος, ὃν ὑμεῖς ζητεῖτε, καὶ ὁ ἄγγελος τῆς διαθήκης, ὃν ὑμεῖς θέλετε. Ἰδοὺ ἔρχεται, λέγει Κύριος παντοκράτωρ, καὶ τίς ὑπομενεῖ ἡμέραν εἰσόδου αὐτοῦ; ἢ τίς ὑποστήσεται ἐν τῇ ὀπτασίᾳ αὐτοῦ; ὅτι αὐτὸς εἰσπορεύεται, ὡς πῦρ χωνευτηρίου, καὶ ὡς πόα πλυνόντων, καὶ καθιεῖται χωνεύων καὶ καθαρίζων, ὡς τὸ ἀργύριον καὶ τὸ χρυσίον.» Συνᾴδει δὲ τούτοις καὶ ὁ θεσπέσιος
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Cyril continues the dialogue with Palladius. Book 16 of a seventeen-book dialogue — not the whole work.
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