Vow ages = soul strength; infant milk; Acts 15 minimum
Cyril: …as it were eagernesses unto this they dart-through, and with a swelling-through mind, and with a mind having been awakened-through, and with most-peak impulses they go toward a righting, of what things ever it should be needing to fulfill, and to complete to be able the for him seeming. And they would be these, according at least to the from the history being under-shown those from twenty-year-old and until sixty year; for it goes-up on the one hand until a sixtieth thereafter year, well-strong to be the body, and in the most-peak motions. And has stepped already and somehow is strong the mind, and very fittingly holds toward a reception, of what things ever he should choose to learn. And the one knowing our fashioning, according to the having-been-written, (Psalm 103:14) knew somewhere altogether some such also in souls an age. For from likenesses the word of the bodily creeps-through somewhere altogether upon the intelligible. Whether then male it should be somehow, or then female, of the intelligible age in peaks still lying, of ones bringing-forward the having-been-defined, that is, a male, as in didrachms fifty the freshly having, and that most most-perfect, of the spiritual service
Palladius: And very much.
Cyril: So then has been measured-with on the one hand with the spiritual well-strengths also the from each fruit. And behind everywhere the female of the male, and in a half often. For that the vessel weak, has witnessed clearly the all-divine Paul. (1 Peter 3:7) And she lacks of the of men good-nature, and is silent on the one hand in churches. (1 Corinthians 14:34) For she has not been trusted a word, and well-strong nowhere toward a righting of virtue, as would be seen a male. And from at least monthly, he says, and until five-year-old, five on the one hand didrachms the male; and three then again, the female. And yet what would become from infants the fruit? So then somehow newborn in Christ a child the word for us under-hints, for whom also the milk to be fitting unto nourishment the sacred said Paul. (1 Corinthians 3:2) For of those just having been called through the faith, and still infanting, short the fruit; and this knowing the all-divine disciples, for those from nations write-to, and of the most as much evangelical command having been given from Christ, to be guarded needing from both fornication and of strangled and of blood. (Acts 15:20) These
Greek
ὥσπερ προθυμίαις εἰς τοῦτο διᾴττουσιν, καὶ σφριγώσῃ διανοίᾳ, καὶ νῷ διεγηγερμένῳ, καὶ ἀκμαιοτάταις ὁρμαῖς ἴενται πρὸς κατόρθωσιν, ὧν ἂν δεήσῃ πληροῦν, καὶ ἀποπεραίνειν δύνασθαι τὸ αὐτῷ δοκοῦν. Εἶεν δ' ἂν οὗτοι, κατά γε τὸ ἐκ τῆς ἱστορίας ὑποδηλούμενον οἱ ἀπὸ εἰκοσαετοῦς καὶ ἕως ἑξήκοντα ἔτους· ἀνέρχεται μὲν γὰρ ἕως ἑξηκοστοῦ λοιπὸν ἔτους, εὐσθενὲς εἶναι τὸ σῶμα, καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἀκμαιοτάτοις κινήμασι. Βέβηκε δὲ ἤδη καὶ ἔῤῥωταί πως ὁ νοῦς, καὶ μάλα ἐπιτηδείως ἔχει πρὸς παραδοχὴν, ὧν ἂν ἕλοιτο μαθεῖν. Ὁ δὲ εἰδὼς τὸ πλάσμα ἡμῶν, κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον, ἔγνω που πάντως τοιάνδε τινὰ καὶ ἐν ψυχαῖς ἡλικίαν. Ἐξ ὁμοιώσεων γὰρ ὁ λόγος τῶν σωματικῶν διέρπει που πάντως ἐπὶ τὰ νοητά. Εἴτ' οὖν ἄρσεν εἴη τυχὸν, εἴτ' οὖν θήλεια, τῆς νοητῆς ἡλικίας ἐν ἀκμαῖς ἔτι κείμενοι, προσκομιζόντων τὰ ὡρισμένα, τουτέστιν, ἄρσην, ὡς ἐν διδράχμοις πεντήκοντα τὸν ἀρτίως ἔχοντα, καὶ ὅτι μάλιστα τελεώτατον, τῆς πνευματικῆς λατρείας καρπὸν, ὃς διὰ τῶν ἑπτάκις ἑπτὰ, πρὸς λῆξιν ἤδη τὴν ἀνωτάτω, καὶ εἰς τελειότητα μεμαρτυρημένος ὁρᾶται σαφῶς. Ἡ δέ γε θήλεια πάλιν, ὡς ἐν διδράχμοις τριάκοντα· μεῖον μὲν γὰρ ἢ τὸ ἄρσεν εὐδοκιμεῖ, προσκομίζει δὴ οὖν ὅμως ὡς κατ' ἰδίαν φύσιν, τὸν ἐν τελειότητι καὶ πόνῳ καρπὸν, ὡς διὰ τριῶν δεκάδων ὑποδηλούμενον. Ὁ δὲ ἀπὸ πενταετοῦς, καὶ ἕως εἰκοσαετοῦς, εἰ μὲν ἄρσεν εἴη, διδράχμων εἴκοσι ποιεῖται κατάθεσιν. Εἰ δέ γε θήλεια, δέκα. Ἐκ πέντε γὰρ, οἶμαι, καὶ μόλις ἐτῶν, ἄρχεταί πως ὁ νοῦς ἀναμύειν ὥσπερ εἰς σύνεσιν, νηπιοπρεπῆ μὲν ἔτι καὶ ἀσθενῆ, πλὴν ἰοῦσαν ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ ἄμεινον, ἐπίδοσιν δὲ τὴν εἰς τὸ ἀείπως εὐσθενὲς τὸ σῶμα ποιεῖται Ἢ οὐ συνιεῖς ὃ λέγω;
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Καὶ μάλα.
{ΚΥΡ.} Συμμεμέτρηται μὲν οὖν ταῖς πνευματικαῖς εὐρωστίαις καὶ ὁ παρ' ἑκάστου καρπός. Κατόπιν δὲ πανταχοῦ τὸ θῆλυ τοῦ ἄρσενος, καὶ ἐν ἡμίσει πολλάκις. Ὅτι γὰρ τὸ σκεῦος ἀσθενὲς, μεμαρτύρηκε σαφῶς ὁ θεσπέσιος Παῦλος. Λείπεται δὲ τῆς ἀνδρῶν εὐφυΐας, καὶ σιωπᾷ μὲν ἐν ἐκκλησίαις. Οὐ γὰρ πεπίστευται λόγον, εὐσθενὲς δὲ οὔτι που πρὸς κατόρθωσιν ἀρετῆς, ὡς ἂν ὁρῷτο ἄρσεν. Ἀπὸ δέ γε μηνιαίου, φησὶ, καὶ ἕως πενταετοῦς, πέντε μὲν δίδραχμα τὸ ἄρσεν· τρία δὲ αὖ, τὸ θῆλυ. Καί τοι τίς γένοιτο παρὰ βρεφῶν ὁ καρπός; Οὐκοῦν πως ἀρτιγενὲς ἐν Χριστῷ παιδίον ὁ λόγος ἡμῖν ὑπαινίττεται, οἷς καὶ τὸ γάλα πρέπειν εἰς τροφὴν ὁ ἱερὸς ἔφη Παῦλος. Τῶν γὰρ ἄρτι κεκλημένων διὰ τῆς πίστεως, καὶ νηπιαζόντων ἔτι, βραχὺς ὁ καρπός· καὶ τοῦτο εἰδότες οἱ θεσπέσιοι μαθηταὶ, τοῖς ἐξ ἐθνῶν ἐπιστέλλουσι, καὶ τῆς πλείστης ὅσης εὐαγγελικῆς ἐντολῆς δοθείσης παρὰ Χριστοῦ, φυλάττεσθαι δεῖν ἀπό τε πορνείας καὶ πνικτοῦ καὶ αἵματος. Ταῦτα δὲ δρῶντας εὐπράξειν ἔφασκον. Οὐ γάρ τοι τοῖς ἄγαν φορτικοῖς καταβαρύνεσθαι χρὴ τὸν τρυφερὸν ἔτι καὶ νηπιάζοντα νοῦν. Προσετίθη δὲ ὁ νόμος, ἐξαιτεῖσθαι δεῖν τοὺς ἀπὸ ἑξακονταετοῦς καὶ ἐπάνω, ἄρσενα μὲν, δέκα καὶ πέντε δίδραχμα, θήλειαν δὲ, δέκα. Τὸ γὰρ ἤδη νενευ
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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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