Oven=trial; crushed heart; peace-offering opens
Cyril: …for us of the holy ones to under-show. For an oven and a hearth, and indeed also the with a mill to be ground-fine, signals somewhere altogether would be of a crushing and of a toil of ones being tested as through fire. Therefore also they have cried, the thus well-famed walking-through path: ‘Because you tested us O God, you fired us, as is fired the silver.’ (Psalm 66:10) And somewhere also psalms the all-divine for us David: ‘A heart having been crushed-together and having been humbled God will not treat-as-nothing.’ (Psalm 51:17) But that for those thus having toiled, the in a sweet-fragrance to become of Christ, altogether and in every way would follow reasonably; and indeed that also the to be mercied needing, and with the of the Spirit grace richly to be fattened-down, clear would become for the of the frankincense and of oil thinking-around need. Or for not of fine riddles suspicions
Palladius: Very much so.
Cyril: Ourselves on the one hand then we will bring-forward to God, being deadened-down to the sin, and this sacred here intelligibly enduring death, living at least then to the righteousness, according to the having-been-written, (1 Peter 2:24) and as in a rank of thank-offerings the own for him life apportioning both well-famed and unrebukable, and with the unto God-loving boasts well-fitting. This indeed clearly also through other laws we will know. For it has been written in the Leviticus: ‘And if a sacrifice of salvation his gift to the Lord, if on the one hand from the oxen he should bring-forward it, whether a male, or a female, unblemished he will bring-forward it opposite Lord; and he will put the hands upon the head of the gift, and will slaughter it opposite Lord beside the doors of the tent of the witness. And will pour-on the sons of Aaron the priests the blood upon’ (Leviticus 3:1-2)
Greek
ἡμῖν τῶν ἁγίων ὑποδηλοῦν. Κλίβανος γὰρ καὶ ἐσχάρα, καὶ μὴν καὶ τὸ μύλῳ καταλεπτύνεσθαι, σημεῖά που πάντως εἶεν ἂν συντριβῆς τε καὶ πόνου δοκιμαζομένων ὡς διὰ πυρός. Τοιγάρτοι καὶ κεκράγασι, τὴν οὕτως εὐκλεᾶ διαστείχοντες τρίβον· «Ὅτι ἐδοκίμασας ἡμᾶς ὁ Θεὸς, ἐπύρωσας ἡμᾶς, ὡς πυροῦται τὸ ἀργύριον.» Ψάλλει δέ που καὶ ὁ θεσπέσιος ἡμῖν Δαβίδ· «Καρδίαν συντετριμμένην καὶ τεταπεινωμένην ὁ Θεὸς οὐκ ἐξουδενώσει.» Ἀλλ' ὅτι τοῖς ὧδε πεπονηκόσι, τὸ ἐν εὐωδίᾳ γενέσθαι Χριστοῦ, πάντη τε καὶ πάντως ἕποιτο ἂν εἰκότως· καὶ μὴν ὅτι καὶ τὸ ἐλεεῖσθαι δεῖν, καὶ τῇ τοῦ Πνεύματος χάριτι πλουσίως καταπιαίνεσθαι, σαφὲς ἂν γένοιτο τὴν τοῦ λιβάνου τε καὶ ἐλαίου περινοοῦντι χρείαν. Ἢ γὰρ οὐχὶ λεπτῶν αἰνιγμάτων ὑποψίαι πως ἡμῖν καὶ σκιαὶ τὰ ἐν νόμῳ;
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Πάνυ μὲν οὖν.
{ΚΥΡ.} Ἑαυτοὺς μὲν ἄρα προσοίσομεν τῷ Θεῷ, κατανεκρούμενοι τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, καὶ τὸν ἱερὸν τουτονὶ νοητῶς ὑπομένοντες θάνατον, ζῶντές γε μὴν τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ, κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον, καὶ ὡς ἐν τάξει χαριστηρίων τὴν ἰδίαν αὐτῷ ζωὴν ἀπονέμοντες εὐκλεᾶ τε καὶ ἀνεπίπληκτον, καὶ τοῖς εἰς φιλοθεΐαν αὐχήμασιν εὐπρεπῆ. Τοῦτό τοι σαφῶς καὶ δι' ἑτέρων εἰσόμεθα νόμων. Γέγραπται γὰρ ἐν τῷ Λευϊτικῷ· «Ἐὰν δὲ θυσία σωτηρίου τὸ δῶρον αὐτοῦ τῷ Κυρίῳ, ἐὰν μὲν ἐκ τῶν βοῶν αὐτὸ προσαγάγῃ, ἐάν τε ἄρσεν, ἐάν τε θῆλυ, ἄμωμον προσάξει αὐτὸ ἔναντι Κυρίου· καὶ ἐπιθήσει τὰς χεῖρας ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν τοῦ δώρου, καὶ σφάξει αὐτὸ ἐναντίον Κυρίου παρὰ τὰς θύρας τῆς σκηνῆς τοῦ μαρτυρίου. Καὶ προσχεοῦσιν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἀαρὼν οἱ ἱερεῖς τὸ αἷμα ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον τῶν ὁλοκαυτωμάτων κύκλῳ. Καὶ προσάξουσιν ἀπὸ τῆς θυσίας τοῦ σωτηρίου κάρπωμα Κυρίῳ, τὸ στέαρ τὸ κατακαλύπτον τὴν κοιλίαν, καὶ πᾶν τὸ στέαρ τὸ ἐπὶ τῆς κοιλίας· καὶ τοὺς δύο νεφροὺς, καὶ τὸ στέαρ τὸ ἐπ' αὐτῶν, τὸ ἐπὶ τῶν μηρίων, καὶ τὸν λοβὸν τὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ ἥπατος σὺν τοῖς νεφροῖς περιελεῖ· καὶ ἀνοίσουσιν αὐτὰ οἱ υἱοὶ Ἀαρὼν οἱ ἱερεῖς ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον ἐπὶ τὰ ὁλοκαυτώματα ἐπὶ τὰ ξύλα, τὰ ἐπὶ τοῦ πυρὸς ἐπὶ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου· κάρπωμα, ὀσμὴ εὐωδίας Κυρίῳ.» Ἄμωμος τοίνυν ὁ μόσχος· καθαροὺς γὰρ εἶναι πρέπει, καὶ μώμου παντὸς ἰόντας ὡς ἀπωτάτω, τοὺς εἰς ὀσμὴν εὐωδίας ἀναβαίνοντας τῷ Θεῷ. Ἐσφάζετο δὲ πρὸς αὐταῖς ταῖς θύραις τῆς ἁγίας σκηνῆς, ἐπενηνεγμένων αὐτῷ τῶν χειρῶν τοῦ προσάγοντος. Καὶ τίς ὁ τοῦδε λόγος, εἴρηται σαφῶς. Ἀνεκομίζετο δὲ εἰς θυσίαν τὸ στέαρ τὸ ἐπὶ τῆς κοιλίας, καὶ οἱ δύο νεφροὶ, συνεξαιρουμένης αὐτοῖς τῆς ἐνούσης πιμελῆς, καὶ ὁ λοβὸς τοῦ ἥπατος. Καὶ ὑποφήνειεν ἂν, καθάπερ ἐγᾦμαι, τὸ ἐπὶ τῆς κοιλίας στέαρ, τὴν οἱονεὶ φρενὸς εὐεξίαν, καὶ τὴν πιότητα τῶν σπλάγχνων ἐντεθραμμένων ἄριστα ταῖς διὰ τοῦ Πνεύματος νοηταῖς χορηγίαις. Εὐτροφία μὲν γὰρ τοῖς ἀλόγοις ζώοις, καὶ μὴν καὶ τοῖς ἀνθρωπίνοις σώμασι τὸ καταπιαίνεσθαι προξενεῖ. Θείων δὲ χαρισμάτων πλουσιωτάτη μέθεξις, παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ τὴν
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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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