Second-month Jews after Christ-murder; fullness of nations; far-way idolaters
Cyril: Those who keep the feast in the second month, slaughtering the victim as a type of Christ according to the Passover law, we shall take to be none other than the Jews polluted by the blood-guilt against Christ, carrying uncleanness written upon them for their outrage against Emmanuel. (Num 9:11; Acts 2:23)
Such people necessarily slipped away from our holy feast. They also come late and miss the season in which the pioneer of everyone’s life was perfected through sufferings.
Yet by the mercy of him who wills to save all, in the times afterward — as in a second month — they too will share in Christ and keep festival with the saints called in due season, clearly those from the nations. (1 Tim 2:4; Rom 11:25-26) For see how those in Egypt, once held by the error of idolatry, when far from the holy city, were called later; so also Israel’s fullness waits on the entrance of the nations.
Greek
τῷ δευτέρῳ τελοῦντας τὴν ἑορτὴν, σφάζοντάς τε τὸ ἱερεῖον, εἰς τύπον Χριστοῦ, κατὰ τὸν τοῦ Πάσχα νόμον, οὐχ ἑτέρους εἶναι νομιοῦμεν, ἢ ὅτι τοὺς Ἰουδαίους ἐπὶ τῇ κατὰ Χριστοῦ μιαιφονίᾳ μεμολυσμένους, καὶ γραφὴν ἔχοντας εἰς ἀκαθαρσίαν, τὸ ἐμπαροινῆσαι εἰς τὸν Ἐμμανουήλ. Οἱ γάρ τοι τοιοίδε τῆς ἁγίας ἡμῶν ἑορτῆς ἀπώλισθον ἀναγκαίως. Ὑστερίζουσι δὲ καὶ διημαρτήκασι τοῦ καιροῦ καθ' ὃν ὁ τῆς ἁπάντων ζωῆς ἀρχηγὸς τετελείωται διὰ παθημάτων· ἐλέου γε μὴν τοῦ πάντας σώζειν ἐθέλοντος, ἐν τοῖς μετὰ τοῦτο καιροῖς, ὡς ἐν μηνὶ δευτέρῳ μεθέξουσι καὶ αὐτοὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, καὶ συνεορτάσουσι τοῖς ἁγίοις, τοῖς ἐν καιρῷ κεκλημένοις, δῆλον δὲ ὅτι τοῖς ἐξ ἐθνῶν· ἄθρει γὰρ ὅπως οἱ μὲν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ τὸν τῆς εἰδωλολατρείας εὐθὺς ἀποτριψάμενοι ῥύπον, σφάζουσι τὸν ἀμνὸν ἐν πρώτῳ μηνὶ, καὶ εἰς τὰς τοῦ πιστεύειν ἀρχὰς ἀναθρώσκουσιν. Οἱ δὲ κεχρισμένοι τῷ αἵματι τοῦ Κυρίου, παρ' οὐδὲν ἡγήσονται τὸν ὀλοθρευτὴν, καὶ ἀμείνους ἔσονται τῆς φθορᾶς. Οἱ δὲ, ὡς ἐν ἔτει τε καὶ ἐν μηνὶ δευτέρῳ, προσίασι μόλις καὶ ὁμολογοῦσι τὸν μολυσμόν. Καὶ ὅτι γεγόνασιν ἀκάθαρτοι ἐπὶ ψυχῇ ἀνθρώπου, διεβεβαιοῦντο σαφῶς, καὶ τῆς εὐλογίας ἀξιοῦσι τυχεῖν, ὕστερον δὲ καὶ μετὰ τοὺς πρώτους, πληροῦσι τὴν ἑορτήν· «Ὅταν γὰρ τὸ πλήρωμα τῶν ἐθνῶν εἰσέλθῃ, φησὶ, τότε πᾶς Ἰσραὴλ σωθήσεται.» Προαναπεφώνηκε δέ που καὶ ὁ προφήτης περὶ αὐτῶν· «Καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα ἐπιστρέψουσιν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ, καὶ ἐπιζητήσουσι Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν αὐτῶν, καὶ Δαβὶδ τὸν βασιλέα αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐκστήσονται ἐπὶ τῷ Κυρίῳ, καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς αὐτοῦ ἐπ' ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν.» Ἐπιζητηθήσεται γὰρ ἐν ἐσχάτοις καιροῖς παρὰ τῶν ὑπολελειμμένων ἐξ Ἰσραὴλ, ὁ ἐκ σπέρματος Δαβὶδ, κατὰ σάρκα Χριστός.
{ΠΑΛΛ.} Ἀληθὴς ὁ λόγος· τέθειται γὰρ ἐν ἐλπίσιν ὁ Ἰσραήλ.
{ΚΥΡ.} Ὅτι δὲ οὐκ ἀπλημμελὲς, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄγαν σφαλερωτάτων, τὸ μὴ πληροῦν ἑορτὰς ἐπὶ Χριστῷ, διεσάφησεν εὐθὺ, τὸν μήτε ἀκάθαρτον ἐπὶ ψυχῇ ἀνθρώπου, μήτε μὴν ἐν ὁδῷ μακρᾷ γεγονότα, καὶ ἀναγκαῖον οὐκ ἔχοντα παραπόδισμα, ποιναῖς ταῖς ἐσχάταις ὑπενεχθήσεσθαι λέγων, εἰ μὴ δρᾷν ἕλοιτο τὰ νενομισμένα. Νοηθείη δ' ἂν πρὸς ἡμῶν ἀκάθαρτος μὲν ὡς ἐπ' ἀνθρώπου ψυχῇ, καθάπερ ἐλέγομεν ἀρτίως, ὁ κυριοκτόνος Ἰουδαῖος. Ἐν ὁδῷ δὲ ὥσπερ μακρᾷ, καὶ ἔξω που τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἤτοι τῆς ἁγίας τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἐκκλησίας, «Ὁ τῷ ξύλῳ λέγων, Θεός μου εἶ σὺ, καὶ τῷ λίθῳ λέγων, Σὺ ἐγέννησάς με.» Καὶ μέντοι τῇ κτίσει παρὰ τὸν κτίσαντα προσκυνῶν, ἤγουν ὁ ἑτέραν τινὰ νοσήσας πλάνησιν· εἴπερ ἐστὶν ἀληθὲς, ὡς ἀγχοῦ μὲν ὑπάρχων νοοῖτο Θεοῦ πᾶς ἀνὴρ ἀγαθὸς, καὶ ἀκιβδήλευτον ἔχων ἐπ' αὐτῷ τὴν δόξαν· ἐξέστηκε δὲ καὶ ἀποφοιτᾷ καὶ ἔστι μακρὰν πᾶς εἴ τις οὐχ ὧδε ἔχει. Οὐκοῦν οἱ μήτε ἀκάθαρτοι ἐπὶ ψυχῆς ἀνθρώπου κατὰ τοὺς Ἰουδαίους, μήτε μὴν ὄντες ἐν ὁδῷ μακρᾷ, καθ' Ἕλληνας ἢ αἱρετικοὺς, σπουδαίως τε καὶ ἀμελλητὶ προσοίσομεν τὴν θυσίαν, καὶ τὰς ἑορτὰς Κυρίου τι
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Cyril continues the dialogue with Palladius. Book 17 of a seventeen-book dialogue — the final book of the series.
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