Cyril of Alexandria: Fragments on Matthew · §279

Matthew 27:44

One of the robbers, sharing the Jews’ lovelessness toward God, belched out the same words as they: “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us.” But the other, walking the opposite road, is fittingly marvelled at. He has believed in him though hung in so bitter a punishment; he rebukes the Jews’ loose-mouthedness and the co-hung man’s voices; he confessed the sin so that he might appear more just. For he bore witness that Christ was wholly without blame and was an accuser of the crucifiers’ madness; and so he seized the lot of the holy — the enrollment above and in the heavens. Seeing him crucified, he was calling him king; he expected the one in dishonor and suffering to come in God-befitting glory; he seized the faith though not raised in nobility — and he also benefits us, <opening the> heavens <to us>.

Greek

Ἐν τῷ καιρῷ τῆς συντελείας ἀφαιρεῖται τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον· οὐ γὰρ οἷόν τε σὺν τῷ πνεύματι δοθῆναί τινα εἰς κόλασιν.

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