Spirit received humanly; baptism given divinely; Word owns flesh
Calling him a man, and coming after, he says he was before, as God. For in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. “And John witnessed, saying: I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove from heaven and remaining on him… this is the one who baptizes in the Holy Spirit; and I have seen and have witnessed that this is the Son of God.” See clearly and vividly in these that our Lord Jesus Christ receives the Spirit humanly, because of the economy with flesh—for being rich he became poor for us—yet baptizes divinely in the Holy Spirit. For to whom would it befit to be able to supply the Spirit’s grace, except to the one who is by nature and truly God? So there is one Christ and Son.
“If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? And no one has gone up into heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man.” How has the Son of Man come down from heaven? Because the Word from God became human, and what belongs to the flesh is the Word’s own, apart from sin alone.
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About this text
Cyril’s court treatise on right faith for Arcadia and Marina (CPG 5219). One Son, Word made flesh — not two Christs. English from Pusey’s Greek.
English follows Pusey’s 1877 Greek of De recta fide ad Arcadiam et Marinam. OCR of that print was cleaned section by section before Pass A/B. This is a reading translation for study, not a new critical edition.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Pusey, De recta fide ad reginas (Oxford, 1877) (Greek · CPG 5219 §§1–100)
English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. It is not a complete critical edition.