On the True Faith, to the Princesses Arcadia and Marina · §96

Taken up in glory; believers in God believe Christ; faith into his name

…seen by angels, going up into the heavens, proclaimed also among the nations through the holy apostles, and believed also in the world. And we do not say at all that he is simply a human as we are, but that he is God in flesh and become as we are. And he was also taken up in glory, that he might hear God and Father saying: “Sit at my right until I put your enemies as a footstool of your feet.”

From Titus. “Faithful is the word, and about these things I want you to insist, that those who have believed God may be careful to devote themselves to good works.” Do those who believe God then not also believe into Christ? And yet blessed John is clearly seen saying about him: “But as many as received him, he gave them authority to become children of God, to those who believe into his name,” and blessed Paul himself also: “But knowing that a human is not justified from works of law except through faith of Jesus Christ, we also believed into Christ Jesus, that we might be justified in him.” When therefore those who bring the faith to Christ believe God, how would he not be true God?

That the faith is into Christ. From the Gospel according to John. “But as many as received him, he gave them authority to become children of God, to those who believe into his name.” He sets down two God-befitting things at once: for Christ is received by us in no other way than that the faith is also into him.

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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.