On the True Faith, to the Empresses Pulcheria and Eudocia · §39

Appears for us not naked Word but in our form

“For Christ did not enter into handmade holies, antitypes of the true ones, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us.” And he appears now for us before God’s face—in what manner? Was he not always apparent even before the incarnation? Therefore he appears in a new way: no longer a naked and fleshless Word, as indeed he also was in the beginning, but in the form and nature that is as we are. For we say that thus he has now appeared for us and, as it were, led human nature into the sight of God and Father, although it had come into aversion through the transgression in Adam. So then he presents us in the Father’s eyes, as in himself and first, insofar as he has appeared as human, so that he might bring us near to the Father.

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About this text

Cyril’s court treatise on right faith for Pulcheria and Eudocia (CPG 5220). One Son who suffers in flesh yet remains impassible as God. English from Pusey’s Greek.

English follows Pusey’s 1877 Greek of De recta fide ad Pulcheriam et Eudociam. 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 5220 §§1–48)

English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. It is not a complete critical edition.