One deity raises; Son raises his own body with the Father
On Christ being said to have been raised from the dead in the Father’s power. The inspired Paul writes concerning Abraham: “It was not written for him alone that faith was reckoned to him unto righteousness, but also for us to whom it is going to be reckoned, who believe upon the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was handed over because of our trespasses and was raised because of our justification.” There is one nature of deity, yet it is worshiped in three hypostases by us and by the spirits above. And since the deity is one, every work most fitting to it alone would reasonably be a work of the whole. For all things are done by God and Father through Son in Spirit.
So even if the Father should somewhere be said to make alive, he will altogether work it through the Son in the Holy Spirit; and even if the Son works life in those needing life, it is not apart from the consubstantial Father, for he has in himself the one who begot him. Therefore the Father is said to have raised Christ from the dead, yet we will not find the Son idle about the resurrection of his own body. Indeed he said to the Jews: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it.” And observe that when blessed Paul says faith will also be reckoned to us who have believed upon the one who raised Jesus Christ from the dead, the faith is not toward the Father alone.
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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.