The rich man and Lazarus: their opposite fates
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Cyril opens his treatise by summarizing the gospel story of the rich man and Lazarus and their opposite fates after death.
There was a rich man who rejoiced daily in splendor, and a poor man named Lazarus had been laid at his gate, covered with sores, according to the gospel story. It happened, then, that both died, and the poor man departed into rest, but the other into punishment.
Greek
Solutiones (fragmentum e tractatu de dogmatum solutione) (e cod. Vat.
gr. 447)
Ηʹ. Ἄνθρωπός τις ἦν πλούσιος, εὐφραινόμενος καθ' ἡμέραν λαμπρῶς·
πτωχὸς δέ τις Λάζαρος ἐπὶ τὸν τούτου πυλῶνα ἐβέβλητο ἡλκωμένος κατὰ τὴν
εὐαγγελικὴν ἱστορίαν. ἐγένετο οὖν ἀμφοτέροις ἀποθανεῖν καὶ τοῦτον μὲν τὸν
πτωχὸν εἰς τὴν ἀνάπαυσιν ἀπελθεῖν, τὸν δὲ εἰς τὴν κόλασιν.