Fragment of the Answers to Questions · §2 · Cyril of Alexandria

Whether the Lazarus story already happened or images the coming judgment

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An unnamed interlocutor raises the question whether the rich man and Lazarus account has already been enacted with due recompense, or whether it images the coming judgment, and argues from the naming of Lazarus that it truly happened.

Have these things already happened, and has each person been allotted the recompense he deserved? Or does he image forth in them the image of the coming judgment? But, he says, since he names the name of Lazarus, it truly happened and was enacted. For why did he not say, “Some poor man,” but “Lazarus”? So that by the name he might show that these things were enacted in experience and truth. Solution: the judgment, etc. Question 9.

Greek

ταῦτα ἤδη γέγονε 86

καὶ ἀνταπόδοσις ἀξία ἐκληρώθη ἑκάστῳ, ἢ τῆς μελλούσης κρίσεως ἀνατυποῖ τὴν

εἰκόνα ἐν τούτοις; ἀλλά, φησίν, ὁπότε ὀνομάζει Λαζάρου προσηγορίαν, ἀληθῶς

γέγονε καὶ ἐπράχθη. διὰ τί γὰρ μὴ εἶπε Πτωχὸς δέ τις ἄνθρωπος, ἀλλὰ Λάζαρος; ἵνα

τῇ προσηγορίᾳ δείξῃ πείρᾳ καὶ ἀληθείᾳ ταῦτα πεπράχθαι. Ἐπίλυσις Τὴν κρίσιν κτλ.

Θʹ.

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