Fragments on Acts and the Catholic Epistles · §2

Hope in Resurrection

He was about at once to be burned up with the cities and himself the ill-famed temple; houses too to be smoked, shaken by earthquakes.

That moreover before the day of the great and manifest one, in which to all the divine judgment-seat of Christ giving to each according to his works will be set forth, these things will happen to the Jews, he foretold saying: Before the coming of the day of the Lord the great and manifest.

Moreover also my flesh will encamp upon hope.

Of Cyril. For he rose again three-day, because it was not possible for life existing according to nature him to be held fast by the bonds of death.

And again: Not indeed it is lawful to say corruption to be able ever to hold fast the flesh united to the Word, and to be a dwelling place of them the gates of Hades the divine to become soul.

For he was not left in Hades, as also the blessed Peter said: That you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will you give your holy one to see corruption.

Of Cyril. For he rose again having spoiled Hades, and to those in bonds saying: Come forth; and to those in darkness: Be revealed.

He made known to me ways of life.

and as upon us the first calling beautiful.

Greek

Κυρίλλου. Ἐπὶ ταῖς τῶν Ἰουδαίων δυσσεβείαις, ταῖς εἰς Χριστὸν δηλονότι γεγενημέναις, καὶ αὐτὴ τῶν στοιχείων δεδυσφόρηκεν ἡ φύσις, κατωλοφύρατο δὲ ὥσπερ ἡ κτίσις, ὑβρισμένον ὁρῶσα τὸν ἑαυτῆς ∆εσπότην. Καὶ ὁ μὲν θεῖος ναὸς μονονουχὶ καὶ ἀσχάλλων τοῖς πενθοῦσιν ἐν ἴσῳ, περιεῤῥήγνυτο· γέγραπται γὰρ ὅτι τὸ καταπέτασμα τοῦ ναοῦ ἐσχίσθη ἀπὸ ἄνωθεν ἕως κάτω. Ἥλιος δὲ τὸ οἰκεῖον ἀνάπτων σέλας, καὶ τὴν ἀκτῖνα συνενεγκὼν, οὐκ ἠξίου φαίνειν ἕτι τοῖς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς· ἐποίει γὰρ σκότος ἀπὸ ὥρας ἕκτης ἕως ὥρας ἐνάτης. Ἐσχίζοντο δὲ καὶ αἱ πέτραι· τάχα δέ που καὶ περὶ τὸν τῆς σελήνης κύκλον ἐπράττετό τι τῶν ἀσυνήθων, ὡς δοκεῖν εἰς αἷμα μεταπεποιῆσθαι καὶ αὐτήν. Σεσίγηται μὲν οὖν τὸ τοιόνδε παρὰ τοῖς ἁγίοις εὐαγγελισταῖς· ἀξιόχρεώς γε μὴν ἡ πίστις ἐκ προφητείας. ὅτι τοῖς τοῦ ∆ημιουργοῦ νεύμασιν οὐκ ἐν ἡλίῳ μόνῳ τὰ σημεῖα γέγονεν, ἀλλ' οἷον ὅλη πρὸς τὸ 1 ἀκαλλὲς καὶ ἀσύνηθες αὐτῇ μετακεχώρηκεν ἡ κτίσις, σαφὲς ἂν γένοιτο διὰ φωνῆς λέγοντος Ἡσαΐου· Καὶ ἐνδύσω τὸν οὐρανὸν σκότος, καὶ θήσω ὡς σάκκον τὸ περιβόλαιον αὐτοῦ. Οὐρανὸν δὲ ὅταν λέγῃ, πάντα που πάντως φησὶν τὰ ἐν οὐρανῷ· καὶ οἷον σάκκῳ τῷ σκοτεινῷ καταμφιέσαι φησὶ, πενθοῦντά τε καὶ κατηλγηκότα· καὶ αὐτῷ δὴ τούτῳ διακεκραγότα τῷ σχήματι. Σημεῖα μὲν οὖν ἤτοι τέρατα τὰ ἐν οὐρανῷ ταυτὶ φαίην ἄν. Τὰ δέ γε εἰς γῆν αἷμά τε καὶ πῦρ καὶ ἀτμίδα καπνοῦ, καταδηλώσειεν ἂν, οἶμαί που, τὰς τῶν Ἰουδαίων συμφορὰς, ἃς ὁ παγχάλεπος αὐτοῖς ἐπεσώρευσε πόλεμος, ὁ διὰ τῆς Ῥωμαίων χειρός. Αἵματι μὲν γὰρ ἡ πᾶσα μὲν αὐτοῖς κατεῤῥαίνετο χώρα· ἔμελλε δὲ ὅμου ταῖς πόλεσι καταπίμπρασθαι καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ διαβόητος νεώς· οἶκοί τε καπνίζεσθαι κατασεσεισμένοι. Ὅτι δὲ καὶ πρὸ τῆς ἡμέρας τῆς μεγάλης καὶ ἐπιφανοῦς, καθ' ἣν ἅπασι τὸ θεῖον προκείσεται βῆμα Χριστοῦ διδόντος ἑκάστῳ κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ, τὰ τοιάδε τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις συμβήσεται, διαμεμήνυκεν εἰπών· Πρὶν ἐλθεῖν τὴν ἡμέραν Κυρίου τὴν μεγάλην καὶ ἐπιφανῆ. 74.761 Ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἡ σάρξ μου κατασκηνώσει ἐπ' ἐλπίδι. Κυρίλλου. Τριήμερος γὰρ ἀνεβίω, καθότι οὐκ ἦν δυνατὸν ζωὴν ὅντα κατὰ φύσιν αὐτὸν τοῖς τοῦ θανάτου κρατεῖσθαι δεσμοῖς. Καὶ πάλιν· Οὐ γάρ τι θέμις εἰπεῖν φθορᾷ μὲν δύνασθαι κρατεῖσθαί ποτε τὴν ἑνωθεῖσαν τῷ Λόγῳ σάρκα, κάτοχον δὲ αὐταῖς ᾅδου πύλαις τὴν θείαν γενέσθαι ψυχήν· οὐκ ἐγκατελείφθη γὰρ εἰς ᾅδου, καθὰ καὶ ὁ θεσπέσιος ἔφη Πέτρος. Ὅτι οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψεις τὴν ψυχήν μου εἰς ᾅδην, οὐδὲ δώσεις τὸν ὅσιόν σου ἰδεῖν διαφθοράν. Κυρίλλου. Ἀνεβίω γὰρ σκυλεύσας τὸν ᾅδην, καὶ τοῖς ἐν δεσμοῖς εἰπών· Ἐξέλθετε· καὶ τοῖς ἐν τῷ σκότει· Ἀνακαλύφθητε. Ἐγνώρισάς μοι ὁδοὺς ζωῆς. Κυρίλλου Ἀλεξανδρείας. Ἐκεῖνο διδάσκων ὅτι τὸ τῆς ἀνθρωπότητος ἔχων πρόσωπον ὁ καθ' ἡμᾶς γεγονὼς, τοὺς ἡμῖν μᾶλλον καὶ οὐκ αὐτῷ πρέποντας, καθὸ νοεῖται Θεὸς, ἀνίησι λόγους, ὡς ἐφ' ἑαυτῷ καὶ πρώτῳ καλῶν· ἐφ' ἡμᾶς τὴν

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Cyril of Alexandria, Fragmenta in Acta et epistulas catholicas (Greek).

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