Antiochus; Amphilochius; Ammonius
From bishop Antiochus: “For yesterday, in undefiled birth pangs, the life-bearer, the fair-bearer, the great-bearer, the light-bearer, the hope-bearer, the God-bearer, the strange-bearer, the virgin-mother Mary brought us a Savior.” (John 1:14)
From Amphilochius, bishop of Iconium, from the treatise on the birth according to the flesh: “The truth was made known, grace came, and life appeared. The Son of God, the Word from God, became flesh for us, so that he might raise mortals into eternal life and wake them from the dead. The maker of all things, who is before all creation, visible and invisible, coexisting immortal with the Father alone and the Spirit — see, today he is born to us from a virgin, without any sin, without a human father.” (1 Timothy 2:6)
From Ammonius, bishop of Adrianople: “For he too said somewhere about the Word of God: But if he himself is God by nature, as God’s Only-begotten Son, and in taking the slave’s form was also counted worthy to be called firstborn son of the holy virgin, he gave himself as a ransom for all.” He goes on: “I have already shown the impiety into which the Arians fall when they say the God-bearer Mary needed the sacrifices then offered under the law for women who give birth.”
Greek
e ᾿Αντιόχου ἐπισκόπου.
» Or χθὲς ἀχράντοις λοχείαις σωτῆρα ἡμῖν, ἡ ζωοτόκος, » 7) καλλιτόκος, ἡ μεγαλοτόκος, ἡ φαεσφύρος, ἡ ἐλπιδοφόρος, » ἦ θεοτόκος, ἡ ξενοτόκος, ἡ παρθενομήτωρ ὥδινε Μαρία."
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» Ἢ ἀλήθεια ἐγνώσθη, ἡ χάρις ἦλθε, kai ἡ ζωὴ ἐφανη᾽ ὁ
, Τοῦ Θεοῦ dv Ὑἱὸς, ὁ ἐκ Θεοῦ Λόγος, σὰρξ ἐγένετο à » ἡμᾶς, ἵνα θνητοὺς εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον ἀναστήσῃ καὶ ἐκ τῶν
» vekpGv aveyetpy ὃ ποιητὴς τῶν ὅλων, ὃ πρὸ πασὴξιο
» kTigeos, ὁρατῶν Te καὶ ἀοράτων, μόνῳ Πατρὶ καὶ Ivev-
b, ματι συνυπάρχων ἀθάνατος, σήμερον ἰδοὺ ἡμῖν ἐκ Tap-
» θένου γεννώμενος, χωρὶς πάσης ἁμαρτίας, ἄνευ ἀνθρώπου
» ἦτοι ἀνδρὸς."
"Aupevos επισκόπον ᾿Αδριανουπόλεως. 15 "Eó ydp Tov καὶ αὐτὸς περὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγον.
o Ei δὲ αὐτὸς Θεὸς τὴν φύσιν ὑπάρχων, ὡς τοῦ Θεοῦ
τῳ Movoyevns 'Yios, ἐν προσλήψει τῆς δούλου μορφῆς yevo-
» μενος, καὶ πρωτότοκος vios τῆς ἁγίας παρθένου κληθῆναι
, καταξιώσας ἀντίλυτρον ἑαυτὸν ὑπὲρ πάντων ἔδωκε. 9
προσεπάγει δὲ τούτοις ““ Ἤδη μὲν ἔδειξα τὴν ἀσέβειαν ἢ
» Tepurimrovgiv οἱ ᾿Αρειανοὶ, λέγοντες χρείαν ἐσχηκέναι τὴν
» θεοτόκον Μαρίαν τῶν κατὰ τὸν νόμον τότε προσφερο-
d,, μένων θυσιῶν ὑπὲρ τῶν τικτουσῶν γυναικῶν.
21. προσάγει C. Comm.
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About this text
Cyril’s court treatise on right faith for Arcadia and Marina (CPG 5219). One Son, Word made flesh — not two Christs. English from Pusey’s Greek.
English follows Pusey’s 1877 Greek of De recta fide ad Arcadiam et Marinam. 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 5219 §§1–100)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Greek on each section for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.