False conjunction; Christ named when Word became flesh
— even if he is thought to exist alone and by himself — and third, that the title fits both as one by their “conjunction,” (Psalm 45:7) which, they say, binds them into one person. They have no account of a true union according to nature. Yet that is the mystery’s straight and least wandering path.
Their pretext is not simple; it is filled rather with bitterness and deceit. God-breathed Scripture, when it names Christ, assigns him all that befits God — for it knows the Word of God has appeared in human form and been enfleshed. But those who choose other thoughts, and want to show the one from the woman as a common human advanced by his own human virtue until he deserved honor and a conjunction of person with the Word from God, and election by foreknowledge — they say the name Christ fits the Word begotten from God the Father even when he is thought and exists alone, privately, by himself.
We have not been taught to think or speak that way. When the Word became flesh, then, we say, he was also named Christ Jesus. Since he has been anointed with the oil of gladness — that is, with the Holy Spirit from God the Father — he is named Christ in that way. And that the anointing concerns the human, no one would doubt (John 1:14).
Greek
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λόγου, καθάπερ αὐτοί φασιν, εἰς ἐν αὐτοὺς πρόσωπον avv-
εἰσδέοντος᾽ ἑνώσεως yap τῆς kara, φύσιν καὶ ἀληθοῦς, οὐδεὶς ^ ’ y ^ Ἁ *
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πικρίας δὲ μᾶλλον καὶ ἀπατὴς μεμέστωται. ἐπειδὴ yap ἡ
θεόπνευστος γραφὴ Χριστὸν ὀνομάζουσα, πάντα αὐτῷ προσ- νέ ε — 0 “᾿ 16 b 16 3 3Ψ θ εἰ, ^ ue τὰ θεοπρεπῆ" oióe yap oióev ἐν ἀνθρωπείᾳ μορφῇ 454 A. ’ ’ Α ^ P . * Ἁ τοπεφηνοτα καὶ σεσαρκωμένον τὸν Θεοῦ Λογον᾽ σκοπὸς δὲ ^ ψΨΦΨ M ^ ^ e , N : d τοῖς érepa. παρὰ τοῦτο φρονεῖν ἡρημένοις καὶ κοινὸν ἀνθρω-
zov ἀποφαίνειν TOv ἐκ γυναικὸς ἐξ ἔπιδοσεως, ὡς ἔφην, καὶ
ὡς ἐξ ἰδίας re kai ἀνθρωπίνης ἀρετῆς ἄξιον ἑαυτὸν παραστή- σαντα τοῦ χρῆναι τιμᾶσθαι καὶ συναφείᾳ προσώπου τῇ
προς TOv ἐκ Θεοῦ Aoyov, koi ἀπόλεκτον γενέσθαι kara,
προγνωσιν᾽ ἐκεῖνο φασιν, ὁτι TO Χριστος ὄνομα πρέπει καὶ Ὁ , * , , σι μονῳ καὶ ἰδίᾳ καὶ καθ᾽ ἑαυτὸν νοουμένῳ καὶ ὕπαρχοντι τῷ ἐκ
Θεοῦ Πατρὸς γεννηθέντι Λόγῳ. ἡμεῖς δὲ οὐχ οὕτω δεδιδαγ-
μεθα φρονεῖν ἢ λέγειν. ὅτε γὰρ γέγονε σὰρξ ὁ Λόγος, τότε
ο καὶ ὠνομασθαι φαμεν avrov Χριστον ᾿Ιησοῦν. ἐπειδὴ yap κέ ^ $1 , ^ 3 λλ ) y ^ "A , II m ἐχρισται τῷ ἐλαίῳ τῆς ἀγαλλιασεως, ἤτοι τῷ ᾿Αγίῳ IIvev
Ἁ ^ ^ Ν ’ « ^. ματι παρὰ ToU Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρὸς, ταύτῃ τοι Xpiwrros ὀνομα-
(erat, ὅτι δὲ περὶ τὸ ἀνθρώπινον ἡ χρίσις, οὐκ ἂν ἐνδοιάσειέ o
τις τῶν ὀρθα φρονεῖν eioÜorov: εἰ μὲν yap Θεὸς ἐστι καὶ
5 Λόγος, οὐκ ἂν ἐδεήθη χρίσεως" ov yap Tov φαίη τις àv
κεχρίσθαι τε καὶ ἡγιασθαι τον ἐκ Θεοῦ Λογον τῷ ἰδίῳ
[{νευματι, ὡς ἑτέρῳ παρ᾽ avrov τὴν φύσιν ὑπερκειμένῳ καὶ
ε1: ὑπάρχων Edd. 2. ὡς evi C. Comm. Edd. mg. ὡσανεὶ Edd. 3. αὐτοὺς]
av C. αὐτὸ Comm. συνεισδέοντος C. Comm. Edd. mg. συνεισδέοντες Edd. 4- καὶ om. Aub. 5. ἔχοντες C. Comm. 6. αὐτοῖς C. Comm. αὐτῶν Edd.
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. 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.