Crucified Christ is God’s testimony; Lord of glory
— the true one. So he knows the crucified Christ as God, and he proclaims him to the world, persuaded that he does not err.
“And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come with superiority of speech or wisdom announcing to you the testimony of God. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2:1–2)
See how clearly, when he says he announces “the testimony of God” to the world, he added “Christ Jesus, and him crucified.” Therefore Christ Jesus, who endured the cross for us, is God. And his testimony is announced to the world through the holy apostles not in superiority of worldly speech and wisdom, but as in the Spirit’s power.
“Yet among the mature we speak wisdom — not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are being abolished — but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom that God predetermined before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew. For if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” (1 Corinthians 2:6–8)
If Christ’s mystery is God’s wisdom and is proclaimed to the world, yet — as some somehow think — he is not truly God and faith is toward him anyway, how is the mystery wise if it carries people on earth away from true knowledge of God and turns the world into worship of a human? That is not the truth. The mystery is wise because it brings the straying near to God. Therefore Christ is God, and the crucified one is rightly called Lord of glory.
“According to the grace of God given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it.” (1 Corinthians 3:10)
Greek
ἀληθινῷ. Θεὸν οὖν οἷδε Χριστὸν rov ἐσταυρωμένον, kai TQ
κόσμῳ κηρύττει, reÜapankos ὅτι μὴ σφαλλεται.
* Καγὼ ἐλθὼν πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἀδελφοὶ, ἦλθον ov καθ᾽ vmepo- 1 Ὅτ.
χὴν Aoyov ἢ σοφίας καταγγέλλων υμῖν TO μαρτύριον TOU
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οὖν ἄρα ἐστὶν ὁ σταυρον δι᾿ ἡμᾶς ὑπομείνας X puros ᾿Ιησοῦς,
ιο οὗ καὶ τὸ μαρτύριον οὐκ ἐν ὑπεροχῇ Aoyov καὶ σοφίας κοσ- δι -^ [4 x ^ e , μικῆς καταγγέλλεται TQ κόσμῳ διὰ τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων,
ἀλλ᾽ ὡς ἐν δυνάμει Πνεύματος. e
“ Σοφίαν δὲ λαλοῦμεν ἐν τοῖς τελείοις, σοφίαν δὲ οὐ τοῦ — 1b.6-8.
* αἰῶνος τούτου οὐδὲ τῶν ἀρχόντων TOU αἰῶνος τούτου τῶν
15 4 καταργουμένων, ἀλλα λαλοῦμεν Θεοῦ σοφίαν ἐν μνστηρίῳ , ἃ ’ Ἁ hy ^ * τὴν ἀποκεκρυμμένην, ἣν προώρισεν ὁ Θεὸς πρὸ τῶν αἰώνων ἐς . ’ [] ^ 4 , EY ^ 3 , ^ .^ /, εἰς δόξαν ἡμῶν, ἣν οὐδεὶς TOv ἀρχόντων τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου 168R.
* ἔγνωκεν" εἰ yàp ἔγνωσαν, οὐκ ἂν τὸν κύριον τῆς δόξης
* ἐσταύρωσαν." εἰ Θεοῦ σοφία τὸ μυστήριον Χριστοῦ, εἶτα a 62 A.
o7Q κόσμῳ κηρύττεται, καὶ Θεὸς οὐκ ἐστιν ἀληθῶς, κατὰ τὸ 4 σι » «x e ^ τισιν οὐκ οἷδ᾽ ὅπως δοκοῦν, kai εἰς αὑτὸν ἡ πίστις, πῶς ἐστι
τὸ μυστήριον σοφὸν, εἰ τῆς ἀληθοῦς θεογνωσίας ἀποκομίζει
τοὺς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ λατρείαν ἀνθρώπου τὴν οἰκουμένην ^ ^ » Ἁ Α * , ἀποτελεῖ: ἀλλ᾽ ov τοῦτο ἐστιν ἀληθές. aodov δὲ ro μυστή-
«ριον, ὅτι Θεῷ προσάγει τοὺς πεπλανημένους. Θεὸς apa
ὁ Χριστὸς, εἴρηται δὲ kai δικαίως κύριος τῆς δόξης o éarav
ρωμένος. Ἁ Ἁ , ^ ^ A ^ , hj δι. “ Κατὰ τὴν χάριν τοῦ Θεοῦ τὴν δοθεῖσαν μοι ὡς σοῴος b Iosiro.
* ἀρχιτέκτων θεμέλιον ἔθηκα, ἄλλος δὲ ἐποικοδομεῖ. θεμέλιον — 10. τι.
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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.