Bought by Christ’s blood; true God and eternal life; Jude: denying the Master
From Peter’s letter: “There were also false prophets… who will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them.” (2 Peter 2:1) For we were bought at a price “not with perishable things, silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ.” (1 Peter 1:18–19) So we belong to the one who purchased us, even while we serve the living and true God. How, then, is Christ not God — the one we have enrolled as Master, and know as living and true?
“And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true one, and we are in the true one, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.” (1 John 5:20) Jesus Christ is not understood as the Word from God the Father naked, by himself, and outside flesh; but when he became human, then he was also named Christ Jesus. So when he himself is the true God and the eternal life, who among those who think otherwise will put up with it?
From Jude: “While I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3). For certain people have crept in… who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.” How does someone who once believed deny our Lord Jesus Christ? We have received the word of the incarnation. But if we say that the Son who is the Word from God the Father is one, and another is…
Greek
* καὶ TOV ἀγοράσαντα αὐτοὺς δεσπότην á ἀρνούμενοι." ἢγο- c Josh iain γὰρ τιμῆς “ οὐ φθαρτοῖς, ἀργυρίῳ ἢ χρυσίῳ, ἀλλὰ 1 ὃ Pet. * τῷ τιμίῳ αἵματι τοῦ Χριστοῦ." ἐσμὲν οὖν ἄρα τοῦ πρια- ΠΝ μένου, καίτοι Θεῷ δουλεύοντες ζῶντι καὶ ἀληθινῷ. εἶτα πῶς sov Θεὸς ὁ Χριστὸς, ὃν καὶ δεσπότην ἐπεγραψάμεθα, ζῶντά τε οἴδαμεν καὶ ἀληθινόν ; * Kai οἴδαμεν ὅτι ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ ἥκει, καὶ δέδωκεν ἡ ἡμῖν qiue * διάνοιαν ἵνα γινώσκωμεν τὸν ἀληθινὸν Θεὸν, καὶ ἐσμὲν ἐν “ τῷ ἀληθινῷ, ἐν τῷ υἱῷ αὐτρῦ ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστῷ. οὗτος ἐστιν * 0 ἀληθινὸς Θεὸς καὶ ζωὴ αἰώνιος." ᾿Ιησοῦς Χριστὸς, οὐ γυμνὸς καὶ καθ᾽ ἑαυτὸν καὶ ἔξω σαρκὸς, ὁ ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ Πατρὸς νοεῖται Λόγος" ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε γέγονεν ἄνθρωπος, τότε καὶ ὠνόμασται Χριστὸς 'lggo)s. ὅτε τοίνυν αὐτός ἐστιν e 460. ὁ ἀληθινὸς Θεὸς καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἡ αἰώνιος, τίς τῶν ἕτερα φρονούν- ὅ τῶν ἀνέζεται ;
Ἐκ τῆς ᾿ἸΙούδα ἐπιστολῆς.
Πᾶσαν σπουδὴν ποιούμενος τοῦ γράφειν ὑμῖν περὶ τῆς 5. Ju4.
* κρινῆς ἡμῶν σωτηρίας, ἀνάγκην ἔσχον γράψαι ὑμῖν παρα- 9 *
καλῶν ἐπαγωνίζεσθαι τῇ ἅπαξ παραδοθείσῃ τοῖς ἁγίοις a 78 A. * πίστει. παρεισέδυσαν γάρ τινες ἄνθρωποι, οἱ καὶ πάλαι
* προγεγραμμένοι εἰς τοῦτο TO κρῖμα, ἀσεβεῖς, τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ φ ^ , v ’ “ ἡμῶν χάριν μετατιθέντες εἰς ἀσέλγειαν, καὶ τὸν μόνον
σποτὴν koi κύριον ἡμῶν ᾿Ιησοῦν Xpwrov ἀρνουμενοι.
κατὰ τίνα τρόπον ἀρνήσεται τις τῶν ἅπαξ πεπιστευκότων
τὸν κύριον ἡμῶν ᾿Ιησοῦν τὸν Χριστόν ; καίτοι παρεδεξα-
μεθα τὸν τῆς ἐνανθρωπήσεως λόγον. ἀλλ᾽ εἰ φαμέν, ὅτι b
erepos μέν ἐστιν vios ὁ ἐκ Θεοῦ Πατρὸς Λογος, ἕτερος δὲ
2. φθαρτῆς C. ἡ. Ἔκ τῆς ᾿Ιωάννου ἐπιστολῆς πρώτης praemittunt Edd.
τὸν μόνον xai Edd. 1I. σαρκὸς πατρὸς (sic) C. Comm. 14. ὁ et ἡ
27. ἕτερος prius om. Cod. ὁ υἱὸς ὁ C. υἱὸς om. Comm.
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.