Servant yet Master; right hand of Power; life-giving body and blood
…in the Master’s way he almost shakes off being thought of in a servant’s rank; yet he honors this because of the human. “For I am,” he says, “in your midst as the one who serves.” (Luke 22:27) So even if he has come down among servants, he is still himself the one reclining — as Master, and served by all creation as God.
So Christ said to them — clearly to the chief priests of the Jews who were asking: “If you are the Christ, tell us. If I tell you, you will not believe; and if I ask, you will not answer. But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.” (Luke 22:67–69) If the Son of Man sits at the right hand of God’s power, how is Christ not God — shining in the highest seats and sharing the Father’s throne? For a created nature does not sit with the God who is so by nature at all; yet the Son of Man does sit with him. So he is God by economic union, the Word born from God having become flesh.
That Christ is life and life-giving. From the letter to the Corinthians: “I speak as to the wise; judge what I say. The cup of blessing that we bless — is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break — is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we the many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.” (1 Corinthians 10:15–17) Human flesh, as far as its own nature goes, would not be life-giving, nor would human blood if it were common and by itself; but Christ’s body and precious blood give life — and being able to give life belongs to God alone…
Greek
δε ΄ν * 45 ’ s 5 , ^ σποτικῇ, μονονουχὶ καὶ ἀποσείεται TO ἐν διακόνου νοεῖσθαι
τάξει τιμᾷ δὲ τοῦτο διὰ τὸ ἀνθρώπινον. ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι, ^ ^ ^ Φι φησὶν, ἐν μέσῳ ὑμῶν ὡς ὁ διακονῶν. οὐκοῦν κἂν εἰ κατα-
βέβηκεν ἐν διακόνοις, ἀλλ᾽ οὖν γέ ἐστιν αὑτὸς ὁ avakei-
5 μενος, ὡς δεσπότης kal παρὰ πάσης κτίσεως διακονούμενος ὡς Θεός.
Εἰπεν οὖν αὐτοῖς ὃ Χριστος, ÓgAovori τοῖς ἀρχιερεῦσι b ^ "I ὃ / 4 ^ ec , ΑἉ 9 ε , ΦᾺ e ^ τῶν ᾿Ιουδαίων ἐρωτῶσιν “ Ei cv εἶ 0 Χριστός ; ἐὰν ὑμῖν 8. Lc.
εἴπω, οὐ μὴ πιστεύσητε" ἐὰν δὲ ἐρωτήσω, oU μὴ ἀποκρι- — 67-69.
10 * βθῆτε. ἀπὸ ToU νῦν δὲ ἔσται ὃ vios τοῦ ἀνθρώπου καθή- “μενος ἐκ δεξιῶν τῆς δυνάμεως τοῦ Θεοῦ." εἰ κάθηται ἐκ δεξιῶν τῆς δυνάμεως τοῦ Θεοῦ ὁ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου υἱὸς, πῶς οὐ Α ^ Θεὸς ὁ Χριστὸς, τοῖς ἀνωτάτω θώκοις ἐμπρέπων, καὶ ὁμό- θρονος τῷ Πατρί; ov γὰρ συνεδρεύει τῷ κατὰ φύσιν Θεῷ ς
15 γενΊΤη φύσις ὅλως, συνεδρεύει δὲ ὁ vios τοῦ ἀνθρώπου" 4 M Α « , ^ Θεὸς apa καθ᾽ ἕνωσιν οἰκονομικὴν, σαρκὸς γεγονότος τοῦ ἐκ
Θεοῦ φύντος Λόγου.
Ὅτι ζωὴ καὶ zo0motóc ὁ Χριστόο.
Ἐκ τῆς πρὸς Κορινθίους.
20 Ὡς Φρονίμοῖς λέγω, κρίνατε ὑμεῖς ὁ φημί. τὸ ποτήριον dr
* τῆς εὐλογίας Ὁ εὐλογοῦμεν, οὐχὶ κοινωνια ἐστὶ TOU αἱματος
* χοῦ Χριστοῦ; τὸν ἄρτον Ov κλῶμεν, οὐχὶ κοινωνία ἐστὶ ^ ’ σι ^ [d φ y ἃ ^ * τοῦ σώματος TOU Χριστοῦ; ὅτι εἷς ἄρτος, ἐν σῶμα ἐσμεν
οἱ TOÀÀOU οἱ γὰρ πᾶντες ἐκ τοῦ ἑνὸς ἄρτου μετέχομεν. 2 5 e » 0 ’ὕ Ἁ [d D , , δι , 3 Ea » ἢ ἀνθρώπου σὰρξ, ὅσον ἧκεν εἰς ἰδίαν φύσιν, οὐκ ἂν εἴη
ζωοποιος, ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲ τὸ αἷμα TO ἀνθρώπινον, εἰ kowov εἴη 4 ς , ^ 4 « ^ ^ ΝΥ Aj /, καὶ καθ᾽ ἑαυτό ζωοποιεῖ δὲ τὸ σῶμα Χριστοῦ kal TO τίμιον e
αἷμα, πρέποντος μόνῳ Θεῷ τοῦ ζωοποιεῖν δύνασθαι τὸ ζωῆς
1. ἀποσείσεται Àub. 2. εἶμι, φησὶν hoc ordine C. Comm. 3. ó assumptum ex C. Comm. 13. ἀνωτάτοις C. Comm. τᾷ; γεννητὴ
19. Κορινθίους] 4- πρώτης Edd. 20. φρόνιμος (sic) C. 27. ζωοποιεῖται
.Comm. σῶμα] - τοῦ 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. 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)
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