Last Adam life-giving Spirit; image of the heavenly; incorruption
…in need of life. So Christ is God; for in this way his body will be life-giving. But if he is thought of as a human separately, honored only with the name of Christ and having a bare son’s person, how would his body be life-giving?
“The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a life-giving spirit,” (1 Corinthians 15:45–53) and again: “The first man is of the earth, dusty; the second man is the Lord from heaven. As the dusty one, so also those who are dusty; and as the heavenly one, so also those who are heavenly; and just as we have worn the image of the dusty, let us also wear the image of the heavenly. And this I say, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.” And he adds to these: “for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality.” The first human became a living soul; for as a creature he needed the God who gives life. But the last Adam — that is, Christ — because he did not need life as God, became a life-giving spirit for us, which is a proper advantage of the divine nature. And the first is the dusty one from earth; but the second is from heaven, though born through a woman — for the Word from above and from heaven and from God the Father, even if he has become human, is no less from heaven. And if, held by corruption and death, we are for that reason said to have worn the dusty one’s image, when we put on incorruption we will wear the heavenly one’s image. And incorruption again is a proper good of the deity by nature. For the dead are changed, and the corruptible…
Greek
ἐπιδεές. Θεὸς οὖν ἄρα Χριστὸς, οὕτω γὰρ ἔσται ζωοποιὸν 1908. τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ εἰ δὲ ἄνθρωπος ἀνὰ μέρος νοεῖται μόνῃ τῇ
τοῦ Χριστοῦ κλήσει τετιμημένος, καὶ γυμνὸν υἱοῦ πρόσωπον ἔχων, πῶς ἂν εἴη ζωοποιὸν τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ : 02A.a “Ἐγένετο ὁ πρῶτος ἄνθρωπος ᾿Αδὰμ εἰς ψυχὴν ζῶσαν, &
4s ^T". € ὁ ἔσχατος ᾿Αδὰμ els πνεῦμα ζωοποιοῦν,᾽ καὶ πάλιν “ Ὁ
πρῶτος ἄνθρωπος ἐκ γῆς χοϊκὸς, ὁ δεύτερος ἄνθρωπος ὁ * κύριος ἐξ οὐρανοῦ. οἷος ὁ χοϊκὸς, τοιοῦτοι καὶ οἱ χοϊκοὶ, * καὶ οἷος O ἐπουράνιος, τοιοῦτοι καὶ οἱ ἐπουράνιοι" καὶ Α ^ φ, ^ * καθὼς ἐφορέσαμεν τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ χοϊκοῦ, φορέσωμεν kal το
τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ ἐπουρανίου. τοῦτο δέ φημι, ἀδελφοὶ, ὅτι
b * σὰρξ kai αἷμα βασιλείαν Θεοῦ κληρονομῆσαι οὐ δύνανται,
* οὐδὲ ἡ φθορὰ τὴν ἀφθαρσίαν κληρονομεῖ," προσεπάγει δὲ
Ib.52,53. Τούτοις “Ὅτι σαλπίσει, καὶ οἱ νεκροὶ ἐγερθήσονται ἀφθαρ-
TOL, καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀλλαγησομεθα. δεῖ yap ro φθαρτον rovro 15 * ἐνδύσασθαι τὴν ἀφθαρσίαν καὶ τὸ θνητὸν τοῦτο ἐνδύ-
σασθαι τὴν ἀθανασίαν." εἰς ψυχὴν ζῶσαν ὁ πρῶτος ἄνθρωπος γέγονεν᾽ ἐδεῖτο γὰρ ὡς ποίημα τοῦ ζωοποιοῦντος
Θεοῦ" ὁ δέ ye ἔσχατος ᾿Αδαμ, τουτέστι Χριστος, ὅτι μὴ e ἐδεῖτο ζωῆς, ὡς Θεῦς, πνεῦμα γέγονεν εἰς ἡμᾶς ζωοποιοῦν, 10
ὅπερ ἐστὶ θείας φύσεως ἰδιον πλεονέκτημα. καὶ ὃ μεν
πρῶτος ὁ ἐκ γῆς xoikOs" ὁ δεύτερος δὲ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ, καίτοι
γεννηθεὶς διὰ γυναικὸς" ὁ yap ἄνωθεν kai ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἐκ Θεοῦ Πατρὸς Λόγος κἂν εἰ γέγονεν ἄνθρωπος, ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲν ἧττον ἐστιν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ. καὶ εἰ φθορᾷ καὶ θανάτῳ κατισχη- : μένοι, τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ χοϊκοῦ διὰ τοῦτο φορέσαι λεγόμεθα, ἃ τὴν ἀφθαρσίαν ἐνδυσάμενοι, τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ ἐπουρανίου φορέσομεν. ἀφθαρσία δὲ πάλιν ἴδιον ἀγαθὸν τῆς κατὰ
φυσιν θεότητος. ἀλλασσονται yop οἱ νεκροὶ, kai τὸ φθαρτὸν
2. μόνον C. Comm. 4. γυμνὸς Àub. 6. ἔσχατος ᾿Αδὰμ] δεύτε ἄνθρωπος C. Comm. unde δεύτερος Edd. mg. 77. χοϊκῆς C. ὁ κύριος ex et C. IO. φορέσομεν Cod. sed φορέσωμεν exhibet C. I2. δύνανται C. 8
σχημένοι Edd. 28. φορέσωμεν C. 39. ἀλλάσονται C.
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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