Exact imprint; life-giving touch; hilasterion in his blood
…God has sealed.” The Son of Man has given us the food that remains into eternal life — clearly his flesh; for it is life-giving. Then how is the one who can give life even through his own flesh not God, and like in all things to God the Father? For this I take to be what it means to say he has been sealed by God — “to have been sealed” (John 6:27) signifying the exact likeness. For just as if someone presses a gold seal — or one made of another material — into wax, he marks the whole impress of it from the whole, so also God the Father has the characters of his own nature essentially shining in the Son. And this is what it means to say he has been sealed by the Father.
From Luke’s Gospel. Christ raised Lazarus (John 11:43–44), the synagogue ruler’s little daughter, the widow’s son. Then how is he not life by nature — the one who can terrify death not only by a word but also by the touch of the hand? For it was both fitting and necessary that the body of the life by nature be life-giving.
That he is a hilasterion through faith. From the letter to the Romans. About Christ he says: “Whom God put forward as a hilasterion through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins that had happened before in God’s forbearance, toward the demonstration of his righteousness in the present time, so that he might be (Romans 3:25)…
Greek
…ἐσφράγισεν ὁ Θεός.» βρῶσιν ἡμῖν δέδωκεν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τὴν μένουσαν εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον, δηλονότι τὴν σάρκα αὐτοῦ· καὶ γάρ ἐστι ζωοποιός. εἶτα πῶς οὐ Θεὸς ὁ ζωοποιεῖν δυνάμενος καὶ διὰ τῆς ἰδίας σαρκός, ἐοικώς τε κατὰ πάντα τῷ Θεῷ καὶ Πατρί; τοῦτο γὰρ οἶμαι δηλοῦν τὸ ἐσφραγίσθαι λέγειν αὐτὸν παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ, τοῦ ἐσφραγίσθαι σημαίνοντος τὸ ἀκριβῶς ἐμφερές. ὥσπερ γὰρ εἰ κηρῷ τις ἐμπήξει σφραγῖδα χρυσῆν ἤγουν ἐξ ἑτέρας ὕλης πεποιημένην, ὅλην ἐξ ὅλης τὴν αὐτῆς ἐμφέρειαν ἐνσημαίνεται, οὕτω καὶ ὁ Θεὸς καὶ Πατὴρ τοὺς τῆς ἑαυτοῦ φύσεως χαρακτῆρας οὐσιωδῶς ἐμπρέποντας ἔχει τῷ Υἱῷ. καὶ τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ ἐσφραγίσθαι λέγειν αὐτὸν παρὰ τοῦ Πατρός.
Ἐκ τοῦ κατὰ Λουκᾶν εὐαγγελίου. ἤγειρε τὸν Λάζαρον ὁ Χριστός, τὸ τοῦ ἀρχισυναγώγου θυγάτριον, τὸν τῆς χήρας υἱόν. εἶτα πῶς οὐ ζωὴ κατὰ φύσιν ἐστίν, ὁ μὴ μόνον λόγῳ καταπτοεῖν τὸν θάνατον δυνάμενος, ἀλλὰ γὰρ καὶ τῇ τῆς χειρὸς ἁφῇ; καὶ γὰρ ἦν ἀκόλουθόν τε καὶ ἀναγκαῖον ζωοποιὸν εἶναι τὸ σῶμα τῆς κατὰ φύσιν ζωῆς.
Ὅτι ἱλαστήριον διὰ πίστεως. Ἐκ τῆς πρὸς Ῥωμαίους ἐπιστολῆς. Περὶ Χριστοῦ φησίν· «Ὃν προέθετο ὁ Θεὸς ἱλαστήριον διὰ πίστεως ἐν τῷ αὐτοῦ αἵματι, εἰς ἔνδειξιν τῆς δικαιοσύνης αὐτοῦ, διὰ τὴν πάρεσιν τῶν προγεγονότων ἁμαρτημάτων ἐν τῇ ἀνοχῇ τοῦ Θεοῦ, πρὸς τὴν ἔνδειξιν τῆς δικαιοσύνης αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ νῦν καιρῷ, εἰς τὸ εἶναι αὐτὸν…
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.