Cyril of Alexandria: Letters 51-110 by Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria Cyril

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13. 16 ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA (3) Those who out of ignorance have belittled possession of the true faith, and then exalt their way of life with virtuousness, somehow are like to men who have goodly features of face but the glance of their eyes is irregular and distorted. "6 The right sight of the eyes hidden within is to be able to see plainly and subtly, insofar as is allowed, whatever considerations there may be concerning the words of God. "For we see through a mirror in an obscure manner and we know in part" 7 but "he who discloses the recesses of the darkness" 8 sends the light of truth to those who wish to gain a knowledge concerning him rightly.

84 (33) Accordingly, following in the footsteps of the confession of the Fathers without deviation we say that the very Word of God the Father, begotten as the only begotten Son, was incarnate, and was made man, suffered, died, and rose from the dead on the third day. The Word of God is impassible confessedly as far as pertains to his own nature as the Word of God. No one is so thunderstruck as to think that the nature which is over all things is able to be receptive of suffering. 30. 38. 58.

22) Therefore there is one Lord Jesus Christ, the very only begotten Word of the Father made man, who did not relinquish being what he was, for he remained God in his humanity, master in the form of a slave, having in the emptying like unto us the fullness of divinity, being in the weakness of the flesh the Lord of power, and in the measure of his humanity having as his own that which is above all creation. For, what he was before the flesh, he has, being incapable of losing it, for he was God, true Son, the only begotten, light, life, and power.

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