# Fragmenta in sancti Pauli epistulam ii ad Corinthios 359

Cyrillus, Fragmenta in sancti Pauli epistulam ii ad Corinthios, Page 359. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/cyrillus-theol/fragmenta-in-sancti-pauli-epistulam-ii-ad-corinthios/359

γε τῶν ἤδη παρῳχηκότων καὶ τῶν ἔσεσθαι προσδοκωμένων· ταύτῃτοί φησιν Εἰ δοκιμὴν ζητεῖτε τοῦ ἐν ἐμοὶ λαλοῦντος Χριστοῦ. εἰκὸς γὰρ, φησὶ, περιμένετε καὶ διὰ τῶν δευτέρων ἰδεῖν πότερόν ποτε Χριστὸς ἐν ἐμοὶ λαλεῖ, καὶ πρὸς πέρας ἄγει τοὺς τῶν ἐπιτιμήσεων τρόπους· μὴ γὰρ οἴεσθε, φησὶ, κατά τινας τῶν ἀπίστων ἔτι καὶ ὑβριστῶν ἀσθενεῖν αὐτόν· δυνατεῖ γὰρ ἐν ὑμῖν, δῆλον ὅτι τοῖς πεπιστευκόσι καὶ ὑπ' αὐτῷ γεγονόσιν, ἐν οἷς καὶ ἀναγκαίαν χαρίζεται τὴν φροντίδα, καὶ πλημμελοῦντας ἐπιστρέφει. δυνατεῖ τοιγαροῦν ἐν ὑμῖν· ἐνεργεῖ γὰρ ὡς Θεὸς καὶ ἀληθεῖς ἀποφαίνει τὰς τῶν ἁγίων φωνάς· καὶ τὸν ἐμὸν ἰσχύοντα πάντη τε καὶ πάντως εὑρήσετε λόγον· εἰμὶ γὰρ ὁ λαλῶν οὐκ αὐτὸς ἐγὼ, Χριστὸς δὲ μᾶλλον ὁ ἐν ἐμοί. ἐπειδὴ δὲ ποιεῖται μνήμην τῶν ἐκ πολλῆς ἄγαν ἀβελτερίας οἰηθέντων ἀληθῶς ἀσθενῆσαι Χριστὸν, διά τοι τὸ ὑπομεῖναι σταυρὸν, καὶ τῆς Ἰουδαίων ἀνασχέσθαι σκαιότητος ἤγουν δυσσεβείας, ἀπολογεῖται χρησίμως, τὴν τοῦ μυστηρίου δύναμιν εἰς μέσον ἄγων ἐπὶ καιροῦ, καὶ τὴν ἑκούσιον κένωσιν τοῦ Μονογενοῦς ἐξηγούμενος, καὶ τῆς μετὰ τοῦτο δόξης τὴν ἀσύγκριτον ὑπεροχήν. ναὶ γάρ φησιν, ὡς γοῦν οἴονται κατὰ σφὰς αὐτοὺς οἱ τοῦ πιστεύειν ἔτι μακρὰν, ἐσταυρώθη ἐξ ἀσθενείας, πέπονθεν ὡς ἄνθρωπος, καὶ τὸν ἐν σαρκὶ θάνατον ὑπέμεινεν ἑκὼν, ἀλλ' ἦν ἀναγκαῖον εἰδέναι πρὸς τούτοις, ὅτι σκυλεύσας τὸν ᾅδην, καὶ πατήσας τοῦ θανάτου τὸ κράτος, ἀνεβίω τριήμερος, οὐκ ἀνθρωπείᾳ δυνά-

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Cyrillus Theol., Fragmenta in sancti Pauli epistulam ii ad Corinthios. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg4090.tlg005.local001/.