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Excerpts from the First Book, Translated by P. E. Pusey
St Cyril of Alexandria Resources Online and in Print
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11 Pages
Page 7
. . . what wise Cyril put forth against Diodore and wrote thus,
DIODORE. "For while the Lord was in the bowels of the Virgin and of her essence, He had not the honour of sonship; but when He was fashioned and became a temple for God the Word, in that He received the Only-Begotten, He took the honour of the name and was participant with Him in the honour."
to these the Saint mighty in the SPIRIT blaming him said,
CYRIL. Therefore according to thee, Emmanuel was not God nor Son at all, but a common man and one as we, but because on His birth the Only-Begotten came to Him, therefore He became too the Temple of God, and was vouchsafed the sonship and the Dignity: undoubtedly therefore He has the honour as something added to Him.
again he brings forward Diodore varying and contradicting himself and writing thus,
DIODORE. "But he who was of the seed of David, as created, had the Word for his God, and when created he became of God the Word : for with us first a temple is prepared, and then He Who dwelleth enters it; in the womb of the Virgin He Who dwelleth fashioned Himself a Temple and removed not from the Temple but filled it with His glory and His Wisdom : nor as in the case of the Prophets, was there ignorance with Him until the Spirit made revelation."
and again he cites him saying the opposite, after this wise,
"For the Godhead did not immediately on his creation or birth, infuse all His Wisdom within him, but by little and little gave it to the body."
against these things therefore, forthwith did he who wisely exposed them, add,
CYRIL. But it is meet before other things to say this: against what he says and wishes to hold, himself advances the contrary; for he affirms that the Godhead of the Son did not as soon as he was born, put all His wisdom within him, albeit he wrote in what is a little above [Diodorus cited by Cyril] "For with us first------but filled it with His glory and His wisdom" (as above).
Reference address : https://www.elpenor.org/cyril-alexandria/diodore-tarsus.asp?pg=7
