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Excerpts from the First Book, Translated by P. E. Pusey
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11 Pages
Page 9
thus S. Cyril cites Diodore as writing,
DIODORE. "A prophet shall the Lord God raise up to you out of your brethren, like one. Was the Prophet at all inferior to Moses? was he not Perfect man? Therefore neither is he of Nazareth less than a man, who is of the seed of David. But Perfect God out of Perfect God took perfect man:" and again, "For the Godhead did not, immediately on his formation or birth, put all His Wisdom within him, but by little and little gave it to the body."
to him who blasphemously utters these and such like lies, amid his blame the righteous accuser of the wickedness says,
CYRIL. It results that He is no longer God, but a God-clad man rather and in equal measure with these others, in whom God manifestly dwelt.
and he introduces Diodore wickedly saying,
DIODORE. "The [11] Son of God and that not by reason of ought (for He is so by Nature): the flesh is son by reason of the Son."
as to whom he also draws out his speech and says,
CYRIL. And how (tell me) by reason of the Son is the flesh by itself son? or of whom is it son at all? the Son's? and how dost thou not fall from hence, when thou hast brought the absurdity to this point? well then, is it the son of God the Father, in like manner as He too Who is by Nature and truly of His Essence? Two therefore unquestionably sons of God there are: and lo whither goes Paul who says, One God the Father of Whom everything and WE of Him, and One Lord Jesus Christ through Whom everything and WE through Him?
Cyril examining as to Emmanuel too, in these against Diodore wrote thus,
CYRIL. But when we are conceiving of the Only-Begotten Word, as united to His flesh, we do not take it as being like a garment nor do we say that He cast it upon Him like cloaks which are external, as though it were alien : but it is rather a demonstration of the declaration that He was made flesh, i. e. man. The Word therefore had a natural presence in the body which was united to Him and is His, just as also the soul of man is his, albeit the nature is alien.
11. [l] This extract is given more at length by Leontius of Byzantium, who gives it as, from Book 1 against the Synousiasts. Contra Nest. et Eutch. lib. iii in Gall. xii. 697.
Reference address : https://www.elpenor.org/cyril-alexandria/diodore-tarsus.asp?pg=9
