Introduction

Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on John, LFC 43, 48 (1874/1885). Book 11. Vol. 2 pp. 453-588.

[Translated by T. Randell]

1. That the Holy Spirit is naturally of God, and in the Son, and through Him and in His Substance.

2. That His Spirit, that is, the Holy Spirit, is naturally in the Son and in His Substance, as He is also in the Substance of the Father.

3. That no man should consider that the Son has any lack of God-befitting glory, though He be found to say, “Father, glorify Thy Son.”

4. That it will in no way damage the glory of the Son when He is said to have received aught from God the Father, since for this we can assign a pious reason.

5. That the Son will not be excluded from being true God, even though He names God the Father ”the only true God”

6. That the Son is not bare of God-befitting glory, even though He is found saying to the Father, ”And now glorify Me with the glory which I had,” &c.

7. That the fact that something is said to have been given to the Son from the Father does not rob Him of God-befitting dignity; but He plainly appears to be Consubstantial, and of the Father, even if He is said to receive aught.

8. That nothing which is spoken of as belonging to the Father will be excluded from the kingdom of the Son, for both alike rule over all.

9. That the dignity of Godhead is inherent in the Son; even though He is said to have received this from the Father, because of His humanity and the form of His humiliation.

10. That the Christ is not holy from participation in anything different from Himself, and that the sanctification through the Spirit is not alien to His Substance.

11. That the Son is naturally one with God His Father; and that He is in the Father and the Father in Him, according to the essential bond and character of their Unity; and that likewise also we ourselves, when we receive faith in Him, are proved one with each other and with God, both in a corporeal and in a spiritual sense.

12. That the Son is by nature one with God His Father, though He says that He received, as by way of grace, His being one with the Father.

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