Scholia on the incarnation of the Only-Begotten

Cyril of Alexandria (376–444)

1. What is Christ?

2. How we must understand Emmanuel.

3. What is Jesus.

4. Why the Word of God was called Man.

5. In what way the Word of God is said to have been emptied.

6. How Christ is One.

7. How Emmanuel is One.

8. What we say the union is.

9. Of the coal.

10. That the flesh having a reasonable soul hath become the Body of the unembodied Godhead, and that by severing them one from another, we shall wholly and surely undo the plan of the economy in Christ.

11. That the Word being co-brought to true union with the human nature, the things united have remained unconfused.

12. That the Word being God was made Man, and that not man merely honoured with bare connection was called to equal Dignity or Authority with God the Word, as some suppose.

13. That the Word of God made Man is called Christ Jesus.

14. Proofs of Divine Scripture, that the Word of God even when made Man remained God.

15. Another.

16. Another.

17. That Christ was not a God-clad man, nor did the Word of God merely dwell in a man, but rather that He was made Flesh, or Perfect Man, accordingto the Scriptures.

18. Ideas or thoughts.

19. Apostolic sayings wherein Christ is called God.

20. Another.

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See also

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