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In this video cover St. Cyril's Genesis 6-14 Bible Commentary, the biblical events that St. Cyril discusses in Book 2 of Glaphyra are as follows: Noah's Ark Show more.
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Theology Classics: Cyril of AlexandriaIn this episode, Matt Emerson and Luke Stamps summarize and discuss the main points of Cyril’s On the Unity of Christ, ...
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Oct 17, 2020 · Genesis According to St. Cyril of Alexandria, Genesis 1-6 Bible Commentary - YouTube. David Erhan. 17.4K subscribers. 215. 3K views 3 years ago. Glaphyra on the Pentateuch:...
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- The Soul Is Not The Spirit
- When Sin Rules, The Spirit Departs
- Salvation – A Return to Genesis 2:7
Cyril explicitly identifies the “breath of life” in Gen. 2:7 as the Holy Spirit. However, he is concerned that some might misunderstand the passage and assume that the Holy Spirit became Adam’s soul. He warns his readers, “Let none of us catechize falsely on this point.”2Cyril, Commentary on John 14:20 (Maxwell 2:187). The exegetical difficulty he ...
Correspondingly, when Cyril describes the fall into sin, he often focuses on the loss of the Spirit and the loss of life. He identifies the curse in Gen. 3:19, “Earth you are, and to earth you will return”11When Cyril quotes the Old Testament, he always quotes the Septuagint. In Gen. 3:19, the Septuagint has “earth,” not “dust” as English Bibles, f...
Salvation for Cyril reverses this loss. One of the many images Cyril uses to describe salvation is theosis, or divinization. The two most often cited Scripture texts in this regard are “You are gods” (Psa. 82:6) and “so that through them [God’s promises] you may become partakers of the divine nature” (2 Pet. 1:4). When Cyril describes salvation thi...
Jun 27, 2024 · (378 – June 27, 444) Saint Cyril of Alexandria’s Story. Saints are not born with halos around their heads. Cyril, recognized as a great teacher of the Church, began his career as archbishop of Alexandria, Egypt, with impulsive, often violent, actions.
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Marie-Odile Boulnois shows how Cyril’s Trinitarian thought connects with his Christology, soteriology and pneumatology. Trinitarian belief was, for Cyril, the first article of faith and he defended the mystery against Arianism and modalism and pagan criticisms.
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Among his writings are commentaries on John, Luke, and the Pentateuch, treatises on dogmatic theology, and Apologia against Julian the Apostate, and letters and sermons. He died on the 9th or the 27th of June, 444, after an episcopate of nearly thirty-two years.
