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Lent Day 19: Cyprian: On the Unity of the Church: 10-18

...heart and breast of every one. No minced words here, that's for sure! These are also the people Jeremiah prophesied about too, he says, quoting Jer 2:13; 27:15; 23:21-22 as one combined paragraph against the heretics. Explaining more about how these schismatics operate, Cyprian points to Matthew 18:20 – “For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them”, and explains that this verse has been abused and misinterpreted by these heretics for their own ends as a way of saying their church gatherings are just as valid as the rest. He says that these “false interpreters of the Gospel” only quote the last words, ignoring the previou...

The Relationship Between Jesus and Sophia

...other’s breast”); Is 42:14 (where God cries out as a woman in labor); 46:3; 49:15 (“Can a mother forget her infant?”); 66:13 (“As a mother comforts her son . . .”); Nm 11:10–12; Hos 13:8 (“like a bear robbed of her cubs”); Gn 1:2 (where the Spirit hovers over creation as over a brood); Ps 17:8; 36:7; 57:1; 61:4; 91:1,4; Is 31:5 (shelter in the shadow of God’s wings); Jb 38:29 (which contains the image of a divine “womb”). For the New Testament, see Mt 23:37; Lk 13:34 (Jesus sighs, “How often would I have gathered your children together as a ‘hen’”); Acts 17:28 (states that “in him we live, move, have our being”); 1 Cor 3:1...

Lent Day 32: Cyril of Jerusalem: Catechetical Lectures: Lecture XXI

...s on your breast…” – this was to be the “breastplate of righteousness” (Eph 6:14; 1 Thess 5:8) so we are able to stand against the “wiles of the devil” (Eph 6:11). Then after this was done, and having been “counted worthy” to receive this anointing, they are then “called Christians” living up to the name through their new birth. Cyril goes on to explain how this type of anointing was prefigured in the Old Testament through Moses “bathing [Aaron] in water, he anointed him … and made him High-priest”. To them however these things happened in a figure, but to you not in a figure, but in truth; because you were truly anointed by t...