Cyril of Alexandria, Commentaries on John Additions

Commentaries on John (additions)

being in the midst of their hands for the evangelist said this as if marveling, by which he signifies that easily escaping from the midst of those wh

the world also put on the yoke of slavery, serving creation, and was mastered, being tyrannized by Satan through the excesses of the passions, God int

of all angels. And that of the throne signifies the nature of the master or the sitting in the royal rank with creation standing by in the form of ser

of all angels. And that of the throne signifies the nature of the master or the sitting in the royal rank with creation standing by in the form of servitude.

21Jo 12, 44 What he says is something like this. The one who is able to recognize who is the one visiting through the flesh and apprehending the intelligible and more beautiful contemplation, this one truly finds me. And in faith toward me, he finds faith in the Father. It is similar, therefore, as if he said, the one believing in me does not believe in a man, but in the power of God, in which <ὁ> Father is known and believed.

ἀγγέλων πάντων. τὸ δὲ τοῦ θρόνου σημαίνει τὴν τοῦ δεσπότου φύσιν ἢ τὸ ἐν τάξει τῇ βασιλικῇ καθέζεσθαι παρεστώτων τῶν ἐν σχήματι δουλείας τῆς κτίσεως.

21Jo 12, 44 Ὃ λέγει, τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν. ὁ δυνάμενος ἐπιγνῶναι τίς ὁ διὰ τῆς σαρκὸς ἐπιδημῶν καὶ τῆς νοητῆς καὶ καλλίονος ἐπιλαμβανόμενος θεωρίας οὗτος εὑρίσκει μὲν ἀληθῶς ἐμέ. εὑρίσκει δὲ ἐν τῇ πρὸς ἐμὲ πίστει τὴν εἰς τὸν πατέρα. ὅμοιον οὖν, ὡσεὶ ἔλεγεν οὐκ εἰς ἄνθρωπον πιστεύει ὁ πιστεύων εἰς ἐμέ, ἀλλ' εἰς θεοῦ δύναμιν, ἐν ᾗ <ὁ> πατὴρ γινώσκεται καὶ πιστεύεται.