Cyril of Alexandria, Fragment on Psalm

Fragment on Psalm 1.5

Of Cyril. But sometimes a certain pity follows them, so that they may not fall into punishments equal to those of the impious. Therefore, these too will live again, but not in the council of the just; and by 'council of the just' he means, for instance, the rank and the dignity. For even if some of those who have sinned are worthy of mercy or pardon, they would not be numbered among the choirs of the saints, for their lot is different. And their boasts are raised high, and grace is an amulet, and delight is unending. For they have harvested the fruit of mighty deeds and are enriched with the rewards of their valor in every good thing whatsoever, as Christ says to them: Come, you who are blessed by my Father; inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Fragment on Psalm 2.7

The Lord said to me, You are my Son, today I have begotten you. He who alone knows the Father and is known only by the Father, his wisdom and his word, the angel of great counsel, very clearly reveals to us the mystery of the economy in the flesh. For being by nature and truly Son, and having shone forth from the very substance of God the Father, he became flesh, that is, man, and underwent with us the birth according to the flesh, although he is pre-eternal and always co-subsistent with the one who begot him. Yet even though he became flesh, the Father also thus knows him as his own Son, for he said, The Lord said to me: You are my Son, today I have begotten you.

You see at the beginning the confession, that is, the proclamation. For he has put "are" to show his pre-eternity; for he did not come to be in time, but was always this, that is, Son. But he added "Today I have begotten you," in order to show his most recent birth according to the flesh, which he willingly underwent through the holy Virgin. For this reason she is also named Theotokos; for she bore not simply a man joined to God by an external relation, but rather the very Word from God the Father who put on human poverty and became man like us. Confessing this faith we have been baptized, and we will not deny the master who purchased us with his own blood. Therefore, when the Father says that he has today begotten the Son who is ever-existing and pre-eternal from him—with "today" signifying the present time, that is, that of the incarnation—let us consider this, that the Father has confessed his own Son even as having become flesh, that is, man, and he makes his second birth according to the flesh his own, as it were. For because he became man, he did not cease to be by nature Son of God the Father, but remained so, a Son, and in his innate dignities, even though being rich he became poor for our sake.

Fragmentum in Psalmum 1.5

Κυρίλλου. Ἕπεται δέ τις αὐτοῖς ἐσθ' ὅτε καὶ οἰκτιρμὸς ὡς μὴ ταῖς ἴσαις τοῖς ἀσεβέσιν κολάσεσιν περιπεσεῖν. Οὐκοῦν ἀναβιώσονται μὲν καὶ οὗτοι, πλὴν οὐκ ἐν βουλῇ δικαίων, βουλὴν δὲ δικαίων φησίν, οἷον τὴν τάξιν καὶ τὸ ἀξίωμα. εἰ γὰρ καὶ εἶέν τινες τῶν ἡμαρτηκότων ἢ ἐλέους ἢ συγγνώμης ἄξιοι, οὐκ ἂν τοῖς τῶν ἁγίων ἐναριθμηθεῖεν χοροῖς, ἕτερος γὰρ ἐκείνων κλῆρος. καὶ ἀνεστηκότα τὰ αὐχήματα, καὶ περίαπτος ἡ χάρις καὶ ἀτελεύτητος ἡ τρυφή. τετρυγήκασι γὰρ καρπὸν ἀνδραγαθημάτων καὶ τῆς εἰς πᾶν ὅ τι οὖν τῶν ἀγαθῶν εὐανδρείας καταπλουτοῦσιν τὰς ἀμοιβάς, Χριστοῦ λέγοντος αὐτοῖς· ∆εῦτε οἱ εὐλογημένοι τοῦ Πατρός μου· κληρονομήσατε τὴν ἡτοιμασμένην ὑμῖν βασιλείαν ἀπὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου.

Fragmentum in Psalmum 2.7

Κύριος εἶπεν πρός με Υἱός μου εἶ σύ, ἐγὼ σήμερον γεγέννηκά σε. Ὁ μόνος εἰδὼς τὸν Πατέρα καὶ ὑπὸ μόνου γινωσκόμενος τοῦ Πατρός, ἡ σοφία καὶ ὁ λόγος αὐτοῦ, ὁ τῆς μεγάλης βουλῆς ἄγγελος, τῆς μετὰ σαρκὸς οἰκονομίας ἡμῖν τὸ μυστήριον εὖ μάλα διατρανοῖ. υἱὸς γὰρ ὢν φύσει καὶ ἀληθῶς, καὶ ἐξ αὐτῆς ἀναλάμψας τῆς οὐσίας τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρός, γέγονε σάρξ, τουτέστιν ἄνθρωπος, καὶ τὴν κατὰ σάρκα μεθ' ἡμῶν ὑπέστη γέννησιν, καίτοι προαιώνιος ὢν καὶ ἀεὶ συνυφεστηκὼς τῷ γεγεννηκότι. πλὴν εἰ καὶ γέγονε σάρξ, ἴδιον ὄντα υἱὸν οἶδεν αὐτὸν καὶ οὕτως ὁ Πατήρ, ἔφη γάρ Κύριος εἶπε πρός με· Υἱός μου εἶ σύ, ἐγὼ σήμερον γεγέννηκά σε.

Ὁρᾷς ἐν ἀρχῇ τὴν ὁμολογίαν, ἤγουν τὴν ἀνάρρησιν· τὸ μὲν γὰρ εἶ τέθεικεν, ἵνα δείξῃ τὸ προαιώνιον· οὐ γὰρ ἐν χρόνῳ γέγονεν, ἀλλ' ἦν ἀεὶ τοῦτο, τουτέστιν υἱός. ἐπήνεγκε δὲ τό Σήμερον ἐγέννησά σε, ἵνα τὴν νεωτάτην αὐτοῦ καὶ κατὰ σάρκα δείξῃ γέννησιν, ἣν ὑπέμεινεν ἑκὼν διὰ τῆς ἁγίας Παρθένου. ταύτῃ τοι καὶ Θεοτόκος ὠνόμασται· τέτοκε γὰρ οὐκ ἄνθρωπον ἁπλῶς κατά γε τὴν ἔξωθεν σχέσιν συναφθέντα τῷ Θεῷ, αὐτὸν δὲ μᾶλλον τὸν ἐκ Θεοῦ Πατρὸς Λόγον τὴν ἀνθρώπειαν ὑποδύντα πτωχείαν καὶ γενόμενον καθ' ἡμᾶς ἄνθρωπον. ταύτην ὁμολογοῦντες τὴν πίστιν βεβαπτίσμεθα, καὶ οὐκ ἀρνησόμεθα τὸν αἵματι τῷ ἰδίῳ πριάμενον ἡμᾶς δεσπότην. Οὐκοῦν ὅταν λέγῃ τὸν ἀεὶ ὄντα καὶ ἐξ αὐτοῦ προαιώνιον Υἱὸν γεννῆσαι σήμερον ὁ Πατήρ, τοῦ σήμερον ἐνεστηκότα καιρὸν σημαίνοντος ἤτοι τὸν τῆς ἐνανθρωπήσεως, ἐκεῖνο περινοήσωμεν, ὅτι καὶ σάρκα γεγονότα, τουτέστιν ἄνθρωπον, τὸν ἴδιον υἱὸν διωμολόγηκεν ὁ ςπατήρ, οἰκειοῦται δὲ ὥσπερ καὶ τὴν δευτέραν αὐτοῦ κατὰ σάρκα γέννησιν. οὐ γὰρ ὅτι γέγονεν ἄνθρωπος, ἀπέστη τοὺ εἶναι κατὰ φύσιν υἱὸς τοὺ Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρός, μεμένηκε δὲ καὶ οὕτως υἱὸς καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἐμφύτοις ἀξιώμασιν, εἰ καὶ πλούσιος ὢν ἐπτώχευσε δι' ἡμᾶς.