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8. There was a certain rich man, who feasted sumptuously every day; and a certain poor man, Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores, according to the gospel story. It came to pass, then, that both died, and this poor man went to his rest, but the other to punishment. Did these things already happen 86 and a worthy retribution was allotted to each, or does it prefigure the image of the future judgment in these things? But, he says, since it names the appellation of Lazarus, it truly happened and was done. For why did it not say, "A certain poor man," but "Lazarus"? So that by the appellation it might show these things to have been done in experience and in truth. Solution: The judgment, etc.

9. Whether Hosea the prophet took a harlot for a wife and begot children from her in deed and in action, or does he speak of things to be understood prophetically. Whether Melchizedek was not simply a man nor a spirit, but a man not having the beginning of his generation from men but newly created by God.

CYR.Concerning these chapters, a long discourse has been made by us, when we were writing on Hosea the prophet, and in the book on Genesis a great deal of examination is found concerning Melchizedek, and it is possible for your piety to consult the books and from there to grasp the meaning of what has been said on each point.

Solutiones (fragmentum e tractatu de dogmatum solutione) (e cod. Vat.

gr. 447)

Ηʹ. Ἄνθρωπός τις ἦν πλούσιος, εὐφραινόμενος καθ' ἡμέραν λαμπρῶς· πτωχὸς δέ τις Λάζαρος ἐπὶ τὸν τούτου πυλῶνα ἐβέβλητο ἡλκωμένος κατὰ τὴν εὐαγγελικὴν ἱστορίαν. ἐγένετο οὖν ἀμφοτέροις ἀποθανεῖν καὶ τοῦτον μὲν τὸν πτωχὸν εἰς τὴν ἀνάπαυσιν ἀπελθεῖν, τὸν δὲ εἰς τὴν κόλασιν. ταῦτα ἤδη γέγονε 86 καὶ ἀνταπόδοσις ἀξία ἐκληρώθη ἑκάστῳ, ἢ τῆς μελλούσης κρίσεως ἀνατυποῖ τὴν εἰκόνα ἐν τούτοις; ἀλλά, φησίν, ὁπότε ὀνομάζει Λαζάρου προσηγορίαν, ἀληθῶς γέγονε καὶ ἐπράχθη. διὰ τί γὰρ μὴ εἶπε Πτωχὸς δέ τις ἄνθρωπος, ἀλλὰ Λάζαρος; ἵνα τῇ προσηγορίᾳ δείξῃ πείρᾳ καὶ ἀληθείᾳ ταῦτα πεπράχθαι. Ἐπίλυσις Τὴν κρίσιν κτλ.

Θʹ. Εἰ ἔλαβεν Ὠσηὲ ὁ προφήτης γυναῖκα πόρνην καὶ ἐτέκνωσεν ἐξ αὐτῆς πράξει καὶ ἐνεργείᾳ, ἢ προφητικῶς νοούμενα λέγει. Εἰ ὁ Μελχισεδὲκ οὐκ ἄνθρωπος ἁπλῶς οὐδὲ πνεῦμα, ἀλλ' ἄνθρωπος ἀρχὴν γενέσεως οὐκ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἔχων ἀλλὰ προσφάτως δημιουργηθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ.

CYR.Περὶ τούτων τῶν κεφαλαίων μακρὸς ἡμῖν πεποίηται λόγος, ὅτε ἐγράφομεν εἰς τὸν Ὠσηὲ τὸν προφήτην, καὶ ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ δὲ τῷ περὶ τῆς Γενέσεως πολλὴ βάσανος εὑρίσκεται περὶ τοῦ Μελχισεδέκ, καὶ ἔξεστι τῇ εὐλαβείᾳ σου ταῖς βίβλοις ἐντυχεῖν κἀκεῖθεν λαβεῖν τῶν εἰρημένων ἐφ' ἑκάστῳ τὸν νοῦν.