Cyril of Jerusalem: source notes

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Topic: baptism

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BAP S1: Catechetical Lecture 3.10

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310103.htm
Text: “If any man receive not Baptism, he has not salvation; except only Martyrs, who even without the water receive the kingdom.”
Context: Pre-baptismal catechesis (c. 350). Martyrdom is recognized as an exception (“baptism in their own blood”).
Bears on: B4
Status: verified (English)

BAP S2: Mystagogical Lecture 2.4 (Cat. Lect. 20.4)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310120.htm
Text: “you made that saving confession, and descended three times into the water, and ascended again; here also hinting by a symbol at the three days burial of Christ.”
Context: Describes threefold immersion, symbolizing burial with Christ (Rom 6).
Bears on: B3
Status: verified (English)

Topic: eucharist

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EUC S1: Mystagogical Lecture 4.6 (Cat. Lect. 22.6)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310122.htm
Text: “Consider therefore the Bread and the Wine not as bare elements, for they are, according to the Lord’s declaration, the Body and Blood of Christ; for even though sense suggests this to you, yet let faith establish you.”
Context: Instruction for the newly baptized. Authorship of the five Mystagogical Catecheses is debated: some MSS name John II of Jerusalem; others preserve a Cyril (or Cyril-and-John) attribution (noted already in Schaff, NPNF² 7, Mystagogic title apparatus). Recent scholarship often favors Cyril (Alexis James Doval, Cyril of Jerusalem, Mystagogue, CUA Press, 2001; E. Yarnold), while others (e.g. Juliette Day) argue against Cyrilline authorship. Consensus is not settled; the English text here is treated as the Jerusalem mystagogical tradition under Cyril’s name as conventionally cited.
Bears on: E1
Status: verified (English; authorship debate noted, secondary)

Topic: atonement

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ATN S1: Catechetical Lecture 13.33 (with 13.2)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310113.htm
Text: 13.33: “For we were enemies of God through sin, and God had appointed the sinner to die. There must needs therefore have happened one of two things; either that God, in His truth, should destroy all men, or that in His loving-kindness He should cancel the sentence. But behold the wisdom of God; He preserved both the truth of His sentence, and the exercise of His loving-kindness. Christ took our sins in His body on the tree”. 13.2: the Cross “ransomed the whole world of mankind.”
Context: God’s justice and mercy are both kept.
Bears on: A3, A4
Status: verified (English)

Topic: relics

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REL S1: Catechetical Lecture 18.16

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310118.htm
Text: “that not the souls only of the just might be honoured, but that it might be believed that in the bodies also of the just there lies a power, the corpse which was cast into the sepulchre of Elisseus, when it touched the dead body of the prophet, was quickened” (2 Kings 13:21).
Context: Argued in the context of the resurrection of the body.
Bears on: R1, R3
Status: verified (English)

Topic: afterlife

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AFT S1: Mystagogical Lecture 5.9 (Cat. Lect. 23.9)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310123.htm
Text: “Then we commemorate also those who have fallen asleep before us, first Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, that at their prayers and intercessions God would receive our petition. Then on behalf also of the Holy Fathers and Bishops who have fallen asleep before us, and in a word of all who in past years have fallen asleep among us, believing that it will be a very great benefit to the souls, for whom the supplication is put up, while that holy and most awful sacrifice is set forth.”
Context: Liturgy (c. 350). Saints are asked to intercede, and the other dead are prayed for.
Bears on: L2
Status: verified (English)

Topic: scripture-and-tradition

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SCT S1: Catechesis 4.17

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310104.htm (NPNF/ANF English translation)
Text: “For this salvation which we believe depends not on ingenious reasoning , but on demonstration of the Holy Scriptures.”
Context: Doctrine of the Spirit and the faith.
Bears on: C1
Status: verified (English)

SCT S2: Catechesis 4.35

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310104.htm (NPNF/ANF English translation)
Text: “y, read none of the apocryphal writings : for why do you, who know not those which are acknowledged among all, trouble yourself in vain about those which are disputed? Read the Divine Scriptures, the twenty-two books of the Old Testament, these that have been translated by the Seventy-two Interpreters.”
Context: The OT canon for catechumens.
Bears on: C2
Status: verified (English)

Topic: other-sacraments

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OSR S1: Mystagogical Catechesis 3.2

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310121.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “For Christ was not anointed by men with oil or material ointment, but the Father having before appointed Him to be the Saviour of the whole world, anointed Him with the Holy Ghost, as Peter says, Jesus of Nazareth, whom God anointed with the Holy Ghost.”
Context: Chrism after baptism, modelled on Christ’s anointing with the Spirit.
Bears on: K1
Status: verified (English)

Doctrine S18

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S18 S1: Mystagogical Catechesis 5.9

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310123.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “Then we commemorate also those who have fallen asleep before us, first Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, that at their prayers and intercessions God would receive our petition.”
Context: Liturgical commemoration.
Bears on: S18.1
Status: verified (English)

Doctrine S06X

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S06X S1: Procatechesis 2

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310100.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “Even Simon Magus once came to the Laver : he was baptized, but was not enlightened; and though he dipped his body in water, he enlightened not his heart with the Spirit: his body went down and came up, but his soul was not buried with Christ, nor raised with Him.”
Context: Cyril’s opening lecture to people preparing for baptism (c. 350).
Bears on: S06.5
Status: verified (English)

S06X S2: Procatechesis 4

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310100.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “But if you persist in an evil purpose, the speaker is blameless, but you must not look for the grace: for the water will receive, but the Spirit will not accept you.”
Context: Cyril warns against coming to baptism with an insincere purpose.
Bears on: S06.5
Status: verified (English)

Doctrine F10X

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F10X S1: Catechetical Lectures 4.11

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310104.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “He went down into the regions beneath the earth, that thence also He might redeem the righteous.”
Context: Cyril’s summary of the faith for candidates for baptism (c. 350).
Bears on: F10.4
Status: verified (English)

Doctrine S05X

See S05X reasoning.

S05X S1: Mystagogical Catecheses 5.8

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310123.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “Then, after the spiritual sacrifice, the bloodless service, is completed, over that sacrifice of propitiation we entreat God for the common peace of the Churches, for the welfare of the world ; for kings; for soldiers and allies; for the sick; for the afflicted; and, in a word, for all who stand in need of succour we all pray and offer this sacrifice.”
Context: Cyril explains the eucharistic prayer to the newly baptized.
Bears on: S05.3
Status: verified (English)

S05X S2: Mystagogical Catecheses 5.10

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310123.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “of their penalties? In the same way we, when we offer to Him our supplications for those who have fallen asleep, though they be sinners, weave no crown, but offer up Christ sacrificed for our sins , propitiating our merciful God for them as well as for ourselves.”
Context: Cyril on prayer for the departed during the Eucharist.
Bears on: S05.3
Status: verified (English)