10. For the name of Faith is in the form of
speech κατὰ τὴν
προσηγορίαν. Compare Aristotle, Categories, V. 30:
τῷ
σχήματι τῆς
προσηγορίας.
Cyril’s description of faith as twofold, and of dogmatic faith as
an assent (συγκατάθεσις)
of the soul to something as credible, seems to be derived from Clement
of Alexandria, Strom. II. c. 12. Compare by all means Pearson on
the Creed, Art. I. and his Notes a, b, c. one, but has two distinct senses. For
there is one kind of faith, the dogmatic, involving an assent of the
soul on some particular point: and it is profitable to the soul,
as the Lord saith: He that heareth My words, and believeth Him
that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and cometh not into
judgment John v. 24.: and again,
He that believeth in the Son is not judged, but hath passed from
death unto life Ib. iii.
18; v. 24.. Oh the great
loving-kindness of God! For the righteous were many years in
pleasing Him: but what they succeeded in gaining by many years of
well-pleasing εὐαρεστήσεως
, Bened. and Reischl, with best mss.
Milles and the earlier editions have ἐρευνήσεως,
“searching.”, this Jesus now
bestows on thee in a single hour. For if thou shalt believe that
Jesus Christ is Lord, and that God raised Him from the dead, thou shalt
be saved, and shalt be transported into Paradise by Him who brought in
thither the robber. And doubt not whether it is possible; for He
who on this sacred Golgotha saved the robber after one single hour of
belief, the same shall save thee also on thy believing Luke xxiii. 43; the argument is used again in Cat.
xiii. 31..