11. And He is called by two names, Jesus
Christ; Jesus, because He saves,—Christ, because He is a
Priest Compare Eusebius
(Eccl. Hist. I. cap. iii.), a passage which Cyril seems to have
followed in his explanation of the names ‘Jesus’ and
‘Christ.’. And knowing
this the inspired Prophet Moses conferred these two titles on two men
distinguished above all For the common reading
ἐγκρίτοις
πάντων Cod. Mon. I. has
ἐκκρίτοις π.
which is required both by the construction and the sense. The
change may have been caused by the occurrence of ἐγκρίτων just
below.: his own
successor in the government, Auses Eusebius
(u.s): “His successor, therefore, who had not
hitherto borne the name Jesus, but had been called by another name,
Auses, which had been given him by his parents, he now called Jesus,
bestowing the name upon him as a gift of honour far greater than any
kingly diadem.” Auses is a common corruption of the name
Oshea. See the note on the passage of Eusebius in this
series., he renamed
Jesus; and his own brother Aaron he surnamed Christ Eusebius:
“He consecrated a man high-priest of God, in so far as that was
possible, and him he called Christ.” Cf. Lev. iv. 5, 16; vi. 22: ὁ ἱερεὺς ὁ
Χριστός, that by two well-approved men he might
represent at once both the High Priesthood, and the Kingship of the One
Jesus Christ who was to come. For Christ is a High Priest like
Aaron; since He glorified not Himself to be made a High Priest, but
He that spake unto Him, Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of
Melchizedek Heb. v. 4, 5, 6. Cyril omits from his quotation
the reference to Ps. ii.
7: “Thou art My
Son: this day have I begotten Thee.”. And Jesus
the son of Nave was in many things a type of Him. For when he
began to rule over the people, he began from Jordan Josh. iii. 1., whence Christ also, after He was baptized,
began to preach the gospel. And the son of Nave appoints twelve
to divide the inheritance Ib. xiv.
1.; and twelve
Apostles Jesus sends forth, as heralds of the truth, into all the
world. The typical Jesus saved Rahab the harlot when she
believed: and the true Jesus says, Behold, the publicans and
the harlots go before you into the kingdom of God Matt. xxi. 31.. With only a shout the walls of
Jericho fell down in the time of the type: and because Jesus
said, There shall not be left here one stone upon
another Matt. xxiv. 2., the Temple of the
Jews opposite to us is fallen, the cause of its fall not being the
denunciation but the sin of the transgressors.