The connexion of σώματα with money and
possessions suggests the not uncommon meaning
“slaves.” See Polyb. xviii. 18 § 6:
καὶ τὴν
ἐνδουχίαν
ἀπέδοντο καὶ
τὰ σώματα,
καὶ σὺν
τουτοις ἔτι
τινὰς τῶν
κτήσεων,
“household furniture, and slaves, and besides these some also of
their lands.” See Dictionary of Christian
Antiquities, “Slavery,” where it is shewn that
Christians generally and even Bishops still possessed slaves throughout
the 4th Century.
But here it is perhaps more probable that
Cyril refers, as before, Cat. iv. § 23, to the Manichean doctrine
of the body as the root of sin.