1.  Nurslings of purity and disciples of chastity, raise we our hymn to the Virgin-born God This passage supplies a complete answer to the suspicion of a quasi-Nestorian tendency referred to in note 6, on xi. 20.  See x. 19, note 2, on the title Θεοτόκος. with lips full of purity.  Deemed The Present Participle (καταξιούμενοι) means that the Candidates for Baptism were already on the way to be admitted to Holy Communion.  Compare Cat. i. 1, where the same Candidates are addressed as “partakers of the mysteries of Christ, as yet by calling only, but ere long by grace also.” worthy to partake of the flesh of the Spiritual Lamb Aubertin remarks on this passage that “this spiritual Lamb, consisting of head and feet, can be received only by the spiritual mouth.”  This explanation, however true in itself, cannot fairly be held to express fully the meaning of Cyril.  See the section of the Introduction referred to in the Index, “Eucharist.”, let us take the head together with the feet Ex. xii. 9:  the head with the feet.  The same figurative interpretation is given by Eusebius (Eccl. Hist. I. ii. § 1):  “In Christ there is a twofold nature; and the one—in so far as He is thought of as God—resembles the head of the body, while the other may be compared with the feet,—in so far as He, for the sake of our salvation, put on human nature with the same passions as our own.”, the Deity being understood as the head, and the Manhood taken as the feet.  Hearers of the Holy Gospels, let us listen to John the Divine ᾽Ιωάννῃ τῷ Θεολόγω.  The title is given to Moses by Philo Judæus (Vita Mos. III. § 11), to Prophets by Eusebius (Demostr. Evang. ii. 9), to Apostles by Athanasius (de Incarn. § 10:  τῶν αὐτοῦ τοῦ Σωτῆρος θεολόγων ἀνδρῶν), and especially to St. John, because the chief purpose of his Gospel was to set forth the Deity of Christ.  See note on Revel. i. 1, in Speaker’s Commentary, and Suicer, Thesaurus, Θεολόγος..  For he who said, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God John i. 1., went on to say, and the Word was made flesh Ib. i. 14..  For neither is it holy to worship the mere man, nor religious to say that He is God only without the Manhood.  For if Christ is God, as indeed He is, but took not human nature upon Him, we are strangers to salvation.  Let us then worship Him as God, but believe that He also was made Man.  For neither is there any profit in calling Him man without Godhead nor any salvation in refusing to confess the Manhood together with the Godhead.  Let us confess the presence of Him who is both King and Physician.  For Jesus the King when about to become our Physician, girded Himself with the linen of humanity Ib. xiii. 4., and healed that which was sick.  The perfect Teacher of babes Rom. ii. 20. became a babe among babes, that He might give wisdom to the foolish.  The Bread of heaven came down on earth John vi. 32, 33, 50. that He might feed the hungry.