By “aliens from
the Church,” and “those who are without,” S. Cyril
here means Pagans: so Tertullian, de Idololatriâ, c.
xiv. But the latter term is applied to a Catechumen in
Procatechesis. c. 12, and was also a common description of
heretics: see Tertullian, de Baptismo, c. xv.