8. God then is One, the Father, the
Almighty, whom the brood of heretics have dared to blaspheme.
Yea, they have dared to blaspheme the Lord of Sabaoth The reference is to
Manes, of whom his disciple Turbo says (Archelai Disput. §
10), “the name Sabaoth, which is honourable and mighty with you,
he declares to be the nature of man, and the parent of lust: for
which reason the simple, he says, worship lust, and think it to be a
god.”, who sitteth above the
Cherubim Ps. lxxx. 1.: they have
dared to blaspheme the Lord Adonai ᾽Αδωναΐ, Heb. ינָדֹאַ,
“the Lord,” an old form of the Plural of majesty, used of
God only.: they
have dared to blaspheme Him who is in the Prophets the Almighty
God παντοκράτορα,
Heb. ידַּשׁ
לא”, El-Shaddai, “God
Almighty.”. But worship thou One God the
Almighty, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Flee from the
error of many gods, flee also from every heresy, and say like Job,
But I will call upon the Almighty Lord, which doeth great things and
unsearchable, glorious things and marvellous without
number Job v. 8, 9. Cyril’s quotation agrees
with the Codex Alexandrinus of the Septuagint, which has παντοκράτορα
, “Almighty,” while the Vatican and other mss. read τὸν πάντων
δεσπότην., and, For all
these things there is honour from the Almighty Job xxxvii. 23: God hath upon Him
terrible majesty (R.V.). The Vatican and Alexandrine
mss. of the Septuagint read ἐπὶ τούτοις
μεγάλη ἡ δόξα
καὶ τιμὴ
παντοκράτορος. (For these things great is the glory and honour of the
Almighty.) But Cyril’s text is the same as the Aldine
and Complutensian.: to Whom be the glory for ever and
ever. Amen.