Cyril of Jerusalem: source notes

Topic: baptism

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310103.htm
Text: “If any man receive not Baptism, he has not salvation; except only Martyrs, who even without the water receive the kingdom.”
Context: Pre-baptismal catechesis (c. 350). Martyrdom is recognized as an exception (“baptism in their own blood”).
Bears on: B4
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310120.htm
Text: “you made that saving confession, and descended three times into the water, and ascended again; here also hinting by a symbol at the three days burial of Christ.”
Context: Describes threefold immersion, symbolizing burial with Christ (Rom 6).
Bears on: B3
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310122.htm
Text: “Consider therefore the Bread and the Wine not as bare elements, for they are, according to the Lord’s declaration, the Body and Blood of Christ; for even though sense suggests this to you, yet let faith establish you.”
Context: Instruction for the newly baptized. Authorship (Cyril or John of Jerusalem) is debated (to verify).
Bears on: E1
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310113.htm
Text: 13.33: “For we were enemies of God through sin, and God had appointed the sinner to die. There must needs therefore have happened one of two things; either that God, in His truth, should destroy all men, or that in His loving-kindness He should cancel the sentence. But behold the wisdom of God; He preserved both the truth of His sentence, and the exercise of His loving-kindness. Christ took our sins in His body on the tree”. 13.2: the Cross “ransomed the whole world of mankind.”
Context: God’s justice and mercy are both kept.
Bears on: A3, A4
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310118.htm
Text: “that not the souls only of the just might be honoured, but that it might be believed that in the bodies also of the just there lies a power, the corpse which was cast into the sepulchre of Elisseus, when it touched the dead body of the prophet, was quickened” (2 Kings 13:21).
Context: Argued in the context of the resurrection of the body.
Bears on: R1, R3
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310123.htm
Text: “Then we commemorate also those who have fallen asleep before us, first Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, that at their prayers and intercessions God would receive our petition. Then on behalf also of the Holy Fathers and Bishops who have fallen asleep before us, and in a word of all who in past years have fallen asleep among us, believing that it will be a very great benefit to the souls, for whom the supplication is put up, while that holy and most awful sacrifice is set forth.”
Context: Liturgy (c. 350). Saints are asked to intercede, and the other dead are prayed for.
Bears on: L2
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310104.htm (NPNF/ANF English translation)
Text: “For this salvation which we believe depends not on ingenious reasoning , but on demonstration of the Holy Scriptures.”
Context: Doctrine of the Spirit and the faith.
Bears on: C1
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310104.htm (NPNF/ANF English translation)
Text: “y, read none of the apocryphal writings : for why do you, who know not those which are acknowledged among all, trouble yourself in vain about those which are disputed? Read the Divine Scriptures, the twenty-two books of the Old Testament, these that have been translated by the Seventy-two Interpreters.”
Context: The OT canon for catechumens.
Bears on: C2
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310121.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “For Christ was not anointed by men with oil or material ointment, but the Father having before appointed Him to be the Saviour of the whole world, anointed Him with the Holy Ghost, as Peter says, Jesus of Nazareth, whom God anointed with the Holy Ghost.”
Context: Chrism after baptism, modelled on Christ’s anointing with the Spirit.
Bears on: K1
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310123.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “Then we commemorate also those who have fallen asleep before us, first Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, that at their prayers and intercessions God would receive our petition.”
Context: Liturgical commemoration.
Bears on: S18.1
Status: verified (English)