A Commentary upon the Gospel according to S. Luke

by Cyril of Alexandria

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

, 1859

Overview

This commentary, like many other patristic commentaries, was delivered in a course of short sermons. Volume one includes 160 sermons covering the entirety of Luke’s gospel.

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Key Features

• Offers 160 sermons covering the Gospel of Luke
• Provides teaching from Cyril of Alexandria
• Compiles early church literature well suited for students

Contents

Top Highlights

“And observe, I pray, how the nature of man in Christ casts off the faults of Adam’s gluttony: by eating we were conquered in Adam, by abstinence we conquered in Christ.” (Page 54)

“For He became the fruit of the tree by having endured the precious cross for our sakes, that He might destroy death, which by means of the tree had invaded the bodies of mankind.” (Page 719)

“What is greater than a life of abstinence? For the very fact of being able to rebuke wisely those pleasures that lead to evil, and to cast over them as a bridle the laboriousness of a life of abstinence, how is not this a great and excellent thing! The blessed Baptist was entirely^a devoted to piety unto Christ; nor was there in him the very slightest regard either for fleshly lusts, or for the things of this world. Having altogether abandoned, therefore, the vain and unprofitable distractions of this world, he laboured at one, and that a very urgent task, of blamelessly fulfilling the ministry entrusted to him.” (Page 151)

“For we affirm, that the Son was anointed in no other way than by having become according to the flesh such as we are, and taken our nature. For being at once God and man, He both gives the Spirit to the creation in His divine nature, and receives it from God the Father in His human nature; while it is He Who sanctifies the whole creation, both as having shone forth from the Holy Father, and as bestowing the Spirit, Which He Himself pours^m forth, both upon the powers above as That Which is His own, and upon those moreover who recognised His appearing.” (Pages 58–59)

Product Details

• Title: A Commentary upon the Gospel according to S. Luke
• Author: Cyril of Alexandria
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1859
• Pages: 731
• Resource Type: Sermons
• Topic: Biblical Studies

About Cyril of Alexandria

Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376 – 444) was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. He came to power when the city was at its height of influence and power within the Roman Empire. Cyril wrote extensively and was a leading protagonist in the Christological controversies of the later 4th and 5th centuries. He was a central figure in the First Council of Ephesus in 431, which led to the deposition of Nestorius as Patriarch of Constantinople.