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 Источником премудрости и жизни зовется и является Бог. Ибо через Иеремию Он говорит: «Мене оставиша, Источника воды живы»'. И снова:«Престол славы возвышен, место святыни нашея, чаяние Исраилево, Господь. Вси оставляющий Тя да постыдятся, отступающий на земли. Да напишутся, яко оставиша источник живых вод, Господа»   . И через Варуха:«Оставили есте Источника премудрости» . Итак, когда таким является и называется Бог, то из этого следует, что Источнику премудрости должно сосуществовать то, что из Него проистекает, поскольку не бывает источника, который бы ничего не источал. Стало быть, когда говорят, что «было, когда не было» Сына, Который говорит о Себе: «Аз есмь живот»  и «Аз, премудрость, вселих совет», то приходится вместе с этим ясно исповедовать, что Источник некогда был сухим и бесплодным. Если же это нечестиво, ибо присно плодоносна Божественная природа, и ничего в ней нет нового, то было соприсносущным Родившему исшедшее из Него истинное Слою, словно бы изливающееся от некоего источника Отеческой сущности.

NEED FOR REPENTANCE. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: Against those who, in the greatness of their wickedness, have scorned God’s goodness and rejected the Savior, there is decreed wrath and misery. . . . For those who are in their sins are full of shame. For so it is somewhere said of the Israelites, who violated the law of Moses: Like the shame of a thief when he is caught, so will the children of Israel be ashamed. But those who are in Christ by faith, escaping from the pollutions of sin, are certainly not full of shame but also have that boldness that becomes those who are free. COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 95.

DEFILEMENT ANGERS GOD. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: It makes God angry for us to imagine that we are free from all impurity. He is even found saying to one of those who led polluted lives, Behold, I have a suit with you because you say I have not sinned, in that you have acted very contemptuously in repeating your ways. For the repetition of the way to sins is for us, when we are overtaken by offenses, to refuse to believe that we are guilty of the defilement that arises from them. COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 149.

NEED FOR CONFESSION OF SIN. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: Let us, therefore, pray without ceasing, according to the expression of the blessed Paul. Let us be careful to do so aright. . . . Remember him who says by the voice of Isaiah, Declare your sins first, that you may be justified; remember too that he rebukes those who will not do so and says, Behold, I have a judgment against you, because you say I have not sinned. Examine the words of the saints, for one says, “The righteous is the accuser of himself in the beginning of his words,” and another says, “I said, I will confess against myself my transgression to the Lord; and you forgave the iniquity of my heart.” COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 120.

IMPORTANCE OF CONFESSION. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: For God readily accepts and has mercy on those who do not forget their offenses but fall down before him and ask of him forgiveness. But he is severe, and very justly so, on the hardhearted and the proud, and on one who in his great ignorance acquits himself of blame. For God said to one thus disposed, Behold, I have a suit against you, because you say, I have not sinned. For who can boast that he has a pure heart? Or who can have confidence that he is undefiled by sins? The road then to salvation, and which delivers those who earnestly walk on it from the wrath of God, is the confession of offenses, and to say in our prayers to him who purifies the wicked, Forgive us our sins. COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 76.