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St. Cyril of Alexandria: Commentary on the Twelve Prophets, Volume 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria (412–444), is best known as a protagonist in the christological controversy of the second quarter of the fifth century. Readers may be surprised therefore to find such polemic absent from this early work on the twelve minor prophets of the Old Testament. Another possibly unexpected feature of this Alexandrian commentary is its focus on historical exegesis, which...

Christ, the second Adam. Now, in what way was it renewed? As God, in fact, the Son is by nature also from God, truly born of the God and Father; the Spirit is proper to him, in him, and from him, (338) according to which, of course, by “him” is understood the God and Father. In so far as he became man, on the other hand, and is like us, he is said to have the Spirit imparted to him; it came down upon him, for instance, in the form of a dove when he became like us, as I said, and in the divine plan
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