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St. Cyril of Alexandria is best known for his role in the Christological disputes of the fifth century. In recent years, however, scholars have turned their attention to Cyril the exegete. Cyril wrote extensive commentaries on nearly every book of the Bible; in fact, two-thirds of his extant corpus is devoted to biblical interpretation. Yet, despite this strong interest in Cyril as theologian and...

For he has been cast out, and that means into complete worthlessness, ejected from his dominion over those who have been unjust. For Immanuel, crucified for everyone and because of everyone, redeemed the life of everyone by his own blood, and through himself joined to God the Father the race that had shied away from its original intimacy with him. For “he is the mediator between God and man,”19 as is written, mixing together in an ineffable combination that which is held in thought, being at once
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