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St. Cyril of Alexandria is best known for his role in the Christological controversies of the fifth century. In recent decades, scholars have been attending more carefully to his exegetical legacy. Most of Cyril’s work takes the form of biblical commentary rather than doctrinal treatise. Indeed, during his long career he wrote commentaries on nearly every book of the Bible. Less attention,...

woman, like us. The Spirit-bearer,21 however, says that he “has been given” to us.22 For it was not for himself that “he emptied himself,”23 and put on the poverty of our state; it was that we might abound in what is his, and, having washed away sin with its ignominy and profanation, might gain through him purification through faith. For as the Son himself says, “God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, that everyone who believes in him might not perish, but might have eternal
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