Coptic Orthodox Spiritual Library

The coptichymns.net Spiritual Library features hundreds of articles on Coptic Orthodoxy, spirituality, Coptic hymns, stories of the saints and desert fathers, and more.

 
Search coptichymns.net Content

results match your search:

34 - Book 5: Prologue

by Saint Cyril of Alexandria
This has been labelled as prologue since it is not an introduction and Saint Cyril has not titled it as Chapter One (which follows after it). "Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said Is not This He whom they seek to kill?" to "Whom ye...
 

33 - Book 4: Chapter Seven: A dissertation upon the circumcision on the eighth day, manifoldly shewing of what it is significant.

by Saint Cyril of Alexandria
A dissertation on circumcision.
 

32 - Book 4: Chapter Six: A dissertation upon the rest of the Sabbath, manifoldly showing of what it is significant.

by Saint Cyril of Alexandria
"If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision that the law of Moses should not be broken, are ye angry at Me, because I made a whole man well on the sabbath day" to "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous...
 

31 - Book 4: Chapter Five: On the feast of Tabernacles, that it signifies the restitution of the hope due to the Saints, and the resurrection from the dead; on the words, Now the feast of the Jews, that of Tabernacles was at hand.

by Saint Cyril of Alexandria
"And after these things Jesus used to walk in Galilee, for He would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews were seeking to kill Him" to "Therefore hath Moses given you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers) and ye on...
 

30 - Book 4: Chapter Four: That a type of Christ was the holy Tabernacle which led the people In the wilderness, and that the ark that was in it and the lamp and the altar, as well that of incense as that of sacrifice, signfied Christ Himself.

by Saint Cyril of Alexandria
"Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go away? Thou hast the words of eternal life" to "Jesus answered them, Did not I choose you twelve, and one of you La a devil? He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon, for he it was...
 

29 - Book 4: Chapter Three: That the Son is not a Partaker of Life from any other, but rather Life by Nature, as being begotten of God the Father Who is Life by Nature.

by Saint Cyril of Alexandria
"As the Living Father sent Me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth Me, he too shall live by Me" to "Jesus therefore said unto the twelve, Would ye also go away?"