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Cyril of Alexandria

5th century · AD 444 · Eastern & Byzantine · 2,238 passages

Defender of the unity of Christ's person; wrote extensive commentaries on John and the prophets.

Background on Cyril of Alexandria

In his own words on Joel

  • Joel 1:5

    What a servile mentality from a crazed brain that knows how to do nothing else but gabble. We must reply to our opponents, "You are drunken men; rouse yourselves from your cups." Why do you do such violence to the truth? Why have you twisted the sense of the divine teachings so as to have been carried off the royal road?

    ON THE UNITY OF CHRIST

Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.