{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg4090.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4090.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4090.tlg001.local001","title":"In XII Prophetas","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Cyril of Alexandria","authorityName":"CYRILLUS Alexandrinus Theol.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4090-cyrillus-alexandrinus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4090-cyrillus-alexandrinus/","editors":["Philip Edward Pusey"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Cyrilli Archiepiscopi Alexandrini In XII Prophetas","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon","place":"Oxford","date":"1868","volume":"1-2","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"University of Leipzig","sponsors":["University of Leipzig"],"funders":["European Social Fund Saxony"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2014","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2015","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2015","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/operacyrilli01cyriuoft","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Cyril Of Alexandria. In XII Prophetas. ed. Philip Edward Pusey. Cyrilli Archiepiscopi Alexandrini In XII Prophetas, Oxford, Clarendon, 1868. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4090.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"OIHΘΕΙΗ μὲν ἄν τις περιττὸν εἶναί πὼς καὶ εἰκαιόβουλον, a καὶ οὔτι που σφόδρα τῶν ἀναγκαίων εἰς ὄνησιν, καὶ πολλοῖς ἤδη προειρημένα μονονουχὶ καὶ ἀνασκαλεύειν ἐπιχειρεῖν, καὶ τοῖς τῶν προλαβόντων πόνοις ἐπεισφέρειν ἐτέρους. καίτοι καὶ λίαν ἀποχρώντως ἐχόντων ἐκείνων εἴς γε τὸ δύνασθαι διατρανοῦν εὖ μάλα τὰς τῶν ἁγίων προφητῶν b συγγραφάς· ἐγὼ δὲ τὸ χρῆμα φαίην ἂν οὐχ ὧδε ἔχειν· πολλοῦ τε καὶ δεῖ. μεμνήσομαι γὰρ ἐπιφωνοῦντος τοῦ Παύλου τοῖς παρ’ αὐτοῦ μυσταγωγουμένοις “Tὰ αὐτὰ Phil. iii. 1. “λέγειν 5 ὑμῖν, ἐμοὶ μὲν οὐκ ὀκνηρὸν, ὑμῖν δὲ ἀσφαλές.” Ἅθρει δὲ ὅπως ἐστὶν ἀληθὴς ὁ λόγος. εἰ γάρ τι προκέοιτο τῶν ἀναγκαίων εἰς εἴδησιν, εἶτα πολλοὶ καὶ παρὰ πολλῶν ἐπ’ αὐτῷ δὴ τούτῳ γένοιντο λόγοι, βλάβος μὲν ἔσται τὸ σύμπαν οὐδέν· ὀνήσειε δ’ ἂν ὅτι μάλιστά γε τοῖς ἀκροωμένοις. εἰ μὲν γὰρ ἀλλήλοις συμβαίνοντας ποιοῖντο τοὺς λόγους οἱ διερμηνεύειν εἰωθότες, ἀσφαλεστέρα που πάντως a 2 Α τοῖς…","divisions":[{"label":"Commentary hosea","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4090.tlg001.local001/#tlg4090-tlg001-local001-hosea"},{"label":"Commentary joel","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4090.tlg001.local001/#tlg4090-tlg001-local001-joel"},{"label":"Commentary amos","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4090.tlg001.local001/#tlg4090-tlg001-local001-amos"},{"label":"Commentary obadiah","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4090.tlg001.local001/#tlg4090-tlg001-local001-obadiah"},{"label":"Commentary jonah","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4090.tlg001.local001/#tlg4090-tlg001-local001-jonah"},{"label":"Commentary micah","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4090.tlg001.local001/#tlg4090-tlg001-local001-micah"},{"label":"Commentary nahum","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4090.tlg001.local001/#tlg4090-tlg001-local001-nahum"},{"label":"Commentary habakkuk","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4090.tlg001.local001/#tlg4090-tlg001-local001-habakkuk"},{"label":"Commentary zephaniah","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4090.tlg001.local001/#tlg4090-tlg001-local001-zephaniah"},{"label":"Commentary haggai","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4090.tlg001.local001/#tlg4090-tlg001-local001-haggai"},{"label":"Commentary zechariah","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4090.tlg001.local001/#tlg4090-tlg001-local001-zechariah"},{"label":"Commentary malachi","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4090.tlg001.local001/#tlg4090-tlg001-local001-malachi"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4090.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg4090.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4090/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}