Cyril of Alexandria
Cyrillus Alexandrinus
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Eunomus here is a man of good birth, eloquent speech, and practiced decency.
Zenobius asks you through me for help on behalf of his father.
We know how well you treated Alexander -- for the man who benefited did not hide it.
Dionysius, who urged me to write to you, first convinced me that you speak of me with praise -- and he convinced me...
Liking cannot see far ahead, while dislike cannot see clearly.
Just as the emperor is subject to the laws, the law having a life of its own, so a priest is subject to the laws of...
Once the hierarchy used to correct and temper the office of emperor when it stumbled and fell, but now it has fallen...
Secular power and spiritual authority are different things and must not be confused.
Go, brother Cyril, to your mother Church — from which you were not excommunicated, only separated for a period...