The Catechetical Lectures
Cyril of Jerusalem · 350 · Eastern Orthodox · public-domain-translation
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- Cyril of Jerusalem NPNF2 VII, Catechetical Lectures, Lecture XVIII, 23
- Cyril of Jerusalem NPNF2 VII, Catechetical Lectures, Lecture V, 12
- Cyril of Jerusalem NPNF2 VII, Catechetical Lectures, Lecture XII, 16
Twenty-three lectures given to candidates for baptism at Jerusalem about 350, and the fullest picture anyone has of what a fourth-century church actually taught the people it was about to baptise — the creed clause by clause, the renunciation, the anointing, the eucharist, delivered in Lent and Easter week in the church of the Anastasis. The last five, on the mysteries themselves, could only be spoken to the newly baptised and say so.