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St Photius the Great, tr. Freese, 1920; selections

136. Codex 136: Cyril of Alexandria, Thesauri

Read the Thesauri of Cyril.¹ The work is dialectical, and attacks the madness of Arius and Eunomius with vigorous and manifold arguments. By logical methods he skilfully refutes their folly and by combining and introducing evidence from Holy Writ he completely exposes the unsoundness of their doctrine. He quotes the simple evidence from Scripture, thus everywhere closing their insolent mouths so that they are unable to answer. This work is the clearest of all Cyril’s works, especially to those who are able to grasp the significance of his logical methods.

Notes

Of Alexandria (see Cod. 49). The work deals with “the holy and consubstantial Trinity.”