Report·PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 17·c. 1955

Kourion Complex Palace (Mosaics) Fales, c. 1955 (1 of 2)De C. Fales (probably)

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 92 of report PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 17 (Kourion Complex Palace (Mosaics) Fales, c. 1955 (1 of 2)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 17, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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Τουτέστι τοῦ ἁγιασμοῦ καὶ οὐ καταλαμβάνεσθαι· εἰδὲ δώρεις κατὰ Βάθους Τουτέστι κατὰ τῆς πλάνης καὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας, 621 καταφθάσεσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν ἐναντίων δυνάμεων.

Although τὰ ὄρη οὐκ εἶσεν ἢ Ῥοπάζεσθαί μου must in a certain sense refer to the Church, there is a variant passage in which this is specifically stated; ἄνω πρὸς τὸν θεὸν ἔχεις τὴν διανοίαν σου καὶ ἐις τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ἐπιβλέπης ἀεί, ὡ κυριεύεσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν ἀκαθάρτων παθῶν καὶ τῶν παγίδων τοῦ διαβόλου. 622 In other words, the [handwritten: church] Church is a means of safety. Now Gregory Nazianus in a sermon on baptism said Δεῦτε ἀναβῶμεν εἰς τὸ ὄρος Κυρίου. ἐὰν δέ αὐτὸς ὁ Σωτήρ. Δεῦτε πρὸς με, πάντες οἱ κοπιῶντες καὶ πεφορτισμένοι, κἀγὼ ἀνα- παύσω ὑμᾶς. 628

Cyril of Jerusalem at the end of his description of the ceremony of baptism, said Ἐστι γὰρ τοῦτο τὸ ἅγιον πνευματικὸν ὕδωμα φυλακτήριον, καὶ ψυχῆς σωτήριον. Τοῦτο ἐκ παλαιῶν χρόνων δ μακάριος Ησαίας προφητεῦων ἔλεγε. Καὶ ποιήσει Κύριος πάσῃ ἑσθεσιν ἐπὶ τὸ ὄρας τοῦτο (ὄρος δὲ ποιεῖ τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν καὶ ἀλλάχοῦ, ὡς ὅταν λέγῃ· Καὶ ἔσται ἐν ταῖς ἐσχάταις ἡμέραις ἐμφανὲς τὸ ὄρος Κυρίου, πίονται οἶνον, πίονται εὐφρόσυνην χρίοντα μύρον. 624

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