Book I

Commentary on the Gospel according to John · St Cyril of Alexandria

1. Introduction
2. CHAPTER I. That Everlasting and before the ages is the Only-Begotten.
3. CHAPTER II. That the Son being Consubstantial with the Father is also God in His Own Person, even as also the Father. And the Word was with God.
4. CHAPTER III. That the Son is both God by Nature and in no wise either inferior to or unlike the Father. And the Word was God.
5. CHAPTER IV. Against those who dare to say that the conceived and Natural word in God the Father is one, and He that is called Son by the Divine Scriptures another: such is the misconceit of Eunomius' party. 2 This was in the beginning with God.
6. CHAPTER V. That the Son is by Nature Creator with the Father, as being of His Essence, and not taken to Him as a minister. 3 All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made.
7. CHAPTER VI. That the Son is by Nature Life and therefore not originate, but of the Essence of God the Father. 4 That which was made, in it was Life.
8. CHAPTER VII. That the Son is by Nature Light and therefore not originate, but of the Essence of God the Father, as Very Light from Very Light. And the Life was the light of men.
9. v. 5 — And the Light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.
10. v. 6, 7 — There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bea…
11. v. 8 — He was not the Light, but was sent to bear witness of the Light.
12. CHAPTER VIII. That the Son of God alone is Very Light, the creature not at all, being participate of Light, as originate. 9 That was the true Light.
13. CHAPTER IX. That the soul of man does not exist prior to the body, nor is the embodiment as some say a consequence of former sins. Which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
14. v. 11 — He came unto His own and His own received Him not.
15. v. 12 — But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, to them t…
16. v. 13 — Which were begotten, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man b…
17. v. 14 — And the Word was made Flesh.
18. v. 15 — John bare witness of Him and cried.
19. v. 16 — And of His fulness have all we received.
20. v. 17 — And grace for grace, for the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus …
21. CHAPTER X. That the Only-Begotten is Alone by Nature the Son from the Father, as being of Him and in Him. 18 No man hath seen God at any time; the Only-Begotten God , Which is in the Bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.
22. v. 22, 23 — What sayest thou of thyself? I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.
23. v. 26 — I baptize with water.