A. The Anastasis, that is, the Church upon the site of the Holy Sepulchre; where S. Cyril delivered his last five Lectures. (Lect. xviii. 33.)

The Holy Sepulchre was within a stone's cast of the top of Golgotha, on the southern side of the hill. It originally consisted of two caves, (Lect. xiv. 9.) an inner and an outer, of which the latter was destroyed by Constantine. The former, which he left, and, as it would appear, (vid. above note a on Lect. xiv. 9.) cut off from the main body of the rock, is shaped round outside like a horseshoe with the circular part towards the West, and is entered by the East. Inside it remains apparently in its ancient form of a trapezium; the roof can be touched with the hand, and on the North is an opening in the face of the rock, where our Lord's body seems to have been placed. The stone which had been placed at the mouth of the cave lay in S. Cyril's time near the Sepulchre whether within or without. (Lec'. xiii. 39.) The Church built over the Holy Sepulchre was circular.

B. Golgotha or Calvary, the place of our Lord's Crucifixion.

The whole mount, including the site of the sacred buildings, was sometimes called Golgotha. (Vid. Lect. iv. 10. 14. xvi. 4.) Sometimes only its top where the Crucifixion actually took place, which was to the north of the Basilica of the Holy Cross. (Lect. xiii. 4.) It was without the walls of the ancient city, to the north of Mount Sion, and about a mile and a half to the West of the Mount of Olives; and in S. Cyril's time it was a wild desolate spot, some traces remaining of the garden in which the Sepulchre was situated. (Lect. xiv. 5.)

C. The Basilica of Constantine, or Church of the Holy Cross, (Euseb. Laud. C. 9.) called also the Martyrium or Testimony, as being built close upon and in memory of our Lord's Passion; where S. Cyril delivered his first eighteen Lectures.

The Basilica of the Holy Cross, lay to the West of the Holy Sepulchre, being connected with it by a court open above, paved with choice marble, and bounded on all but the west side with a portico. It lay higher than the court, from which it seems to have been entered by steps; and there were three doors at the entrance, through which the Holy Sepulchre and the summit of Golgotha were seen. Porticos ran along the north and south, and the Altar was at the West end.

a. The Holy Sepulchre, with the entrance on the East. b. The open Court connecting the Anastasis or Church of the Holy Sepulchre, with the Basilica of the Holy Cross. c. Steps up to the Basilica.

d. Entrances.

e. Ambo, where was the place of reading Scripture and preaching.

f. Altar.

g. Bishop's Throne.

h. Spring of water for the Baptistery.

CATECHETICAL LECTURES

OF

S. CYRIL.

LECTURES ADDRESSED TO CANDIDATES FOR BAPTISM DURING LENT, IN THE BASILICA OF THE HOLY CROSS.

INTRODUCTORY LECTURE.

Page 1.

[Delivered in full Church, and therefore perhaps on a Sunday.]

LECTURE I.
Page 10.

ON THE PURPOSE OF MIND NECESSARY FOR BAPTISM.

Isaiah i. 16-19.

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.

[Probably in the first week.]

LECTURE II.
Page 14.

ON THE POWER OF REPENTANCE FOR THE REMISSION OF SIN.

Ezekiel xviii. 20-23.

The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed,

and keep all My statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him; in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

[Probably in the first week.]

LECTURE III.

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ON HOLY BAPTISM.

Romans vi. 3, 4.

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into His death? Therefore we are buried with Him by Baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

[Probably in the first week.]

LECTURE IV.

Page 34.

ON THE TEN POINTS OF FAITH.

Colossians ii. 8.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

[Probably in the first week.]

LECTURE V.

Page 52.

ON FAITH.

Hebrews xi. 1, 2.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen: for by it the elders obtained a good report.