This volume in the Library of Christian Classics offers fresh translations of selected works by Cyril of Jerusalem and Nemesius of Emesa.

Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works--each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the church...

Introduction

This book is life not literature. Its origin is the heart rather than the head. It grows out of convictions, struggles and prayers to know and live the right life. It represents faith in God and victory through faith. The chapters have appeared in religious and other papers. Many, in this form, have had wide circulation. They are introduced here essentially unchanged.

The writer regards them as a series of tracts...