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On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth

De adoratione et cultu in spiritu et veritate · Cyril of Alexandria · early 5th c. (before 429) · treatise

Greek · domain: alexandrian · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo 'any,contains,"De adoratione et cultu"' returns five records: a 2021 De Gruyter volume that is Book 1 only, with Greek text and German translation ('De adoratione et cultu in spiritu et veritate, Buch 1: Einführung, kritischer Text, Übersetzung und Anmerkungen'), a German monograph on Cyril's theology of the cross, a Septuagint congress volume, and a 1638 Latin Opera: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,%22De%20adoratione%20et%20cultu%22&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A broader 'Cyril of Alexandria adoration' search returns six records, again with no English version: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Cyril%20of%20Alexandria%20adoration&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No Fathers of the Church, Ancient Christian Writers or Popular Patristics volume of De adoratione was located, and the Fathers of the Church series does contain Cyril volumes (Glaphyra, Festal Letters, Three Christological Treatises), so the absence is a real gap rather than a catalogue blind spot.

A long dialogue-form commentary on the Pentateuch, one of Cyril's largest exegetical works; only Book 1 has a modern-language (German) translation. The entry in 'translations' records that German partial version as the nearest thing to a modern rendering, not an English one. No open-access TEI text; Greek in Migne's Patrologia Graeca and the Sources chrétiennes programme. The 2021 De Gruyter volume is recorded here as evidence of the gap, not as a translation entry: it is Book 1 only and in German.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: open scan — 2 candidate(s). PG 68 is the only pre-modern edition; the 2021 De Gruyter Book-1 edition (Greek + German) is in copyright and not online. Two independent scans of the same Migne volume exist: the per-volume 'bim' item (full-resolution images, verified re-OCR route) and the bulk multi-book item (text layer only). The bulk text is unusable for Greek; the bim images are the ingestion target.

Scan / witnessFormatPagesRightsOCREvidence
Patrologiae Cursus Completus ... 1859: Vol 68 (= PG 68, Cyril, De adoratione, c…
internet-archive · bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_patrologiae-cursus-completus-_1859_68
pdf+jp2597public-domainnoneItem page HTTP 200; _page_numbers.json returns 597 leaves; djvu.txt HTTP 200 (3.22 MB) has 178 Greek code points in a 200k mid-text window (0.001), i.e. the Greek column is OCR'd as Latin look-alikes. Full-resolution pa…
Patrologia Graeca PDF Volumes, file 068.pdf / 068_djvu.txt
internet-archive · patrologia-volumes
pdf+djvu594public-domainnone068.pdf and 068_djvu.txt HTTP 200; mid-file Range sample (offset 1,509,213 of 3,353,808 bytes) has 0 Greek code points. Note the bulk item's /page/n*.jpg URLs are NOT per-volume addressable (the same 1190x1684 image is…

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Cyril of Alexandria "On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth" — 1 record(s); match basis author_title.

RecordCitation
De adoratione et cultu in spiritu et veritate, Buch 1 : Einführung, kritischer Text, Übersetzung und Anmerkungen
Kyrill von Alexandrien · 2021 · ger
Kyrill von Alexandrien. "De adoratione et cultu in spiritu et veritate, Buch 1 : Einführung, kritischer Text, Übersetzung und Anmerkungen." Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155815609203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-cyril-de-adoratione