The MSS give the following titles to these Lenten pre-baptismal instructions:
1 Introduction
2 Concerning repentance, the remission of sins and the Adversary
3 Concerning baptism
4 On the Ten Dogmas
5 Concerning faith (this instruction begins with an account of the virtue of faith, and ends with the rite of the Presentation of the Faith, i.e. the Creed; the remaining thirteen instructions are explanations of the articles of the Creed)
6 Concerning the unity of God's rule, on ‘I believe in one God’ and concerning heresies
7 On ‘the Father’
8 On ‘Almighty’
9 On ‘Maker of heaven and earth, of all things seen and unseen’
10 On ‘and in one Lord, Jesus Christ’
11 On ‘the Only-begotten Son of God who was born of the Father as true God before all ages, through whom all things were made’
12 On ‘who became incarnate and became a human being’
13 On ‘who was crucified and buried’
14 On ‘and he rose from the dead on the third day, and ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father’
15 On ‘Who will come in glory to judge the living and the dead, of whose kingdom there will be no end’
16 On ‘and in one Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, who spoke in the prophets’
17 What remains concerning the Holy Spirit
18 On ‘and in one holy catholic church, and in the resurrection of the flesh, and in everlasting life’ (N. 22 shows that this clause was preceded by the words: ‘and in one baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins’)
It can be seen that the baptismal Creed in use in Jerusalem was similar to the Nicene Creed, though without the anti-Arian formulas. Some MSS insert the Nicene Creed itself at the end of 18.12; but this is probably a scribal addition.
Cyril gives an overview of all his teaching in Catechesis 4. From the rest of the series we have concentrated especially on addresses concerning Christ because of their relevance to the setting in Jerusalem.
