THEOSISCyrill of Alexandria
The law demonstrates in another manner that what is dissimilar cannot be united, does not come together, and is separated from shared community. It is profoundly irrational for a rational being to associate with an irrational one, mingling with the dissimilar and disparate. In Exodus, it is stated, ‘Every cattle-keeper shall be put to death’ (Exodus 22:19); even more explicitly in Leviticus, it says, ‘Whosoever shall mingle with cattle shall be put to death, and the cattle shall be killed. If a woman go to any beast to copulate with it, kill the woman and the beast: let them be put to death’ (Leviticus 20:15-16).
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This signifies that fellowship and a form of spiritual mingling with those one should not associate with, especially when their minds have regressed to utter irrationality, result in death for both the initiators of such acts and for those who become willingly entangled.