THEOSISCyrill of Alexandria
The law demonstrates in another manner that what is different cannot unite; it is separated from shared communion. It is utterly irrational for a rational being to associate with an irrational one, engaging with the disparate and heterogeneous. In Exodus, it states, ‘Every cattle-keeper shall be put to death’ (Exodus 22:19); this is even more explicitly addressed in Leviticus: ‘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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The act of fellowship and, in a sense, a spiritual mingling with those with whom one should not engage—whose minds have been driven to the brink of irrationality—brings about death to both the offenders and those who willingly succumb to this molestation.