Gregory of Nazianzus Adversus Eunomianos (Orat. 27) 1

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Adversus Eunomianos (Orat. 27). Gregory of Nazianzus. ed. Arthur James Mason. Germany. 2014.

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Adversus Eunomianos (Orat. 27) (Greek) (Gregory of Nazianzus. The Five Theological Orations. Mason, Arthur James, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1899.)

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Adversus Eunomianos (orat. 27)

1. 1. 2 ὑβρίστριαν] + καὶ παίδευσιν καὶ ἀκοὴν καὶ διάνοιαν bEl || 4 om τοις ημ...χαιροωτεσ acd
2. 1. Gr. complains of the verbosity and contentiousness of his opponents, unlike the brevity of St Paul. He wishes they would turn their attention to practice.
3. I. πρὸς τοὺς ἐν λόγῳ κομψοὺς ὁ λόγος] The Eunomians prided themselves on their dialectical skill. Πρὸς is not ‘ ’ but ‘ addressed to ’ ; ‘ My argument is addressed to those who are smart in ’ There is a shade of sinister suggestion in the word κομψός.
4. ib. ἀπὸ τῆς γρ.] It is not Gr.'s usual custom to take a text.
5. 2. ἰδοὺ κτλ.] Jer. 1 31 (LXX. xxvii 31 ). The words added in b and by Elias appear to be interpretative addition. But the omission of words clearly required by the sense a little below throws some doubt on the authority of acd when they omit these here. If genuine, the accusatives express the departments in which the Eunomians display their ὕβρις: ‘ Ο thou most proud — in training, and hearing, and dis- positon’ The · ἀκοὴν anticipates the following reference to St ’s words.
6. 3. τ. ἅκ. προσκνώμενοι] 2 Tim. iv 3. St ’s word is κνηθόμενοι. Gr. instinctively substitutes προσκν. to prepare more easily for τοῖς ἡμ. λόγοις, ‘ itching for our ’ Of course they ‘ itch ’ for them in a different sense from those of whom St Ρ. speaks.
7. 4. τ. χεῖρα] They are prepared to fight. Elias understands it of itching to write against Gr.
8. 5.βεβ. κενοφ. κτλ.] Ι Tim. vi 20; 2 Tim. ii 16 ; cf. 1 Tim. vi 4 and 2 Tim. ii 14.