Gregory of Nazianzus Adversus Eunomianos (Orat. 27) 6

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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. 6. 3 ακροατης] εξεταστης b
2. 1. γέννησιν. . .κ. κτίσιν] The one is an orthodox word and the other a heretical one ; but Gr. deprecates the using of both alike before a promiscuous public.
3. ib. θεὸν ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων] The Arians affirmed that the Son ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων ἐγένετο, but of course denied that He was in the full sense θεός. Gr., however, is speaking of the effect produced upon the heathen by the varying language of professing Christians.
4. 2. τομὴν κ. διαίρεσιν κ. ἀνάλυσιν] These are not to be taken (as Elias and others take them) as technical terms of theology ; nor are they strictly parallel to the first three accusatives after ἀκούει. The ἀκροατής hears οf ‘ begetting ’ and ‘creation’; he hears ’dissection and division and analysis.’
5. 4. καθίζομεν] as in I Cor. v 4.
6. 6. ἐπαινῶν] inasmuch as he attributes such actions to the gods.
7. 8. ὁ χθὲς κτλ.] Gr. does not mean that he no longer worships those gods, but rather that he has not worshipped them very long. The heathen is accustomed to making new gods.
8. 9. οὐχ ὑλικῶς] He cannot but put a material construction upon such language. Ἀμαθῶς will mean ‘grossly.’
9. 10. συνήγορον] He will turn what you say about God into an advocacy of his own deified passions.
10. 12. ταῖς φωναῖς τ. ἐπηρεάζομεν] The Eunomians ‘ maltreated these ’ by maintaining that, because the Son is begotten, the Father must have existed before Him. At the same time Gr. does not acquit his own party of a similar misuse of terms, as is seen by what follows, though in their case the misuse lay in a different direction.
11. 13. φίλ’. ἐν τοῖς ἡμετέροις] τοῖς ἤμ’. is prob. neuter, ‘ in our quarters ’ ’ in our ’; but it may be masc., ‘ among our ’ In either case, of course, it means, ’to adopt and use our system of ’ The term φιλοσοφία was early applied to Christianity. See Melito ap. Eus. Hist. Eccl. iv xxvi 7 ἢ καθ’ ἡμᾶς φιλοσοφία.