Gregorius Nazianzenus De Theologia (Orat. 28) 12

ed. Arthur James Mason

De Theologia (Orat. 28). Gregorius Nazianzenus. ed. Arthur James Mason. Germany. 2014.

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De Theologia (Orat. 28) (Greek) (Gregory of Nazianzus. The Five Theological Orations. Mason, Arthur James, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1899.)

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De Theologia (Orat. 28)

1. 12. 9 ἀποπτύεσθαι] -εται ‘Or. Ι’ || 13 χώρησαι] + καὶ e || 19 om το ef
2. 12. Perhaps one reason for difficulty of knowing God properly is to make us value the knowledge; another, to save us from pride, or to enhance the reward of earnest search. In any case, the infirmity of our bodily nature ttecessarily colours all our ideas of God.
3. 1. δι’ ἄλλας αἰ.] other than those which he is about to allege.
4. 2. ἀνεξιχν. ... κριμάτων] Cp. Rom. xi 33. The form of the sen- tence is quite general, and may in- clude both angelic beings and (though somewhat ironically) privi- human beings also.
5. 4. ἐν ἴχν. ἀβ. περιπ.] Job xxxviii 16 (LXX.).
6. 6. τῷ ῥᾳδίῳ τῆς κτ.] ‘lightly the gotten, lightly spent.’
7. 8. μᾶλλον κρατεῖσθαι] ‘the more firmly held.’
8. 10. τὸ μὴ πρόχειρον] The very fact that the benefit is not too easily attained is itself a benefit.
9. 12. ἑωσφόρῳ] Is. xiv. 12.
10. 13. χωρῆσαι, ‘take in.’
11. ib. κατέναντι κ. π. τρ] Job xv 25. Trax is to lift up the neck, like a rearing horse.
12. 15. ἐκεῖθεν] ‘on yonder side’ death: cp. i 8.
13. 19 τῶν Αἶγ’. κ. τ. ‘Εβ.] Ex. xiv 20. That cloud was only an obleged struction on the Egyptian side of it.
14. 20. ὃ ἔθετο σκότος] ‘the the darkness which He ’’ etc. Ps. xvii (xviii) 12.