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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. 14. 16 ἐξαπάτης] -τησεως be 15. 18 θέοις] θεοὺς de || 20 απολογιαν ταύτην ce
2. 2. κατὰ τὸ ποιὸν ἢ ποσὸν τ. κ. ] It is hard to see what Gr. means by this phrase. Elias gives an elabo- rate double explanation which only shews how much it puzzled him. Prob. by τὸ ποσόν Gr. means ’the ’ of motion,—the planets e.g. moving at a different ‘rate’ from the fixed stars; while τὸ ποῖον would include their conjunctions.
3. 5. ὁ τι τύχοιεν ἔκ. τ ὁρ.] τῶν ὁρ. depends on ὅ τι; ἕκ. is in app. the subj. of τύχ.; ‘any visible any visible ob- ject which they happened individn- ally’ to select.
4. 6. προστῇς.] Cp. § 1.
5. 8. περιπαθέστεροι] ‘more emo- tional.’
6. ib. τοὺς ἀπελθόντας] Cp. Wisd. xiv 15 f. The καὶ couples τιμῶντες κτλ. to τῶν οἰκ., not to σωματικ.
7. 10. τῆς πρ. φύσεως] Cp. ἑ 13.
8. 12. χρόνῳ τὸ ἔθος κτλ.] Wisd. xiv 16 εἶτα ἐν χρόνῳ κρατυνθὲν τὸ ἀσεβὲς ἔθος ὡς νόμος ἐφυλάχθη.
9. 15. προσλαβ. τ. κ. μῦθον] Gr. adopts the Euemerist view of my- thology.
10. 15. Some deify their own pasto sions, and end in utter degradation. The Evil One deceives them into worshipping himself as God.
11. 17. καἰ τὰ πάθη] Cp. i 6.
12. 18. θεοῖς ἔτ’.] set gods over them.
13. 2 ἔκρυψαν] ἀπέρριψαν ‘Reg. Cypr.’ ΙΙ 3 om τον ‘Or. I’ || 7 οἱ γε] ὅτε 8 τιμὰν τοῦτο] τοῦτο τιμὰν d: τιμὰν τούτους ‘Reg. Cypr.’ ǁ 14 πότερον] -ρων d ’tresColb.’ || 17 προεστήσαντο] προετιμήσαντο ‘Reg. Cypr.’ ΙΙ 20 πλανωμενον] -ων b || 21 περισπάσῃ] επισπαση b
14. 2. τοῦτο συνετῶς μόνον] Α grimly humorous parenthesis: to bury them under ground was the only sensible part of the arrange- ment.
15. 4. τῶν πλασμάτων) ‘these coun- terfeits.’ Gr. means the personifi- cations of the passions, not (as in ἑ 14) the images of them; of the images he has yet to speak.
16. 5. ἐξουσίαν κ. αὐτονομίαν] Cp. for ἐξ. § 8: for αὐτὸν. § 8: ‘arbitrary license.’
17. 10. ἤδη δέ] like iam for mox. Κνώδαλα, ‘monsters.’
18. ib. τετραπ. κ ἑρπ.] Cp. Rom. i 23; Wisd. xi 15 (16) ἄλογα ἑρπετὰ κ. κνώδαλα εὐτελῆ.
19. 15. τῶν λατρ.] so. δεῖ καταφρονεῖν.
20. 16. χάριν θ. δεξ.] Gr. is using the word in a free and untechnical sense.
21. 19. οἶα τ. π] predicate. The constr. is τοῦτο τ. σόφ’. ἦν τοιοῦτο] οἶα τ. π.
22. 20. παραλαβών] i 7 παρ᾿ ἠμῶν. . . λαμβάνει.