Gregorius Nazianzenus De Theologia (Orat. 28) 17

ed. Arthur James Mason

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

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Current edition First1KGreek

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

Notes on the current edition

De Theologia (Orat. 28)

1. 1 αγον...ακωλυτον] ὕπο τὴν ἄληκτον φορὰν καὶ ἀκώλυτον ἄγαγον ‘Reg. Cypr.’ || 10 om συμφυτος...και πάσι b || 12 λέγωμεν] -ομεν be
2. 2. λόγον ἐνθείς] Gr. does not mean (like Plato) that the universe is conscious of the law by which it acts.
3. 3. διεξάγεται] seems simply to mean ‘is conducted.’ Cp. in i 12 διὰ κύκλου τινὸς εὐθύνων καἰ διεφτητι ἄγων τὸν ἀπάντα κόσμον.
4. 5. τῷ αὐτομάτω ‘to chance.’
5. 10. πᾶσι σύμφυτος] notexactly = ἔμφυτος, but ‘naturally bound up with’; like συνημμένος (from τειν) just after.
6. 17. Hereafter we shall know as we are known; here, the most privileged attain to a knowledge which is only relatively great.
7. 15. ἀλλ’ εἰ μέν] but whether man will ever find.’
8. 19. τῷ οἰκείῳ] ‘with that to wh it belongs’: Vaughan's ‘spirits fair kindred ’ Cp. § 12 sub fin.