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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. 2 καὶ πάσαν] διὸ καὶ πάσαν e: ο καὶ ‘Reg. a duo Colb.’ || 4 ἱσταμένην] e ǁ 7 om ἅπερ d || ὡς] ισως ‘Reg. Cypr.’ || 8 α] ἅπερ d ΙΙ 9 om κάτω def 21. 14 προσβάλλοντες] προβ. c2 || 15 περιφερομεθα και πλανώμεθα] περιπλανωμεθα καὶ περιφερόμεθα f
2. 3. ἔσοπτρα κ. τ. αἰν.] 1 Cor. xiii 12.
3. 4. ἰνδάλμασιν] ‘figures,’ ‘repre- sentations.’
4. 5. περιττὸς κ. περίεργ.] Cp. i 1.
5. 7. ὑπῃνίσσετο ‘darkly intimated’; in John xvi 12.
6. 8. τρανωθησόμενα] Cp. § 4.
7. 9. χωρῆσαι τὸν κ.] John xxi 25. By a strange oversight, Gr. confounds the Forerunner with the Divine. φωνή, perh. with ref. to John i 23.
8. 10. διωρίζετο] ‘to define’; so ‘to affirm.’
9. 21. All abstract ruth is hard to attain with such instruments as we possess, but above all the truth about God. So Solomon and St Panl confessed; and David, who despaired of knowing even himself.
10. 14. προσβάλλοντες] Cp. § 16. Μετὰ τῶν αἰ., cp. §§ 12 § 26.
11. 18. τὸν νοῦν τυπ. τ. κατ.] ‘to have our minds fashioned by what we perceive.’
12. 19. δυσεφικτ.] ‘harder to come at’ (ἐφικνεῖσθαι).
13. 20. ἀντιλήψεις] From the general notion of ‘catching hold’ of a thing come the opposite meanings of ’helping’ (e.g. 1 Cor. xii 28), and (as here) of ‘objections,’ ‘difficulties.’ Plut. de Def. Orac. (11 438 D) has the expression ὡς ἔχοντα πολλὰς ἀντιλήψεις καὶ ὑπονοίας πρὸς τοὐναντίον.
14. 11 οὔπω] + δε e || 12 om ὂν c || μόνον] μόνων c2e ǁ 14 πολυπραγμοσύνη] + τῃ e
15. 1. ἐνιστάμενον] ‘obstruction.’
16. 2. ἐπέσχε κτλ.] ‘gnomic’ aorists: ‘it lets and hinders.’
17. 3. ῥυτῆρσιν] ‘reins’: ἀθρόως, suddenly, cp § 2.
18. 5. σοφισάμενος] 1 Kings iv 31 (LXX. 111 Kings iv 27 Swete) ascent never stops,’ i.e. i ἐσοφίσατο virkp π.
19. 6. τοὺς γεν. ἔμπροσθεν] 1 Kings iii 12. Καθ’ ἑαυτόν might be (as in § 19) ‘after his pattern’; but the connexion is in favour of ‘in his time.’
20. 7. καρδίας πλάτος] 1 Kings iv 29 (iv 25 Swete). Sw. reads χύμα καρδίας; and Gr.'s χύσις directly after seems to show that he read the same, πλάτος being his interpretation. Χύσις, ‘spread,’ ‘expanse.’
21. 9. ἰλιγγιᾷ] ‘reels.’
22. ib. τέλος τι π. σοφίας] ‘makes it as it were the end (perfection) of wisdom to find henv far it ὁ περὶ θ. λόγος) has escaped him.’ Gr. refers to such passages as Eccl. vii 23 foll., viii 17, and perh. xii 12 foll.
23. 13. κριμάτων] Rom. xi 33.
24. ib. στάσιν τῆς ἀν.] ‘that the ascent never stops,’ i.e. is endless.
25. 15. ἀεί τινος ὑποφ. τ. λ.] lit. ‘something remaining ever dimly disclosing itself.’
26. 16. ἴνα κ. αὐτός] By his exclamation, Gr. has dramatically put himself beside St P.
27. 17. περιγράφει τὸν λ.] ‘He concludes his discourse with astonishment.’