Gregorius Nazianzenus De Theologia (Orat. 28) 28

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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. 8 ποταμοῖς] μους abcef || 14 om τὴν cdf 28. 17 προίη] προῄει e
πλοῦτον τοῦτον e
2. 1. τοῦτο] sc. τὸ πρόσταγμα.
3. 2. τὸν χέρσ’. ναυτ.] There is prob. no direct ref. to the shell-fish called a nautilus, which only bears that name because of its similarity to a man in a sailing boat. By ’the land ’’ Gr. means the land animal which nevertheless finds a home on the sea. At the same time the word ναυτίλος had become so exclusively poetical as applied to men and ships, and so recognised a name for the shell-fish, that the ad- dition of χ. was necessary to prevent a moment's mistake. Ἄγει sc. ἢ θάλασσα.
4. 4. deduct] Cp. ἑ 26. Χρείαις κ. ἐπ’. almost ’demand and supply.’
5. 8. ποταμοῖς] ἴθι the rivers, ’ not ‘with,’ in spite of Hab. iii 9.
6. 10. ἐπεξιούσης] ‘break out.’
7. 11. ἢ τῶν ὑδ. ‘how are the waters fed?’ The metaphor more ’luxuriant’ in Greek than in English, and Gr. proceeds, with an apology, to develope it. Some of them, he says, are ’watered from above,’ i.e. are fed by others (and this is the climax of the ’luxuriance’) ’drink with their roots? i.e. are fed by springs from under- ground. These last Gr. had learned from Arist. to be connected with the sea.
8. 28. The air, and all the pheno- mena of meteorology.
9. 16. καθ’ ὁδόν] ’in due order,’ ’methodically’; Plat. Rep. 435 Α.
10. 11 τινες δε] om ’δε ef || 13 τις] + ’δε e || 15 κρτουμενην]+ τὴν ’Reg. Cypr.’ || 17 ουτε] οὐδὲ abef ΙΙ απασαν] ἅπασι ’Reg. Cypr.’
11. 1. οὐκ ἀξίαις] ’by deserts’; Matt. v 45; or perh. ’ by differences of rank.’ Τύχαις, ‘by fortunes.’ ῾Ηλ., coming after ὄροις, may mean ’ages’ in the sense of a measurement of time, ’to certain generations.’
12. 2. τοῦ μάννα] Ex. xvi 18.
αὐταρκεῖ π.] ’freely taken in’; no leave has to be asked, and ἰσομ. τιμώμ. ’each ’s share is of equal ’’, lit. ’assessed at an equality οἱ partition.’
13. 5. εὐκαιρίαν] The air is said to the ’suitableness of seasons’ be- cause the suitableness of seasons de- pends upon atmospheric conditions.
14. 7. μεθ’ οὐ λόγος] ’with which (cp. § 26) we speak.’
15. 9. οὐ γὰρ συγχωρ.] ace. to Elias, directed against Arist. (presumably de Mund. 4).
16. 11. θησαυροὶ χιόνος] Job xxxviii 22.
17. ib. τίς ὁ τετοκώς κτλ.] Job xxxviii 28, 29.
18. 13. δεσμεύων υδ.] Job xxvi 8.
19. 14. τὸ μὲν ἱστάς] τὸ μὲν and τὸ δέ appear to be ’part’ and ’part’ of the water thus ’bound ’ In that case φύσιν is in app. to τὸ μέν.
20. 15. ἐπὶ πρόσωπονπ. τ. γ] Scripbe tural language, but not a definite quotation.
21. 16. ὁμοτίμως] Elias rightly refers to Matt, v 45.
22. 19. διαθήκης] Gen. ix 12.