Gregory of Nazianzus De Filio (Orat. 29) 13

ed. Arthur James Mason

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De Filio (Orat. 29). Gregory of Nazianzus. ed. Arthur James Mason. Germany. 2014.

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De Filio (Orat. 29) (Greek) (Gregory of Nazianzus. The Five Theological Orations. Mason, Arthur James, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1899.)

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De Filio (Orat. 29)

1. 13. 4 εἰ ’δε πέπαυται df || 15 λογος] ὄρος ’tres Colb.’ II 16 om καὶ c 17 μὴ λέγεσθαι] μηδὲ λ. df
2. 1. τῶν ἀφύκτων] i.e. which they consider to be so.
3. 3. καί ποτε παύσεται] ‘and some day He will stop,’ viz. when τελεία ἡ γέννησις. This is more pointed than to make πότε interrogative.
4. 6. π,ρὸ πάντων β.] Prov. viii 25.
5. 9. ἀποφανοῦνται] ’will they shew to be the case.’
6. 12. οὐκἄραἢρκται κ.αὐτοὐςτὸπ.] Therefore the thing which zuill one day stop can never according to them have had a beginning.’ So Gr. turns their logic against them.
7. 13. ὁ μὲν οὖν ἠμ’. λ.] sc. λέγει.
8. 15. εἷς λόγος ἐστί] ’one ’ or ‘principle of existence’; and so, from the observer’s point of view, ‘definition.’ What is implied may be seen by the corresponding words in the apodosis, οὐσίαν κ. φύσιν κ. κλῆσιν. The meaning is not the same as in ὁ ἡμέτερος λ. just before, nor has it any relation to λέγεσθαι directly after.
9. ib. ὃ μὲν ἂν μετέχῃ τ. λ.] ‘what. ever shares that characteristic principle, is rightly called by that name.’ Tοῦτο, however, is grammatically the subject of λῆ., not the predicate.
10. 17. οὕτω δέ] The ‘apodotic’ force of δέ is well known. It recurs again in the next section.