Gregory of Nazianzus De Filio (Orat. 29) 3

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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Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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

Notes on the current edition

De Filio (Orat. 29)

1. 1 θαρρήσωμεν ab II 3 ὑπερερρύη] ὑπερρύη dfg || 4 πέρι] + τῆς f || IO om καὶ f 3. 13 πνεῦμα] + τὸ ἄγιον c ’Colb. I’ || 17 ει] + μὴ ’Coisl. 3’
2. 3. οἷον κρατήρ τις] The simile is used by Plato Tim. 41 D; but, as Jahn points out in his annotations Elias, in a different connexion. Gr. prob. refers to some Neoplatonic author.
3. 7. ἐπὶ τῶν ἠμ’. ὄρων] keeping to consecrated by Christian usage; cp. i 5.
4. 9. ὥς πού φησιν] John xv 26.
5. 3. The acts thus described are above and before time, although it is impossible to divest ourselves of ternporal notions in attenmpting to illustrate them. The Second and Third Persons are not posterior to the First point of time, though Their being springs out of His.
6. 11. ταῦτα] sc. τὸ γεννητόν and τὸ ἐκπορευόμενον. This is shewn by ὅτε ὁ πατήρ in the next line, ib. ὑπὲρ τὸ πότε] above and be yond a ’when.’
7. 13. οὐκ ἢν ὅτε οὐκ ἢν] He replies with the phrase so well known at the beginning of the Arian controlanguage versy.
8. ib. τοῦτο] sc. what is implied in οὐκ ἢν ὁτε οὐκ ἢν, eternal.
9. 19. ἔμφασιν] ’an image.’ In order to convey any notion of what is above time, it is impossible to avoid the employment of temporal imagery. Ἔμφασις is, however, used in rhetoric for an innuendo, a sugin gestion of something beyond what the words express; and this may be Gr.'s meaning here.