Gregorius Nazianzenus De Filio (Orat. 30) 1

ed. Arthur James Mason

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De Filio (Orat. 30). Gregorius Nazianzenus. ed. Arthur James Mason. Germany. 2014.

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De Filio (Orat. 30) (Greek) (Gregory of Nazianzus. The Five Theological Orations. Mason, Arthur James, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1899.)

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De Filio (Orat. 30)

1. 1. Ι ἐπειδὴ] ἔπει ’δε be || σοι] σου b || 2 τῆ] ἐν τῆ bee ‘Reg. a’ || 3 πάρα] ἄπο b || 6 om μὲν b
2. 1. We have gone rapidly through the Eunomian objections, especially those taken from Scripture, and have laid down a general canon for the interpretation of the texts. We will now take the texts seriatim.
3. 1. στροφάς] Cp. iii 16. πλακὰς is likewise a wrestling metaphor.
4. 2. διεσείσαμεν] Διασείειν is to ‘shake to pieces,’ used of a examination. Plut. de Gen. Socr. 580 D διερωτῶν καὶ διασείων τὸν Εὐθύφρονα. There seems to be no connexion with the preceding metaphors.
5. 4. τοῦ γρ. ἱερόσυλοι] explained by the next clause, τὸν νοῦν..,κλἐπτ. The ‘letter’ is like a temple, which the sacrilegious heretic robs of its ‘meaning.’
6. 5. σφετερίζονται] ‘take possession of.’
7. 10. τῷ νέῳ . . . ‘A δάμ] The phrase is not free from danger. An ἱερόσυλος τοῦ γράμματος might make out that the νέος ’Α. was, in ’s view, a different person from the Divine Person implied in τῆ θεότητι. Cp. iii 18, 19. It must be remembered that the Nestorian heresy had not yet been formulated.
8. ib. θεῷ παθητῷ] a daring oxymoron. Gr. would of course deny that the Godhead of Christ was subjected to suffering, though the Divine Person was so subjected, in virtue of the nature which He assumed.