Gregorius Nazianzenus De Filio (Orat. 30) 16

ed. Arthur James Mason

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

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Current edition First1KGreek

De Filio (Orat. 30) (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. 30)

1. 2 του τινος ’Or. i ’ 16, 6 στησωμεθαc2 || 7 ’δε] δε] δη de2f || 10 om οτι cdfg
2. 16. Or perhaps He only means to refer this knowledge, like everything else which the Son possesses, to its absolute source in the Father. All expressions about His obedience and the cost of it evidently apply only to the nature which He assumed. We pass to the consideration of His many titles.
3. 8. ἐπὶ τὴν αἰτίαν] ’ referred back to the primary Cause? i.e. the Father. ther. This has already been done in the case of the Son's power ; it holds good of ’everything else' which the Son possesses ; they are not His, but the Father's, inasmuch as the Father alone is the source of them. So it may be, Gr. says. with our Lord's knowledge of great matters.
4. 10. τῶν καθ’ ἡμᾶς φ. τις] He means Basil, who tells Amphilochius (Epist. ccxxxvi) that this was the interpretation which he had heard ἐκ παιδὸς παρὰ τῶν πατέρων. The same is found in the Disp. c. Arium printed with the works of Athanasius § 27).
5. ib. μικρὸν ἐννοῆσαι] ‘ would see to some extent.' The observation holds true, even if we do not accept Basil's account of the particular passage μηδὲ ἐκείνως ἀναγνούς).
6. 11. ἢ ὡς δ́τι ö π.] ’ except in so far as He does so because the Father does.’
7. 12. τὸ συναγόμενον] Cp. § 12. The rgument is not very clear ; but the ὡς δῆλον appears to give the reason, not for the Son's knowing, but for the Son's knowing it from the Father. Nothing but the πρώτη φύσις can know, therefore the incarnate Son could not obtain the knowledge in any other way than from the Father.