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Arthur James Mason (Translator)

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De Spiritu Sancto (Orat. 31). Gregory of Nazianzus. Arthur James Mason (Translator). Germany. 2014.

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De Spiritu Sancto (Orat. 31) (Greek) (Gregory of Nazianzus. The Five Theological Orations. Mason, Arthur James, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1899.)

Notes on the current edition

De Spiritu Sancto (Orat. 31)

1. 3 παύση] παύσαι b ‘Or. I’ || 6 σοι] σε ace ‘quinque Reg.’ || 7 τὰ δηλα] ἄδηλα e1. 12. II λαβὼν ἔχεις df || 16 ’δει προσκυνεῖν bdf || 17 προσευξόμεθα acdefg || 18 υπερεντυγχανει] εντυγχ. c || 19 προσεύξομαι primo loco] + δε b: -ξωμαι (et in secundo) a
2. 5. καἰ ἐκ τῶν ἄνθρωπ’] ‘even human experience has shewn you the possibility of what we hold.’
3. 6. καλώς ἔχειν] ‘that that you had better,’ i.e. leave off contending.
4. 7. ἔγνωκας] ‘have made up your mind.’
5. 12. You say that the Spirit is not, in Scripture, an object of worship. It is at least ‘in in the spirit’ that we worship, and that which we worship ‘is Spirit.’ He is so entirely one with the object of worship, that worship addressed to the Father is equally addressed to the Holy Ghost. Again, you object that ‘all things were made through the Son,’ and therefore the Holy Ghost among them. No more, I answer, than the Father was. He was made at all. Accept humbly the docmind.’ trine of the unity of the Divine persons.
6. 12. ἀποδώσομεν ὕστερον] in the whole argument, beginning with § 21 and culminating in § 28.
7. 14. πνεῦμα γάρ, φησιν] John iv 24.
8. 16. τὸ γὰρ τί προσευξ.] Kom. viii 26.
9. 19. προσεύξ. τῷ πν.] I Cor. xiv 15.
10. 6 om τοῖς c || 7 φοβήσομαι a || II δείξας] δεῖξον df || τότε] καὶ τότε cdf || 14 ἀρνήσωμαι d || 17 ἀποστερεῖν υἱὸν de2f
11. 1. τὸ προσκ. τῷ πν] Gr. thinks that ‘worshipping or praying in or by the Spirit,’ which are clearly commanded, are in fact the bringing of prayer and worship by the Spirit to Himself. This is based upon the text first quoted, in which the object of the worship πνεῦμά ἐστιν. Not that Gr. definitely takes the first πνεῦμα in that text to be the Holy Ghost ; but on the principle that worship offered to one person of the Trinity is offered to all, his reasoning is correct, if his premisses are accepted. It must be owned, however, that he somewhat begs the question.
12. 7. πάντα διὰ τοῦ υἱ.] John i 3.
13. 11. τῳ υἱῷ δός] ‘assign assign Him to the Son’ as one of the things which were made through Him.
14. 12. τῷ περιληπτικῷ] ‘your comprehensive phrase will not help you.’
15. 16. κακῶς τιμῶν κατὰ] ‘wrongly honouring the Father at the expense of the Only-begotten.’
16. 18. οὐ γὰρ ὁμ. δῆμ’.] sc. τοῦ πνεύματος ὁ υἱός.
17. 19. μετὰ σεαυτοῦ] Cp. § 4 μετ’ ἐμοῦ.