Gregory of Nazianzus De Spiritu Sancto (Orat. 31) 19

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.)

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De Spiritu Sancto (Orat. 31)

1. 3 γραμματι] πράγματι b || 5 λέων και] om καὶ g || 6 ενδημηγορων e || 7 τῆ ’δε φύσει bdf
2. 3. περιέχῃ τοῦ γρ.] ‘you are so attached to the letter of Scripture.’ The emendation τῷ πράγματι in the next clause is ingenious and tempting; but τῷ γράμματι will mean that in this instance they have the very letter of Scripture against them, — as he proceeds to shew.
3. 4. λάβε] seems to be an ironical invitation to prove the point, not= δέξαι i.e. ‘listen to my proofs.’
4. 5. εὐόδως πορεύεται] Pro v. xxx 29.
5. 8. δύο Χερουβὶμ] Ex. xxv 18, 19. If τῷ M. = ‘ by Moses,’ perh. the ref. is rather to Ex. xxxvii 7 ; but it may be the strict dat., ‘reckoned up singly to Moses.’
6. 10. ἀπερρηγμένα] ’so completely severed.’
7. 14. καἰ μᾶλλον γελ.] The same irony continued ; ‘I should be still more laughed at for my mode of numbering things together. ’ Matt. vi 24. Gr. does not observe that God and Mammon are not actually described as two masters, and that if they were, it would be ἃς masters that they would be numbered together, in which respect they are alike.
8. 19. If you tell me that numbers denote things of one nature and those only, then I will deny that you can say ‘three men,’ unless each three is an exact repetition of the others. St John was certainly not bound by your rule when he spoke of the three witnesses nor will it when you come to speak of things of different natures but bearing the same name.
9. 16. οἷς συνεκφ. καταλλ. κ. τ. ὀ.] The opponent explains that things ranged under a number, because they are of the same nature. he means cases where the noun is expressed and the numeral agrees with it (oἷς i.e. συναριθμουμένοις practically = ‘ the numeral’), like ‘three men,’ ‘three God.’ He does not mean that you can never lump together under a neuter numeral heterogeneous objects as so many ‘things.’ This, he says, is not a connumeration.
10. 19. 1 καὶ θεοι] om καὶ b || 5 παυλοι... πέτροι transp. def || 6 λέγονται ace || 7 ἀπαιτήσωμεν a || 10 ἐν] ἔπι f || πνεῦμα] + καὶ b || ὕδωρ] + καὶ b || 15 προθεις] προσθεὶς e || 16 om σὴς aeg
11. 2. τίς γὰρ ἢ ἀντίδοσις;] This is explained by the words below, ἀδικήσεις, μὴ διδοὺς ὅπερ εἴληφας; It is Gr.’s reply to the objector. ‘What,’ he asks, ‘shall I make you give me in return?’ The γὰρ implies a suppressed ‘Take care!’
12. ib. τοῦτο νομοθ. ἐστι] ‘This,’ Gr. retorts, ‘is to legislate for Ian- guage, not to state the facts with regard to it.’ At that rate, he can refuse to admit that Peter and Paul and John are three beings of the same nature ; he may say that unless all the peculiarities of are exactly reproduced, so that there are three Peters, there is not sufficient correspondence between Peter and the others to warrant their being brought under a single number as three men.
13. 6. γενικωτέρων] ‘generic’ as opexplanied posed to εἰδικός ‘specific.’ Gr. puts both words in the comp., because he does not use them in a strict sense.
14. 9. τρεῖς εἶναι τοὺς μ.] I John v 8.
15. 13. μὴ καταλλ. ἔχων ἀπ’. ] he coines forward without putting his words in grammatical agreement.’ ᾿Αρρενικῶς, ‘in the ’; οὐδετέρως, ‘in the meut.’