Gregory of Nazianzus De Spiritu Sancto (Orat. 31) 2

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. 2. 2 του υἱοῦ] OM του cd || 3 om οἱ e || 5 αὐτοῖς ἐστιν ce || 7 βρωμάτων] ζητηματων b
2. 2. The enquiry about the Holy Ghost is difficult. Controversialists defeated over the Son attack the Holy Ghost the more eagerly. Good Christians, sick of argument, wish the enquiry left alone. But we must try. I shall not discuss the meaning of ‘ holy ’ and of ‘ Spirit, ’ of of the two words together. That has been done by others.
3. 3. οἱ ἄνθρωποι] The clause χρὴ γάρ τι κτλ., as well as the opposed ἀλλ’ ὅτι καὶ ἡμεῖς, shows that Gr. does not mean 'men,' including good Christians who dislike controversy, but ’the men,' i.e. his opponents. Their very failure, and the exhaustion of their arguments about the Son ἀποκαμόντες), make them the more keen in their attack upon the Spirit.
4. 6. ἀποκναισθέντες] Cp. i 2.
5. 7. κακοσίτοις] ’squeamish about their diet.’
6. ib. ot ἐπειδὰν κτλ.] The MSS. appear to give no sign of any other reading, but the grammar is in hopeless confusion. The simplest remedy would be to strike out οἳ before ἐπειδάν, and to insert it before πρὸς πάντα. Otherwise we must suppose that some words have fallen out after ἀηδισθῶσι, such as πάντα ἀποστρέφονται, followed by ἡμεῖς οὖν to begin a new sentence. The required sense is plain, though it cannot be got out of the present text : that as people of delicate stomach, who have had something offered them which they dislike, turn against food in general, so we, disgusted with the Eunomian arguments about the Son, are disinclined to listen to arguments of any kind about the Spirit, or indeed on any religious subject.
7. 9. ὁ λόγος δραμεῖται] 1 Thess. iii 1. As, however, ὁ λόγος is here ’the ’ and not directly ’the word of ’ Gr. shrinks from making it the subject of δοξασθήσεται, as in St Paul.
8. 11. ποσαχῶς] in how many different senses the words πνεῦμα and ἄγιος are used in Scripture.
9. 13. μαρτυριῶν] ’ the texts that bear upon the investigation.’