Gregory of Nazianzus De Spiritu Sancto (Orat. 31) 21

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. 21. 1 ανακυκλοις b ‘Reg. b’ || 5 εντυχοντες] ἐντυγχάνοντες b ‘Colb. 3’ || 8 δηλώσωμεν aef || 10 εποικοδομουντες] οἰκοδομοῦντες acg
2. 1. τὸ ἄγραφον] Cp. § 1.
3. 2. οὐ ξένον τοῦτο] τοῦτο seems by comparison with § 1 to mean the Holy Spirit Himself, not the doctrine of His Godhead. So also περὶ τού. του below.
4. 3. τοῖς πάλαι] the O.T. writers; τοῖς νῦν, the Christian Church.
5. ib. παραγυμνούμενον] ‘revealed,’ ‘disclosed.’
6. 4. διειληφότων] ‘have discussed.’ Cp. iv 16, v 5.
7. 5. ἐντυχόντες] to ‘meet with,’ ‘come across’; so to ‘read.’ The word does not necessarily imply a casual, hasty perusal; cp. § 26.
8. 6. διασχόντες] Cp. ii 3, 31, ‘have penetrated beyond the letter.’
9. 7. ἀπόθετον] ‘put away,’ so ‘hidden’ like a treasure, = ἀπόκρυφον. See Thompson’s note on Plat. Phaedr. 252 B.
10. 9. ἐξ ἐπιδρομῆς] lit. ‘at a rush,’ i.e. ‘hastily.’
11. ib. τοῦ μὴ δοκεῖν] explains why Gr. will not attempt to go into the question at greater length.
12. 11. ἐπὶ θέμ’. ἀλλ’] Rom. xv 20. Because Basil and others had gone over the ground before.
13. 12. ὀνομαστί] The word appears to belong to both σαφῶς and πολλά. κὶς, and to qualify the word not τὸ ἄγ. πνεῦμα understood; ‘the fact that He is not very clearly, often, described in Scripture by title of “God”.’ But the expression is somewhat redundant.
14. 13. πρότερρον] under the earlier dispensation; ὕστ., under the later.
15. 15. λύσομεν…βλάβην] ‘will remove this disadvantage’; said a kind of irony, as if the opponent would recognise that it was a βλάβη.