Gregory of Nazianzus De Spiritu Sancto (Orat. 31) 28

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. 28. 7 μικρῶ πρόσθεν] μικρῶν ἔμπροσθεν b μικρὸν ἔμπροσθεν ‘tres Colb.’ || 14 χρυσῆ τις] χρυσῖτις a
2. 28. Let this be our position then, to worship in one Godhead three undivided Persons. Woe to him zoho does not hold it, or who shifts with the public opinion of the times. If the Holy Ghost gives us the divine nature, He must needs be an object of worship, and in the full sense divine.
3. 3. ἔχω μὲν οὕτω] ‘That is how I stand’: explained, with no construction, by σέβειν.
4. 4. θεὸν τὸν πατέρα] ‘the Father as God.’ Our familiar ‘God Father, God the Son,’ is a of expression peculiar to English Christianity.
5. 6. τῶν μικρῷ πρ. θεοφόρων] ACC. to Elias, the ref. is to Greg. Thaumaturgus, who, he says, uses these words in his ‘Apocalypse.’ The work is not now extant. Θεοφόρων, ‘inspired’ (2 Pet. 121).
6. 7. μὴ ἴδοι ἑωσφ. ἀν’. ] Job iii 9. The imprecation must be considered in the same sense as the anathemas of the Councils.
7. 8. ἐκεῖθεν] of heaven.
8. 9. συμφ. τοῖς καιροῖς] ‘goes with the current of the times.’
9. 11. σαθρῶς] prob. means (in accordance with συμφ. τοῖς καιροῖς) ‘weakly,’ not ‘corruptly.’ Cp. i 3. The timeserver ‘has but weak resolution in regard to the things of most importance.’
10. 12. θεοῖ] ‘make make α God of me’; iii 19.
11. ib. εἰ δὲ προσκ., πῶς οὐ σεπτόν] Evidently Gr. feels σφιν to be a higher word than the mere external προσκ.; it is already implied in οὐδὲ προσκ. in the line above; but the distinction is not always observed.
12. 14. ἢ χρυσῆ τις] in rough apposition to ἐν. It is difficult to decide between this reading and χρυσῖτις, which has the authority of the best MS. The pronuntialion being identical, it seems natural to choose the rarer word ; but on the other hand the scribe of ‘a’ may have been thrown out by the somewhat unusual combination of ἢ with τις. Cp. ii 19 ἢ αὔρα τις ὀλίγη.