Gregory of Nazianzus De Spiritu Sancto (Orat. 31) 30

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. 5 ταὐτὸ] ταὐτὸν cdef: τοῦτο ‘Or. Ι’ 30. 8 πρὸς γε] προσέτι γε b: προσέτι ‘Reg. a’ || 10 αὐτὸ] αὐτὸν def || 14 κηρύσσειν] κηρύττουσι b ‘Reg. a’ ||
2. 16 διδαξοντος] δικάζοντος ‘Reg. Cypr.’
3. 2. παντοδύναμον ... λεπτοτάτων] Wisd. vii 23. The ‘understanding, pure, and most subtle spirits’ in Wisd. ‘through’ which the Spirit ‘goes,’ are, in Gr.’s opinion (no doubt correct), not only ‘the angelic Powers,’ but also the spirits of prophets and apostles. These the Holy Spirit penetrates κατὰ ταὐτό, ‘simultabeously,’ although they are distributed in many different places, which is a proof that He is infinite.
4. 30. Such sayings involve His Godhead. All language of α different kind is explained by the principle of referring all to the Father as the First Cause.
5. 8. οἱ ταῦτα λέγοντες] viz. the sacred writers who used such Ianguage about the Holy Spirit.
6. ib. πρός γε] adv. ‘besides.’
7. 9. οἶον ἄλλον θ.] The words have a dangerous sound; ‘as it were another God.’ But Gr. does not mean to call Him so. He means that to call Him a Paraclete at all, in the same sense as is equivalent to calling Him God.
8. 10. μόνην εἰδότες ἀσυγχ] Matt. xii 31 foll.
9. 11. στηλιτεύσαντες] The Greek method of proclaiming something to the honour or infamy of a person was to ‘post’ it on a στήλη or post in some publc place. Hence a person subjected to such infamy is described in class. Greek as στηλίτῆς; from whence comes the στηλιτεύειν.
10. 12. ἐψεύσ…ὡς θεόν] Acts v 3 foll.
11. 14. ὡς λίαν] ‘since you really are a very stupid person.
12. 15. πόρρω τοῦ πν] like ἀλλότριοι τοῦ πν. in § 29, ‘unspiritual.’