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

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. 1 ἔπι] ἐκ ‘Reg. Cypr.’ || 5 μὴ] + τα be2 || 7 παραδειχθωσιν ‘Reg. Cypr.’ || 9 τὸ μεν...το ’δε] τὼ μεν...τω ’δε ‘tres Colb.’ 31. 10 om πρὸς εμαιυτον ‘Reg. a’ || 12 om του d || 13 παραβαλεῖν] παραλαβεῖν b || 14 om γὰρ b || φεύγει] + με cdfg || 15 πλεῖον] πλέον cde2f || om με df
2. 1. ἔμψυχοι] ‘vivid,’ ‘striking.’
3. ib. τὰς ἐπὶ τῶν ῥ. μ.] ‘the texts in so many words.’ In § 29 they for the most part only given allusively. What Gr. means by ἐπὶ τῶν ῥ may be seen in iii 17.
4. 2. ὅσα δὲ κἀνταῦθα] i.e. as well as in the case of the Son. See iii 18.
5. 3. δίδοσθαι] e.g. Luke xi 13 ἀποστ., Luke xxiv 49, Gal. iv 6 μερίς., Heb. ii 4; χάρισμα, 2 Tim. i 6; δώρημα (δωρεά), John iv 10, Acts viii 20; ἐμφύς., John xx 22; ἐπαγγ. Luke xxiv 49, Acts i 4 ; ὑπερέντευξις (cp. iv 14), Rom. viii 26.
6. 6. ἀνενεκτέον] from ἀναφέρω, ‘must be referred to the primal Cause, in order that it may be shewn from whom He proceeds.’
7. 7. παραδεχθῶσιν] the correlative to παραδίδοσθαι ; ‘that men might not receive the polytheistic doctrine of three separate Sources, or First Principles.’
8. 9. τὸ μὲν τῷ προσώπῳ] lit. ‘it counts for the same in impiety, whether you join like Sabellius, or disjoin like the Arians, — the former in the person, the latter in the natures.’ Gr. seems instinctively to say τῷ προσώπῳ, not τοῖς προσώποις, because Sabellianism reduces the persons to one, — if indeed any personality can be said to remain.
9. 31. Illustrations of the doctrine of the Trinity are wholly inadequate ; like mouth, spring, and stream.
10. 10. ὡς ἔγ. π.] ‘How many things!’
11. 11. πανταχόθεν] Cp. πολυπρ. ii 9.
12. ib. πανταχόθεν] where the English mode of thought would have expected πανταχόσε.
13. 13. ᾦ τινὶ χρὴ τῶν κ.] ‘to what earthly thing I might compare.’
14. 14. τὸ πλεῖον] ‘the the most improtant part escapes me, leaving me below with my illustration.’
15. 15. ὀφθαλμόν] The context makes it unquestionable that Elias is right in interpreting the word to mean what is called ὀπή in James iii 11, — the ‘mouth’ out of which the spring issues. No other example of this usage seems to be known; but Gr.’s own language in his poem about the Holy Ghost (iii 60) leaves no room for doubt. He there rejects the same comparison of πόρος, πηγή, ποταμὸς μέγας, ἐν τε ῥέεθρον. It is just possible that Gr. was aware that an ‘eye’ is the ordinary word in Hebrew for a spring; but in any case the metaphor is so natural that it is prob. an accident that we do not find it oftener.