Dionysius

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Introductory Note to Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria.

^[717] The quotation runs thus: καὶ πάντα κατὰ τὴν αὐτοῦ πρόσταξιν πέφηνε καλά. Eusebius adds the remark here: “These passages have been culled by me out of a very large number composed against Epicurus by Dionysius, a bishop of our own time.” [Among the many excellent works which have appeared against the “hopelessly blinded” Epicureans of this age, let me note Darwinism tested by Language, by E. Bateman, M.D. London, Rivingtons, 1877.]

III.—From the Books Against Sabellius. On the Notion that Matter is Ungenerated.

^[718] In Eusebius, Præpar. Evangel., book vii. ch. 19.

^[719] Eusebius introduces this extract thus: “And I shall adduce the words of those who have most thoroughly examined the dogma before us, and first of all Dionysius indeed, who, in the first book of his Exercitations against Sabellius, writes in these terms on the subject in hand.” [Note the primary position of our author in the refutation of Sabellianism, and see (vol. v.) the story of Callistus.]

^[720] παθητήν.

^[721] πρὸς τοὺς ἀθεωτάτους πολυθέους.

IV.—Epistle to Dionysius Bishop of Rome.

^[722] Fragments of a second epistle of Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria, or of the treatise which was inscribed the “Elenchus et Apologia.” [A former epistle was written when Dionysius (of Rome) was a presbyter.]

From the First Book.

^[723] And in what follows (says Athanasius) he professes that Christ is always, as being the Word, and the Wisdom, and the Power.

^[724] Prov. viii. 30.

^[725] John iv. 24.

^[726] Scil. Wisdom.

^[727] Wisd. vii. 25.

From the Same First Book.

^[728] From Athan., Ep. de decret. Nic. Syn., 4. 18. [See remarks on inevitable discrepancies of language and figurative illustrations at this formative period, vol. iv. p. 223.]

From the Second Book.

^[729] Ex Athan., Ep. de decret. Nic. Syn., 4. 17.

From the Same Second Book.

^[730] Ibid., 4. 20.

^[731] Rom. ii. 13; James iv. 12. The Greek word ποιητής meaning either maker or doer, causes the ambiguity here and below.

^[732] Isa. v. 7.

^[733] Athanasius adds (ut supra, 4. 21), that Dionysius gave various replies to those that blamed him for saying that God is the Maker of Christ, whereby he cleared himself.

From the Same Second Book.

^[734] John i. 1. [For ῥημα, see vol. ii. p. 15, this series.]

^[735] Ex Athan., Ep. de decret. Nic. Syn., 4. 25. [P. 94, notes 1, 2, infra.]

^[736] John i. 1. [For ῥημα, see vol. ii. p. 15, this series.]

^[737] Prov. viii. 30.

From the Third Book.

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