Dionysius

Footnotes

Introductory Note to Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria.

^[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.

^[738] Ex Athan., Ep. de decret. Nic. Syn., 4. 18.

From the Fourth Book.

^[739] Ex Athan., Ep. de decret. Nic. Syn., 4. 25. [P. 94, notes 1, 2, infra.]

^[740] Ps. xlv. 1.

^[741] Emanant. [P. 49, supra, and vol. iii. p. 299, this series.]

^[742] Sermonem. [So Tertullian, Sermo, vol. iii. p. 299, note 19.]