Gregory Thaumaturgus

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Introductory Note to Gregory Thaumaturgus.

^[158] ἀκριβεῖς, for which Ger. Vossius gives εὐσεβεις, pious.

^[159] [A noteworthy estimate of Latin by a Greek.]

^[160] εἰ καὶ βουλητόν, etc., for which Hœschelius gives οὔτε βουλητόν, etc. The Latin version gives, non enim aliter sentire aut posse aut velle me unquam dixerim.

Argument II.—He Essays to Speak of the Well-Nigh Divine Endowments of Origen in His Presence, into Whose Hands He Avows Himself to Have Been Led in a Way Beyond All His Expectation.

^[161] φαρμάκων.

^[162] χαρακτῆρας τῶν τῆς ψυχῆς τύπων.

^[163] ἀσπασάμενοι ἡδέως, ἐπεὶ καὶ περιφρονήσαντες. The passage is considered by some to be mutilated.

^[164] The text is, ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἐκ τρίτων αὖθις ἄλλως κωλύει,, etc. For ἄλλως Hœschelius gives ἄλλα δή, Bengel follows him, and renders it, sed rursum, tertio loco, aliud est quod prohibet. Delarue proposes, ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἓν τρίτον αὖθις ἄλλως κωλύει.

^[165] τὸ δὲ πολὺ τῆς ἕξεως.

^[166] This is the rendering according to the Latin version. The text is, ἀπεσκευασμένου ἤδη μείζονι παρασκευῇ μεταναστάσεως τῆς πρὸς τό θεῖον. Vossius reads, μετ᾽ ἀναστάσεως.

^[167] ὧν ἥττων φροντις κατ᾽ ἀξίαν τε καὶ μὴ, λεγομένων.

^[168] The text is, μὴ καὶ ψυχρὸν ἢ πέρπερον ᾖ, where, according to Bengel, μή has the force of ut non dicam.

^[169] But the text reads, οὐκ εὐλόγως.

^[170] ἀσαφῶν. But Ger. Voss has ἀσφαλῶν, safe.

Argument III.—He is Stimulated to Speak of Him by the Longing of a Grateful Mind. To the Utmost of His Ability He Thinks He Ought to Thank Him. From God are the Beginnings of All Blessings; And to Him Adequate Thanks Cannot Be Returned.

^[171] Reading ὅτῳ, with Hœschelius, Bengel, and the Paris editor, while Voss. reads οτι.

^[172] Luke xxi. 2.

^[173] παναγεῖ, which in the lexicons is given as bearing only the good sense, all-hallowed, but which here evidently is taken in the opposite.

Argument IV.—The Son Alone Knows How to Praise the Father Worthily. In Christ and by Christ Our Thanksgivings Ought to Be Rendered to the Father. Gregory Also Gives Thanks to His Guardian Angel, Because He Was Conducted by Him to Origen.

^[174] ἐκπεριών in the text, for which Bengel gives ἐκπεριϊών, a word used frequently by this author. In Dorner it is explained as = going out of Himself in order to embrace and encompass Himself. See the Doctrine of the Person of Christ, A. II. p. 173 (Clark).

^[175] λόγος.

^[176] [The unformed theological mind of a youth is here betrayed.]

^[177] The text gives μεληγορείν, for which others read μεγαληγορεῖν.

^[178] Gen. xlviii. 15. [Jacob refers to the Jehovah-Angel.]

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