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Introductory Note to Gregory Thaumaturgus.

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

[179] The text gives ἐμοὶ, etc.,…συμφερον ειναι καταφαίνεται. Bengel’s idea of the sense is followed in the translation.

Argument V.—Here Gregory Interweaves the Narrative of His Former Life. His Birth of Heathen Parents is Stated. In the Fourteenth Year of His Age He Loses His Father. He is Dedicated to the Study of Eloquence and Law. By a Wonderful Leading of Providence, He is Brought to Origen.

[180] τὰ πάτρια ἔθη τὰ πεπλανημένα.

[181] [The force of the original is not opprobrious.]

[182] Reading ἣ δή. Others give ἢ δή; others, ἤδη; and the conjecture ἢ ἡβη, “or my youth,” is also made.

[183] λόγου.

[184] Word.

[185] The text, however, gives ἀλέκτρῳ.

[186] αἰτιῶν, causes.

[187] Reading τούῳ ἐπὶ νοῦν βαλών.

[188] ἐφόδιον.

[189] The text is ἀποχέουσα. Hœschelius gives ἀπέχουσα.

[190] ῾Ρωμαϊκωτέρα πῶς.

[191] The text is, οὐδὲν οὅτως ἀναγκαῖον ἦν ὅσον ἐπὶ τοῖς νόμοις ἡμῶν, δυνατὸν ὂν καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν ῾Ρωμαίων ἀποδημῆσαι πόλιν. Bengel takes ὅσον as παρέλκον. Migne renders, nullam ei fuisse necessitatem huc veniendi, discendi leges causa, siquidem Romam posset proficisci. Sirmondus makes it, nulla causa adeo necessaria erat qua possem per leges nostras ad Romanorum civitatem proficisci.

[192] The text gives ἐκπονήσαντες. Casaubon reads ἐκποιήσοντες.

[193] εὔλογον.

[194] σύμβολα.

[195] δί αὐτοῦ. Bengel understands this to refer to the soldier.

[196] The text is, την ἀληθῆ δι᾽ αὐτοῦ περὶ τὰ τοῦ λόγου μαθήματα. Bengel takes this as an ellipsis, like τὴν ἑαυτοῦ, τὴν ἐμὴν μίαν, and similar phrases, γνώμην or ὁδόν, or some such word, being supplied. Casaubon conjectures καὶ ἀληθῆ, for which Bengel would prefer τα ἀληθῆ.

[197] οἰκονομίαν.

Argument VI.—The Arts by Which Origen Studies to Keep Gregory and His Brother Athenodorus with Him, Although It Was Almost Against Their Will; And the Love by Which Both are Taken Captive. Of Philosophy, the Foundation of Piety, with the View of Giving Himself Therefore Wholly to that Study, Gregory is Willing to Give Up Fatherland, Parents, the Pursuit of Law, and Every Other Discipline. Of the Soul as the Free Principle. The Nobler Part Does Not Desire to Be United with the Inferior, But the Inferior with the Nobler.

[198] [I think Lardner’s inclination to credit Gregory with some claim to be an alumnus of Berytus, is very fairly sustained.]

 

 

 

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