Gregory Thaumaturgus

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Introductory Note to Gregory Thaumaturgus.

^[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.]

^[199] θρεμμάτων.

^[200] The text here is, ταῦθ᾽ ἅπερ ἡμᾶς ἀνέσειε, μάλιστα λέγων και μάλα τεχνικῶς, τοῦ κυριωτάτου, φησὶ, τῶν ἐν ἡμῖν λόγου, ἀμελήσαντας.

^[201] The text gives ἐκ πρώτης ἡλικίας, which Bengel takes to be an error for the absolute ἐκ πρώτης, to which ὴμέρας would be supplied. Casaubon and Rhodomanus read ὁμιλίας for ὴλικίας.

^[202] 1 Sam. xviii. 1.

^[203] ἄτακτον.

Argument VII.—The Wonderful Skill with Which Origen Prepares Gregory and Athenodorus for Philosophy. The Intellect of Each is Exercised First in Logic, and the Mere Attention to Words is Contemned.

^[204] τὸ πλεῖον.

^[205] The text gives συμβλύσαντα ὡς, for which Casaubon proposes συμφύσαντα εἰς ἕν, or ὡς ἕν. Bengel suggests συμβρύσανρα ὡς ἕν.

^[206] νόθον.

^[207] The text gives ἐκεῖ, for which Hœschelius and Bengel read είκῆ.

^[208] τελειοῦθαι δὲ τῇ βλάσψῃ.

^[209] ὑπ᾽ ἀλλήλων.

^[210] τριβόλους.

^[211] The words ἀλλὰ κεκρυμμένα are omitted by Hœschelius and Bengel.

^[212] ἐι τι ῾Ελληνικὸν ἢ βάρβαρόν ἐστι τῇ φωνῇ.

Argument VIII.—Then in Due Succession He Instructs Them in Physics, Geometry, and Astronomy.

^[213] The text is, καὶ μὴ τοῦθ᾽ ὅπερ εἶδος διαλεκτικὴ κατορθοῦν μόνη εἴληχε.

Argument IX.—But He Imbues Their Minds, Above All, with Ethical Science; And He Does Not Confine Himself to Discoursing on the Virtues in Word, But He Rather Confirms His Teaching by His Acts.

^[214] πᾶν τὸ φιλόσοφον. Hœschelius and Bengel read πῶς, etc.

^[215] The text gives ὑφ᾽ ἑαυτῆς, for which Bengel reads ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτῆς.

^[216] ἐκχέοντα ἡμᾶς.

^[217] ἐπιστήμη, science.

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