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Introductory Note to Gregory Thaumaturgus.

[267] οὐ γὰρ ἐν τῇ μετὰ σοῦ ἐλευθερίᾳ καὶ ἀπελθόντες ὑπακούσομεν αὐτῷ. Bengel paraphrases it thus: hac libertate quæ tecum est carebo digressus; quare vereor ut Deo posthac paream, ni timore saltem munitus fuero.[He may probably have been only a catechumen at this period. This peroration favours the suspicion.]

Elucidations.

[268] The Patriarchate of Alexandria, London, 1847.

[269] The ultimate influence of the school itself, Neale pronounces “an enigma” (vol. i. p. 38).

[270] Vol. i. p. 33.

A Sectional Confession of Faith.

[271] Edited in Latin by Gerardus Vossius, Opp. Greg. Thaum., Paris, 1662, in fol.; given in Greek from the Codex Vaticanus by Cardinal Mai, Script. Vet., vii. p. 170. Vossius has the following argument: This is a second Confession of Faith, and one widely different from the former, which this great Gregory of ours received by revelation. This seems, however, to be designated an ἔκθεσις τῆς κατὰ μέρος πίστεως, either because it records and expounds the matters of the faith only in part, or because the Creed is explained in it by parts. The Jesuit theologian Franc. Torrensis (the interpreter and scholiast of this ἔκθεσις) has, however, rendered the phrase ἡ κατὰ μέρος πίστις, by the Latin fides non universa sed in parte. And here we have a fides non universa sed in parte, according to him,—a creed not of all the dogmas of the Church, but only of some in opposition to the heretics who deny them. [The better view.]

I.

[272] οἱ τὸν Υἱὸν ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων καὶ ἀποστελλομένης ἀρχῆς εἶναι ἐπίκτητον λέγοντες τῷ Πατρί. [Note, Exucontians = Arians.]

[273] ἀκοινωνήτους καὶ ξένας εἰσάγοντες λατρείας.

[274] ἐν μονάδι τὸ τριπλοῦν ἀσεβῶς κατὰ σύνθεσιν.

II.

[275] ἐν τῇ πίστεως οἰκειώσει.

III.

[276] προκοπάς.

[277] δόξαν τὴν ἐπιγινομένην.

[278] μόρφωσις τῶν ὅλων.

[279] τὴν κτίσιν.

IV.

[280] οὔτε Θεὸς ἕτερος ὡς Πατήρ.

[281] ἀργόν.

[282] This seems the idea in the sentence, οὐ γὰρ ἐξισωσθήσεται τῷ κτίσματι αὐτὸ κατ᾽ οὐδένα τρόπον, ἵν᾽ ὡς ὑπ᾽ ἐκείνου ἔκτισται, οὕτω καὶ αὐτὸ κτίσῃ τὰ ἄλλαα.

V.

[283] ἡγιασμένον ποίημα.

[284] Trias. [See vol. ii. p. 101.]

[285] Trias. [See vol. ii. p. 101.]

[286] Monas.

[287] συναριθμεῖν.

 

 

 

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