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Gregory Thaumaturgus
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Introductory Note to Gregory Thaumaturgus.
[54] The text is, ᾧ τινι οὖν, ἀλλ᾽ ἔστιν, ἐκεινα φοβερά τε ὁμοῦ καὶ θαυμαστά.
[55] σύστασιν.
[56] [The key to the interpretation of this book, as to much of the book of Job, is found in the brief expostulation of Jeremiah (Jer. 12.1), where he confesses his inability to comprehend the world and God’s ways therein, yet utters a profession of unshaken confidence in His goodness. Here Solomon, in monologue, gives vent to similar misgivings; overruling all in the wonderful ode with which the book concludes. I say Solomon, not unadvisedly.]
[57] συκοφαντιων.
[58] The text is, βίᾳ καταβλημένοι τῶν ἐπαμυνόντων ἢ ὅλως παραμυθησομένων αὐτοὺς πάσης πανταχόθεν κατεχούσης ἀπορίας. The sense is not clear. It may be: who are struck down in spite of those who protect them, and who should by all means comfort them when all manner of trouble presses them on all sides.
[59] χειροδικαι.
[60] Following the reading of Cod. Medic., which puts τιθέμενος for τιθέμενον. [See Cyprian, vol. v. p. 493, note 7, this series.]
[61] προτροπάδην.
[62] χρηματίσασθαι.
[63] κοινωνίαν ἅμα βίου ἐστείλαντο.
[64] ἀνακτησομένου.
[65] The text is, καὶ νύκτωρ σεμνότητι σεμνύνεσθαι, for which certain codices read σεμνότητι φαιδρύνεσθαι, and others φαιδρότητι σεμνυνεσθαι.
[66] Jerome cites the passage in his Commentary on Ecclesiastes [iv. 12].
[67] Τοὺς ὅσοι προγενέστεροι. The sense is incomplete, and some words seem missing in the text. Jerome, in rendering this passage in his Commentary on Ecclesiastes, turns it thus: ita autem ut sub sene rege versati sint; either having lighted on a better manuscript, or adding something of his own authority to make out the meaning.
[68] δία τὸ ἑτέρου ἀπειράτως ἔχειν.
[69] εὐσταθούσῃ.
[70] ἐν τῇ περὶ λόγους σπουδῇ.
[71] ἀνδρείους.
[72] καθορᾶν.
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