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Gregory the Theologian
Bilingual Anthologyfrom the Speech on the Theophany
(38), * §§
7-11 & 13, Patrologia Graeca 36.317-325
translated
by C. G. Browne, J. E. Swallow. Greek Fonts / Gregory Theologian Home Page
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 OD always was,
and always is, and always will be. Or rather, God always Is. For Was
and Will be are fragments of our time, and of changeable nature, but
He is Eternal Being. And this is the Name that He gives to Himself
when giving the Oracle to Moses in the Mount. For in Himself He sums
up and contains all Being, having neither beginning in the past nor
end in the future; like some great Sea of Being, limitless and
unbounded, transcending all conception of time and nature, only
adumbrated by the mind, and that very dimly and scantily, not by His
Essentials, but by His Environment; one image being got from one
source and another from another, and combined into some sort of
presentation of the truth, which escapes us before we have caught
it, and takes to flight before we have conceived it, blazing forth
upon our Master-part, even when that is cleansed, as the lightning
flash which will not stay its course, does upon our sight. |
Θεὸς Θεοῖς ἑνούμενος Θεὸς ἦν ἀεὶ καὶ ἔστι καὶ ἔσται· μᾶλλον δὲ ἔστιν ἀεί. Τὸ γὰρ ἦν καὶ ἔσται τοῦ καθ΄ ἡμᾶς χρόνου τμήματα καὶ τῆς ῥευστῆς φύσεως· ὁ δὲ ὢν ἀεὶ καὶ τοῦτο αὐτὸς ἑαυτὸν ὀνομάζει τῷ Μωϋσεῖ χρηματίζων ἐπὶ τοῦ ὄρους. Ὅλον γὰρ ἐν ἑαυτῷ συλλαβὼν ἔχει τὸ εἶναι͵ μήτε ἀρξάμενον͵ μήτε παυσόμενον͵ οἷόν τι πέλαγος οὐσίας ἄπειρον καὶ ἀόριστον͵ πᾶσαν ὑπερεκπῖπτον ἔννοιαν καὶ χρόνου καὶ φύσεως· νῷ μόνῳ σκιαγραφούμενος καὶ τοῦτο λίαν ἀμυδρῶς καὶ μετρίως͵ οὐκ ἐκ τῶν κατ΄ αὐτὸν͵ ἀλλ΄ ἐκ τῶν περὶ αὐτὸν ἄλλης ἐξ ἄλλου φαντασίας συλλεγομένης εἰς ἕν τι τῆς ἀληθείας ἴνδαλμα͵ πρὶν κρατηθῆναι φεῦγον καὶ πρὶν νοηθῆναι διαδιδράσκον· τοσαῦτα περιλάμπον ἡμῶν τὸ ἡγεμονικὸν καὶ ταῦτα κεκαθαρμένον͵ ὅσα καὶ ὄψιν ἀστραπῆς τάχος οὐχ ἱσταμένης. |
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