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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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| XIII. And having been first chastened by many means (because his sins were many, whose root of evil sprang up through divers causes and at sundry tithes), by word, by law, by prophets, by benefits, by threats, by plagues, by waters, by fires, by wars, by victories, by defeats, by signs in heaven and signs in the air and in the earth and in the sea, by unexpected changes of men, of cities, of nations (the object of which was the destruction of wickedness), at last he needed a stronger remedy, for his diseases were growing worse; mutual slaughters, adulteries, perjuries, unnatural crimes, and that first and last of all evils, idolatry and the transfer of worship from the Creator to the Creatures. As these required a greater aid, so also they obtained a greater. And that was that the Word of God Himself-Who is before all worlds, the Invisible, the Incomprehensible, the Bodiless, Beginning of Beginning, the Light of Light, the Source of Life and Immortality, the Image of the Archetypal Beauty, the immovable Seal, the unchangeable Image, the Father's Definition and Word, came to His own Image, and took on Him flesh for the sake of our flesh, and mingled Himself with an intelligent soul for my soul's sake, purifying like by like; and in all points except sin was made man. | Πολλοῖς δὲ παιδευθεὶς πρότερον ἀντὶ πολλῶν τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων͵ ὧν ἡ τῆς κακίας ῥίζα ἐβλάστησε κατὰ διαφόρους αἰτίας καὶ χρόνους͵ λόγῳ͵ νόμῳ͵ προφήταις͵ εὐεργεσίαις͵ ἀπειλαῖς͵ πληγαῖς͵ ὕδασιν͵ ἐμπρησμοῖς͵ πολέμοις͵ νίκαις͵ ἥτταις͵ σημείοις ἐξ οὐρανοῦ͵ σημείοις ἐξ ἀέρος͵ ἐκ γῆς͵ ἐκ θαλάττης͵ ἀνδρῶν͵ πόλεων͵ ἐθνῶν ἀνελπίστοις μεταβολαῖς͵ ὑφ΄ ὧν ἐκτριβῆναι τὴν κακίαν τὸ σπουδαζόμενον ἦν. Τέλος ἰσχυροτέρου δεῖται φαρμάκου ἐπὶ δεινοτέροις τοῖς ἀῤῥωστήμασιν͵ ἀλληλοφονίαις͵ μοιχείαις͵ ἐπιορκίαις͵ ἀνδρομανίαις͵ τὸ πάντων ἔσχατον τῶν κακῶν καὶ πρῶτον͵ εἰδωλολατρείαις καὶ τῇ μεταθέσει τῆς προσκυνήσεως ἀπὸ τοῦ πεποιηκότος ἐπὶ τὰ κτίσματα. Ταῦτα ἐπειδὴ μείζονος ἐδεῖτο τοῦ βοηθήματος͵ μείζονος καὶ τυγχάνει. Τὸ δὲ ἦν αὐτὸς ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγος͵ ὁ προαιώνιος͵ ὁ ἀόρατος͵ ὁ ἀπερίληπτος͵ ὁ ἀσώματος͵ ἡ ἐκ τῆς ἀρχῆς ἀρχή͵ τὸ ἐκ τοῦ φωτὸς φῶς͵ ἡ πηγὴ τῆς ζωῆς καὶ τῆς ἀθανασίας͵ τὸ ἐκμαγεῖον τοῦ ἀρχετύπου κάλλους͵ ἡ μὴ κινουμένη σφραγίς͵ ἡ ἀπαράλλακτος εἰκών͵ ὁ τοῦ Πατρὸς ὅρος καὶ Λόγος ἐπὶ τὴν ἰδίαν εἰκόνα χωρεῖ καὶ σάρκα φορεῖ διὰ τὴν σάρκα καὶ ψυχῇ νοερᾷ διὰ τὴν ἐμὴν ψυχὴν μίγνυται͵ τῷ ὁμοίῳ τὸ ὅμοιον ἀνακαθαίρων. Καὶ πάντα γίγνεται͵ πλὴν τῆς ἁμαρτίας͵ ἄνθρωπος· |
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