Epistles

οἱ γὰρ θειότατοι προφῆται κατὰ Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν ἔζησαν. διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἐδιώχθησαν, ἐνπνεόμενοι ὑπὸ τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ, εἰς τὸ πληροφορηθῆναι τοὺς ἀπειθοῦντας, ὅτι εἶς θεός ἐστιν, ὁ φανερώσας ἑαυτὸν διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, ὅς ἐστιν αὐτοῦ λόγος ἁπὸ σιγῆς προελθών, [*](So A and a #3uotation in Severus. GL read lo/gos a)i/dios ou)k a)po\ sigh=s proelqw/n, but this is rightly regarded by recent editors as a doctrinal emencdation due to fear of Gnostie theories in shich *sigh/ and *qeo/s sere the original pair from shich *lo/gos emainted, of. Clem, Alex. Ed. Theot. fi. 9.) ὃς κατὰ πάντα εὐηρέστησεν τῷ πέμψαντι αὐτόν.

Εἰ οὖν οἱ ἐν παλαιοῖς πράγμασιν ἀναστραφέντες εἰς καινότητα ἐλπίδος ἦλθον, μηκέτι σαββατίζοντες, ἀλλὰ κατὰ κυριακὴν ζῶντες, ἐν ᾗ καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἡμῶν ἀνέτειλεν δἰ αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ, ὅν τινες [*](o(/ tines L, oi(/ tines G, g paraphrases but has o(/n not d. A is ambiguous. There is thus a slight balance in favour of o(/n tines.) ἀρνοῦνται, δἰ οὗ μυστηρίου ἐλάβομεν τὸ πιστεύειν, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ὑπομένομεν, ἵνα εὑρεθῶμεν μαθηταὶ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ μόνου διδασκάλου ἡμῶν:

πῶς ἡμεῖς δυνησόμεθα ζῆσαι χωρὶς αὐτοῦ, οὗ καὶ οἱ προφῆται μαθηταὶ