ταῦτα μὲν οὖν εἴποι τις ἂν τὸ ἄγραφον ὑποθέμενος· ἤδη δὲ ἥξει σοι καὶ ὁ τῶν μαρτυριῶν ἐσμός, ἐξ ὧν, ὅτι καὶ λίαν ἔγγραφος, ἡ τοῦ πνεύματος θεότης τοῖς μὴ λίαν σκαιοῖς, μηδὲ ἀλλοτρίοις τοῦ πνεύματος. σκόπει δὲ οὕτως· γεννᾶται Χριστός, προτρέχει· βαπτίζεται, μαρτυρεῖ· πειράζεται, ἀνάγει· δυνάμεις ἐπιτελεῖ, συμπαρομαρτεῖ· ἀνέρχεται, διαδέχεται. τί γὰρ οὐ δύναται τῶν μεγάλων, καὶ ὧν θεός ; τί δὲ οὐ προσαγορεύεται ὧν θεός, πλὴν ἀγεννησίας καὶ γεννήσεως ; ἔδει γὰρ τὰς ἰδιότητας μεῖναι πατρὶ καὶ υἱῷ, ἵνα μὴ σύγχυσις ἦ παρὰ θεότητι, τῆ καὶ τἄλλα εἰς τάξιν ἀγούσῃ καὶ εὐκοσμίαν. ἐγὼ μὲν 29. 4 ὑποτιθέμενος ‘Reg. a’ || 13 πάρα] + τῆ df 2. ἀνάπλασις] that work of reconstruction of the character, in which ἀναγέννησις is the initial movement. It is only by deepening experience of the Spirit’s upon ourselves that we become convinced of the greatness of the Spirit Himself. 29. Turn to the direct testimony of Scripture. What things are said of the Holy Ghost! 4. ὑποθέμενος] ‘assuming,’ as the basis of discussion’; it does not in itself imply ‘admitting.’ 5. μαρτυριῶν] ‘Scripture testimonies’; cp. § 2. 7. μὴ λ. σκαιοῖς] ‘to those who are not too dense, or altogether strangers to the Spirit.’ 8. γεννᾶται Xp., προτρέχει] In the series which follows, the subject of the first verb of each pair is Christ, the subject of the second is the Holy Ghost. Προτρέχει, Luke i 35, Matt, i 20. 9. μαρτυρεῖ] John i 32 foll. ib. ἀνάγει] Matt, iv 1. ib. συμπαρομαρτεῖ] ‘accompanies Him,’ Luke iv 14 foll., Matt, xii Cp. Or. xli 11 ᾧ παρῆν, οὐχ ὡς 28. ἐνεργοῦν, ἀλλ’ ὡς ὁμοτίμῳ συμπαρομαρτουν. 10. διαδέχεται] John xiv 16 etc. ib. τί γὰρ οὐ δύν. κτλ.] ‘What mighty thing, peculiar to God, is there that He cannot do? What title, peculiar to God, is there which is not applied to Him, except those of Unbegotten and Begotten?’ The phrase ὧν θεός means, ‘which go to make up our conception of God.’ seems strange to add καὶ γεννήσεως as one of those things ὧν θεός, as those with whom Gr. is arguing would not admit it. Gr. means, no doubt, that to orthodox Christians the Godhead cannot be conceived of without it. 12. ἰδιότητας] as in § 28. φρίττω τὸν πλοῦτον ἐννοῶν τῶν κλήσεων, καὶ καθ’ ὅσων ὀνομάτων ἀναισχυντοῦσιν οἱ τῷ πνεύματι ἀντιπίπτοντες. πνεῦμα θεοῦ λέγεται, πνεῦμα χριστοῦ, νοῦς Χριστοῦ, πνεῦμα κυρίου, αὐτὸ κύριος· πνεῦμα υἱοθεσίας, ἐλευθερίας· πνεῦμα σοφίας, συνέσεως, βουλῆς, ἰσχύος, γνώσεως, εὐσεβείας, φοβοῦ θεοῦ· καὶ γὰρ ποιητικὸν τούτων ἁπάντων· πάντα τῇ οὐσίᾳ πληροῦν, πάντα συνέχον αυνέχον· πληρωτικὸν κόσμου κατὰ τὴν οὐσίαν, ἀχώρητον κόσμῳ κατὰ τὴν δύναμιν· ἀγαθόν, εὐθές, ἡγεμονικόν, φύσει οὐ θέσει· ἁγιάζον, οὐχ ἁγιαζόμενον, μετροῦν, οὐ μετρούμενον, μετεχόμενον, οὐ μετέχον, πληροῦν, οὐ πληρούμενον, συνέχον, οὐ συνεχόμενον συνεχόμενον· κληρονομούμενον, δοξαζόμενον, συναριθμούμενον, ἐπαπειλούμενον· δάκτυλος θεοῦ, πῦρ ὡς θεός, εἰς 1 ὅσων] ὅσον e2 1. καθ’ ὅσων ὂν. ἀναισχ.] ‘and how many names they outrage,’ ‘against how many names they are impudent.’ 3. πνεῦμα θεοῦ] e.g. 1 Cor. ii 11 ; Χριστοῦ, Rom. viii 9 ; νοῦς Χρ., 1 Cor. ii 16; πν. κυρίου, 2 Cor. iii 17; αὐτὸ κ., ibid. 4. πν. υἱοθεσίας] Rom. viii 15 ἀληθείας, John xiv 17, xv 26, xvi 13, 1 John iv 6; ἐλευθερίας (by implication), 2 Cor. iii 17. 5. πν. σοφίας κτλ.] Is. xi 2 foll. 7. πάντα τῇ οὖσ’. πλ.] Wisd. i 7. Πληρωτικὸν κόσμου κ. τ. οὖσ’. is scarcely more than a repetition, but is introduced as an antithesis to ἀχώρητον κτλ., which is Gr.’s of the συνέχον τὰ πάντα of Wisdom. 9. ἀγαθόν] Doubtless Gr.’s in Ps. cxlii (cxliii) 10 ; εὐθές, Ps. 1 12 (li 10); ἡγεμ., ibid. 14 (12). ib. φύσει οὐ θέσει] These words qualify the preceding adjectives, and esp. ἡγεμ. The Holy Spirit is ‘good, right, sovereigh,’ by and not by an act that involved a change in Him. Θέσις seems to be used in the sense of ‘agreement,’ ‘arrangement,’ in which sense it is contrasted with φύσις by other writers. From this general sense of ‘agreement,’ it comes to be used of ‘adoption’ into a family, or ‘admission’ to the citizenship of a city. 10. ἁγιάζον] e.g. Rom. xv 16 μετροῦν, ι Cor. xii 1 1 (for οὐ μετρούμενον cp. iv 12); μετεχόμενον, e.g. Phil, ii 1 ; πληροῦν, συνέχον, Wisd. i 7. 12. κληρονομούμενον] not a scriptural phrase, but perh. derived from more general expressions, like 1 Pet. iii 9 εὐλογίαν κλ., or Gal. iii 14 compared with 18; or from the usual language of Scripture about ‘habing,’ ‘receiving,’ the Spirit. Δοξαζόμενον, perh. ι Pet. iv 14; συναριθμ., e.g. Matt, xxviii 19, 2 Cor. xiii 14 ; ἐπαπειλούμενον, ‘used as a threat,’ Matt. xii 31 (cp. 2 Thess. ii 8). 13. δάκτυλος θ.] Luke xi 20 compared with Matt, xii 28 ; πῦρ, Acts ii 3 (cp. 1 Thess. v 19, 2 Tim. i 6); ὡς θεός, Hob. xii 29. ἔμφασιν, οἴμαι, τοῦ ὁμοουσίου· πνεῦμα τὸ ποιῆσαν, τὸ ἀνακτίζον διὰ βαπτίσματος, δι’ ἀναστάσεως· πνεῦμα τὸ γινῶσκον ἅπαντα, τὸ διδάσκον, τὸ πνέον ὅπου θέλει καὶ ὅσον, ὁδηγοῦν, λαλοῦν, ἀποστέλλον, ἀφορίζον, παροξυνόμενον, πειραζόμενον· ἀποκαλυπτικόν, φωτιστικόν, ζωτικόν, μᾶλλον δὲ αὐτοφῶς καὶ ζωή· ναοποιοῦν, θεοποιοῦν, τελειοῦν, ὥστε καὶ προλαμβάνειν τὸ βάπτισμα, καὶ ἐπιζητεῖσθαι μετὰ τὸ βάπτισμα· ἐνεργοῦν ὅσα θεός, μεριζόμενον ἐν γλώσσαις πυρίναις, διαιροῦν χαρίσματα, ποιοῦν ἀποστόλους, προφήτας, εὐαγγελιστάς, ποιμένας, καὶ διδασκάλους· νοερόν, πολυμερές, σαφές, τρανόν, ἀκώλυτον, ἀμόλυντον· ᾧπερ ἴσον δύναται τὸ σοφώτατον καὶ πολύτροπον ταῖς ἐνεργείαις, 4 πειραζόμενον παροξυνόμενον e2 || 11 ἀμόλυντον ἀκώλυτον df || ωπερ] ὅπερ abceg ‘plures Reg. etc.’ || 12 το] τὼ acg ‘duo Reg.’ 1. τὸ ποιῆσαν] Prob. a ref. to Gen. i 2 ; ἄνακτ’. διὰ β., John iii 5 (2 Cor. v 17); δι’ ἀναστ., Rom. viii 11. 2. τὸ γινῶσκον ἅπ.] i Cor. ii 10 (cp. Ps. exxxviii (exxxix) 7); διδάσκον, John xiv 26, 1 John ii 27 πνέον, John iii 8 ; ὁδηγοῦν, John xvi 13; λαλοῦν, ἀποστ., ἀφορ., Acts xiii 2 foil. (cp. Acts xx 23, 1 Tim. iv 1 ; Is. xlviii 16). 4. παροξυνόμενον] Is. lxiii 10 ; πειραζ., Acts v 9. 5."/> ἀποκαλυπτικόν] I Cor. ii 10 φωτιστ., ζωτ., perh. Ps. xxxv 10 (xxxvi 9) as in § 3 (cp. John vi 63 Rom. viii 10). 6. ναοποιοῦν] I Cor. iii 16, vi 19 θεοποιοῦν, constructively deduced from the Sourut’s action in baptism ; τελειοῦν, in the ‘mystical’ sense of ‘initiating.’ All three words have ref. to ‘baptism,’ in the larger sense of the word ; and the ὥστε prob. belongs to all three. It is more difficult to say what Gr. means by this use of ὥστε. Prob. it is intended to shew that the Spirit’s part in baptism is an active, and not a passive part, so as to justify Gr.’s attribution to Him of work of ‘making’ us temples etc. His independence with respect to the sacrament is a proof of this. He is able to ‘anticipate baptism’ (Acts x 44) ; and ‘baptism’ may be received and His indwelling be yet to seek (Acts viii 16). 8. ἐνεργοῦν] 1 Cor. xii 11; μερὶ. ζόμενον, Acts ii 3 ; διαιροῦν, I Cor. xii n; ποιοῦν ἀπ’. κτλ., Eph. iv 11 compared with 1 Cor. xii 4 foll., Rom. xii 6, Acts xx 28. 10. νοερὸν κτλ.] The following list is taken from Wisd. vii 22 foll., which describes the ‘spirit’ which ‘is in Wisdom.’ Gr. does not all the epithets there used, some of which, esp. μονογενές, would have been troublesome for him to expound. Each epithet from νοερὸν to ἀμόλυντον is explained. Νοερόν = σοφώτατον ; πολυμερές = ταῖς ἐνεργ. ; σαφές = σαφηνιστικὸν πάντων (neut.) ; τρανόν = τρανωτικόν ; ἀκώλυτον = αὐτεξούσιον (this shews the order of df to be wrong) ; ἀμόλυντον = ἀναλλοίωτον (since change in the Holy Ghost must be a change for the worse). καὶ σαφηνιστικὸν πάντων, καὶ τρανωτικόν, καὶ αὐτεξούσιον καὶ ἀναλλοίωτον· παντοδύναμον, παντεπίσκοπον, διὰ πάντων χωροῦν πνευμάτων νοερῶν, καθαρῶν, λεπτοτάτων, ἀγγελικῶν, οἶμαι, δυνάμεων, ὥσπερ καὶ προφητικῶν καὶ ἀποστολικῶν, κατὰ ταὐτό, καὶ οὐκ ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῖς τόποις, ἄλλων δὲ ἀλλαχοῦ νενεμημένων, ᾧ δηλοῦται τὸ ἀπερίγραπτον.

Οἱ ταῦτα λέγοντες καὶ διδάσκοντες, καὶ πρός ἄλλον παράκλητον, οἷον ἄλλον θεόν, ὀνομάζοντες, οἱ τὴν εἰς αὐτὸ βλασφημίαν μόνην εἰδότες ἀσυγχώρητον, οἱ τὸν Ἀνανίαν καὶ τὴν Σάπφειραν οὕτω φοβερῶς στηλιτεύσαντες, ἐπειδὴ ἐψεύσαντο τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, ὡς θεὸν ψευσαμένους, οὐκ ἄνθρωπον· οὗτοι τί σοι δοκοῦσι, πότερον θεὸν τὸ πνεῦμα κηρύσσειν, ἢ ἄλλο τι; ὡς λίαν ὄντως παχύς τις εἰ, καὶ πόρρω τοῦ πνεύματος, εἰ τοῦτο ἀπορεῖς, καὶ δέῃ τοῦ διδάξοντος. αἱ μὲν οὖν κλήσεις τοσαῦται καὶ οὕτως 5 ταὐτὸ] ταὐτὸν cdef: τοῦτο ‘Or. Ι’ 30. 8 πρὸς γε] προσέτι γε b: προσέτι ‘Reg. a’ || 10 αὐτὸ] αὐτὸν def || 14 κηρύσσειν] κηρύττουσι b ‘Reg. a’ || 16 διδαξοντος] δικάζοντος ‘Reg. Cypr.’ 2. παντοδύναμον ... λεπτοτάτων] Wisd. vii 23. The ‘understanding, pure, and most subtle spirits’ in Wisd. ‘through’ which the Spirit ‘goes,’ are, in Gr.’s opinion (no doubt correct), not only ‘the angelic Powers,’ but also the spirits of prophets and apostles. These the Holy Spirit penetrates κατὰ ταὐτό, ‘simultabeously,’ although they are distributed in many different places, which is a proof that He is infinite. 30. Such sayings involve His Godhead. All language of α different kind is explained by the principle of referring all to the Father as the First Cause. 8. οἱ ταῦτα λέγοντες] viz. the sacred writers who used such Ianguage about the Holy Spirit. ib. πρός γε] adv. ‘besides.’ 9. οἶον ἄλλον θ.] The words have a dangerous sound; ‘as it were another God.’ But Gr. does not mean to call Him so. He means that to call Him a Paraclete at all, in the same sense as is equivalent to calling Him God. 10. μόνην εἰδότες ἀσυγχ] Matt. xii 31 foll. 11. στηλιτεύσαντες] The Greek method of proclaiming something to the honour or infamy of a person was to ‘post’ it on a στήλη or post in some publc place. Hence a person subjected to such infamy is described in class. Greek as στηλίτῆς; from whence comes the στηλιτεύειν. 12. ἐψεύσ…ὡς θεόν] Acts v 3 foll. 14. ὡς λίαν] ‘since you really are a very stupid person. 15. πόρρω τοῦ πν] like ἀλλότριοι τοῦ πν. in § 29, ‘unspiritual.’ ἔμψυχοι. τί γὰρ δεῖ σοι τὰς ἐπὶ τῶν ῥημάτων μαρτυρίας παρατίθεσθαι; ὅσα δὲ κἀνταῦθα λέγεται ταπεινότερον, τὸ δίδοσθαι, τὸ ἀποστέλλεσθαι, τὸ μερίζεσθαι, τὸ χάρισμα, τὸ δώρημα, τὸ ἐμφύσημα, ἡ ἐπαγγελία, ἡ ὑπερέντευξις, εἴτε τι ἄλλο τοιοῦτον, ἵνα μὴ καθ’ ἕκαστον λέγω, ἐπὶ τὴν πρώτην αἰτίαν ἀνενεκτέον, ἵνα τὸ ἐξ οὗ δειχθῇ, καὶ μὴ τρεῖς ἀρχαὶ μεμερισμέναι πολυθέως παραδεχθῶσιν. ἴσον γὰρ εἰς ἀσέβειαν, καὶ Σαβελλίως συνάψαι, καὶ Ἀρειανῶς διαστῆσαι, τὸ μὲν τῷ προσώπῳ, τὸ δὲ ταῖς φύσεσιν.

῾Ως ἔγωγε πολλὰ διασκεψάμενος πρὸς ἐμαυτὸν τῇ φιλοπραγμοσύνῃ τοῦ νοῦ, καὶ πανταχόθεν τὸν λόγον εὐθύνας, καὶ ζητῶν εἰκόνα τινὰ τοῦ τοσούτου πράγματος, οὐκ ἔσχον ᾧ τινὶ χρὴ τῶν κάτω τὴν θείαν φύσιν παραβαλεῖν. κἂν γὰρ μικρά τις ὁμοίωσις εὑρεθῇ, φεύγει τὸ πλεῖον, ἀφέν με κάτω μετὰ τοῦ ὑποδείγματος. ὀφθαλμόν 1 ἔπι] ἐκ ‘Reg. Cypr.’ || 5 μὴ] + τα be2 || 7 παραδειχθωσιν ‘Reg. Cypr.’ || 9 τὸ μεν...το ’δε] τὼ μεν...τω ’δε ‘tres Colb.’ 31. 10 om πρὸς εμαιυτον ‘Reg. a’ || 12 om του d || 13 παραβαλεῖν] παραλαβεῖν b || 14 om γὰρ b || φεύγει] + με cdfg || 15 πλεῖον] πλέον cde2f || om με df 1. ἔμψυχοι] ‘vivid,’ ‘striking.’ ib. τὰς ἐπὶ τῶν ῥ. μ.] ‘the texts in so many words.’ In § 29 they for the most part only given allusively. What Gr. means by ἐπὶ τῶν ῥ may be seen in iii 17. 2. ὅσα δὲ κἀνταῦθα] i.e. as well as in the case of the Son. See iii 18. 3. δίδοσθαι] e.g. Luke xi 13 ἀποστ., Luke xxiv 49, Gal. iv 6 μερίς., Heb. ii 4; χάρισμα, 2 Tim. i 6; δώρημα (δωρεά), John iv 10, Acts viii 20; ἐμφύς., John xx 22; ἐπαγγ. Luke xxiv 49, Acts i 4 ; ὑπερέντευξις (cp. iv 14), Rom. viii 26. 6. ἀνενεκτέον] from ἀναφέρω, ‘must be referred to the primal Cause, in order that it may be shewn from whom He proceeds.’ 7. παραδεχθῶσιν] the correlative to παραδίδοσθαι ; ‘that men might not receive the polytheistic doctrine of three separate Sources, or First Principles.’ 9. τὸ μὲν τῷ προσώπῳ] lit. ‘it counts for the same in impiety, whether you join like Sabellius, or disjoin like the Arians, — the former in the person, the latter in the natures.’ Gr. seems instinctively to say τῷ προσώπῳ, not τοῖς προσώποις, because Sabellianism reduces the persons to one, — if indeed any personality can be said to remain. 31. Illustrations of the doctrine of the Trinity are wholly inadequate ; like mouth, spring, and stream. 10. ὡς ἔγ. π.] ‘How many things!’ 11. πανταχόθεν] Cp. πολυπρ. ii 9. ib. πανταχόθεν] where the English mode of thought would have expected πανταχόσε. 13. ᾦ τινὶ χρὴ τῶν κ.] ‘to what earthly thing I might compare.’ 14. τὸ πλεῖον] ‘the the most improtant part escapes me, leaving me below with my illustration.’ 15. ὀφθαλμόν] The context makes it unquestionable that Elias is right in interpreting the word to mean what is called ὀπή in James iii 11, — the ‘mouth’ out of which the spring issues. No other example of this usage seems to be known; but Gr.’s own language in his poem about the Holy Ghost (iii 60) leaves no room for doubt. He there rejects the same comparison of πόρος, πηγή, ποταμὸς μέγας, ἐν τε ῥέεθρον. It is just possible that Gr. was aware that an ‘eye’ is the ordinary word in Hebrew for a spring; but in any case the metaphor is so natural that it is prob. an accident that we do not find it oftener. τινα, καὶ πηγήν, καὶ ποταμὸν ἐνενόησα, καὶ γὰρ καὶ ἄλλοι, μὴ τῷ μὲν ὁ πατήρ, τῇ δὲ ὁ υἱός, τῷ δὲ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον ἀναλόγως ἔχη. ταῦτα γὰρ οὔτε χρόνῳ διέστηκεν, οὔτε ἀλλήλων ἀπέρρηκται τῇ συνεχείᾳ· κἂν δοκεῖ πὼς τρισὶν ἰδιότησι τέμνεσθαι. ἀλλ’ ἔδεισα, πρῶτον μὲν ῥύσιν τινὰ θεότητος παραδέξασθαι στάσιν οὐκ ἔχουσαν· δεύτερον δὲ μὴ τὸ ἓν τῷ ἀριθμῷ διὰ τῆς εἰκασίας ταύτης εἰσάγηται. ὀφθαλμὸς γάρ, καὶ πηγή, καὶ ποταμὸς ἕν ἐστιν ἀριθμῷ, διαφόρως σχηματιζόμενα.

Πάλιν ἥλιον ἐνεθυμήθην, καὶ ἀκτῖνα, καὶ φῶς. ἁλλὰ κἀνταῦθα δέος, πρῶτον μὲν μὴ σύνθεσίς τις ἐπινοῆται τῆς ἀσυνθέτου φύσεως, ὥσπερ ἡλίου καὶ τῶν ἐν ἡλίῳ· 1 καὶ αλλοι] om καὶ d1 ‘Or. Ι’ || 2 τῆ ’δε] τὼ ’δε de || 3 ἄη] ἔχει b ‘Reg. a et b’ || 4 κὰν] καὶ g || δοκει] δοκὴ b ‘Reg. a’ || 5 τρισὶν] τισιν g || 8 ἀριθμῶ] τὼ ἀριθμῶ e2 32. 10 παλιν] η πάλιν ‘tres Reg.’ 1. καἰ γὰρ καἰ ἄλλοι] Elias suggests the Clementine passage which is given by Cotelierp. 528 (ed. 1672). Cp. Tert. adv. Prax. 8. 2. μὴ τῷ μέν] ‘to to see whether.’ 3. ταῦτα γὰρ κτλ.] The mouth, the spring, and the stream are not divided by time, nor is their continuity with each other severed; and yet the three have eacli their special characteristics. 5. ῥύσιν] ‘an incessant waste, or dissipation, of Godhead.’ as in § 30. 8. ἐν ἐστιν ἀριθμῶ They are not really three distinct things, Gr. thinks ; they are only various forms or phases of the same thing, and therefore they are inadequate to express the Trinity, which is essentially three in number. 32. So with sun, ray, and light ; or with the flickering sunshine reflected from water upon a wall. 10. ἤλιον κτλ] Cp. Tert. adv. Prax. 8. 11. κἀνταῦθα δέος] This illustration likewise had its dangers. It might have suggested that the Trinity is a Trinity by some kind of composition or combination, such as the science of Gr.’s time between the su itself and the ray and the light which were ‘in’ the sun. Cp. Or. xliv 4. And secondly there was the opposite danger of suggesting that the Father alone has true positive being, while the Son and Spirit are but faculties of His, without personal subsistence, such being in Gr.’s view the character the ray and the light. δεύτερον δὲ μὴ τὸν πατέρα μὲν οὐσιώσωμεν, τἄλλα δὲ μὴ ὑποστήσωμεν, ἀλλὰ δυνάμεις θεοῦ ποιήσωμεν ἐνυπαρχούσας, οὐχ ὑφεστώσας, — οὔτε γὰρ ἀκτίς, οὔτε φῶς, ἄλλος ἥλιος, ἀλλ’ ἡλιακαί τινες ἀπόρροιαι, καὶ ποιότητες οὐσιώδεις — καὶ ἅμα τὸ εἶναι καὶ τὸ μὴ εἶναι τῷ θεῷ δῶμεν ἐν τούτοις, ὅσον ἐκ τοῦ ὑποδείγματος, ὃ καὶ τῶν εἰρημένων ἀτοπώτερον. ἤκουσα δέ τινος καὶ τοιοῦτον ὑπογράφοντος λόγον, — μαρμαρυγήν τινα ἡλιακὴν τοίχῳ προσαστράπτουσαν, καὶ περιτρέμουσαν ἐξ ὑδάτων κινήσεως, ἢν ἡ ἀκτὶς 5 θέω] + μόνω τὼ πατρὶ ‘Reg. a’: + μόνω ‘duo Coisl.’ || 6 ειρημενων] προειρημένων ‘duo Coisl.’ || 9 η ἀκτὶς] om η cd1f 2. ἐνυπαρχούσας] Existing only in Him, as attributes of His. The word is freq. in this sense in Aristtle. 3. ἄλλος ἥλιος] This, ace. to Gr., would be necessary to make the illustration complete. Cp. § 14, and § 30 ἄλλον θεόν. The ray is not the equal of the luminous body which gives it off; whereas in the Trinity there is, as it were, a sun giving off a sun. 4. ἡλιακαί τ. ἀπόρρ.] ‘solar effluences’; Gr. will not even ἡλίου ἀπόρρ., because it might suggest that, once flowing forth, the effluence has some kind of independent existence, whereas his point is that the ray and the light are but properties of the sun. This is further brought out by the addition καὶ ποιότ. οὖσ’. ‘and essential qualities.’ By οὐσιώδεις Gr. seems from the context to mean ’belonging to the nature of the sun.’ Elsewhere, the word is used in a way that would give an almost opposite meaning ; e.g. Or. xli 11 οὐκέτι ἐνεργείᾳ παρὸν ὡς πρότερον, οὐσιωδῶς δέ, ὡς ἂν εἴποι τις, συγγινόμενον ; Cyr. Hier. Cat. Myst. iii 1 πνεύματος ἁγίου οὐσιώδης ἐπιφοίτησις. Ace. to these examples, ποιότητες οὐσιώδεις would rather mean ‘real, substantive qualities.’ In order to suit context, we should then have to understand οὐσιώδεις to have something of a concessive force, ‘qualities after all, however real and substantive.’ 5. καὶ ἄμα τὸ εἶναι κτλ.] The gloss μόνῳ τῷ πατρί gives the right direction for understanding the passage: it means that if we are content with the illustration, we attribute τὸ εἶναι only to the Father, and withhold it from the Son and Spirit. Ἐν τούτοις = in the Persons so conceived of. Thus to ‘God’ (in the sense of ὅλος θεός iv 6) we should ‘attribute at the same time existence and non-existence.’ 7. ἤκουσα δέ τινος] ‘I once heard a man offering the following It is unknown who the man was. 8. μαρμαρυγήν τινα] The illustration, tration, though attractive to the poetical imagination of Gr., is not immediately clear. It seems at first as if the trinity were the sunbeam, the water, and the wall, which combine to produce the παλμός, the dancing and quivering reflexion. The point, however, appears to lie rather in the junction of unity with multiplicity (the number three being for the moment lost sight of) displayed in the vibrations of the sunbeam. ὑπολαβοῦσα διὰ τοῦ ἐν μέσῳ ἀέρος, εἶτα σχεθεῖσα τῷ ἀντιτύπῳ, παλμὸς ἐγένετο καὶ παράδοξος. ἄττει γὰρ πολλαῖς καὶ πυκναῖς ταῖς κινήσεσιν, οὐχ ἓν οὖσα μᾶλλον ἢ πολλά, οὐδὲ πολλὰ μᾶλλον ἢ ἕν, τῷ τάχει τῆς συνόδου καὶ τῆς διαστάσεως, πρὶν ὄψει κρατηθῆναι, διαδιδράσκουσα.

Ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τοῦτο θέσθαι δυνατὸν ἐμοί, δι’ ἓν μέν, ὅτι τὴν μὲν τὸ κινῆσαν καὶ πάνυ δῆλον· θεοῦ δὲ οὐδὲν πρεσβύτερον, ἵν ᾖ τι τὸ τοῦτον κεκινηκός. αὐτὸς μὲν γὰρ πάντων αἰτία, αἰτίαν δὲ πρεσβυτέραν οὐκ ἔχει. δεύτερον δέ, ὅτι κἀνταῦθα τῶν αὐτῶν ὑπόνοια, συνθέσεως, χύσεως, ἀστάτου καὶ οὐ παγίας φύσεως, ὧν οὐδὲν ἐννοητέον περὶ θεότητος. καὶ ὅλως οὐδὲν ἔστιν ὅ μοι τὴν διάνοιαν ἵστησιν ἐπὶ τῶν ὑποδειγμάτων θεωροῦντι τὸ φανταζόμενον, πλὴν 1 σχεθεισα] χεθεισα ῾El.’ 33. 6 τουτο] τουτω ag ‘tres Colb.’ || 11 ἐννοητέον] cetera desunt in a 1. ὑπολαβοῦσα] ῾assuming,’ ῾catching.’ ib. διὰ τοῦ ἐν μ. ἀέρος] ῾by means of the intervening air.’ Ace. Gr.’s theory, it is the air the water and the wall which communicates to the sunbeam the motion of the water. Cp. ii 12, 13, 22. ib. σχεθεῖσσ τῷ ἀντ’.] ῾arrested by the resisting substance.’ Cp. ii 26 ἀντιτυπούμεναι. 2. παλμὸς ἐγ. καἰ παράδ.] ῾becomes (gnom. aor.) α quivering that quite surprises you.’ ib. ἄττει] = ἀίσσει, ῾vibrates.’ 33. It is α misleading comparison. We do best to content ourselves with the few words given us by revelation for our guidance, and so to press on through life, endeavouring to bring all to join in worshipping Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, in one Godhead. 6. θέσθαι] ῾to lay down as my own.’ 7. τὴν μὲν τὸ κ.] ῾it is very clear what moves the sumbeam.’ contrasted phrase would strictly have run θεὸν δὲ οὐδὲν κινεῖ οὐδόν ἐστι τὸ κινοῦν). 10. τῶν αὐτῶν ὑπ’.] ῾there is a suspicion (or perh. a notion) of the same things.’ things’ as in the case former illustrations. ib. χύσεως] might seem to be in favour of Elias’ reading above. But the point of the illustration there does not lie in that word, whether χεθ. be read, or σχέθ’. Χύσις represents the ῾shedding,’ whether of light or of water, which implies dissipation. 11. ἀστάτου] repeats the στάσιν οὐκ ἔχουσαν of § 31. Cp. Poem. iii 64 οὔτε τις ἐξ ὑδάτων κινήμασιν ἡλιακοῖσι μαρμαρυγή, τοίχοισι περίτρομος, ἀστατέουσα, πρὶν πελάσαι φεύγουσα, πάρος φυγέειν πελάουσα. οὐδὲ γὰρ ἄστατός ἐστι θεοῦ φύσις, ἠὲ μούσα ἠὲ πάλιν συνιοῦσα· τὸ δ’ ἐμπεδόν ἐστι θεοῖο. 12. τὴν διάνοιαν ἵστησιν] ῾nothing to satisfy my mind (lit. which brings it to a stop) when I contemplate illustrations the image which I form.’ εἴ τις ἕν τι λαβὼν τῆς εἰκόνος, ὑπ’ εὐγνωμοσύνης τὰ λοιπὰ ῥίψειε. τέλος οὖν ἔδοξέ μοι κράτιστον εἶναι τὰς μὲν εἰκόνας χαίρειν ἐᾶσαι καὶ τὰς σκιάς, ὡς ἀπατηλὰς καὶ τῆς ἀληθείας πλεῖστον ἀποδεούσας, αὐτὸν δὲ τῆς εὐσεβεστέρας ἐννοίας ἐχόμενον, ἐπ’ ὀλίγων ῥημάτων ἱστάμενον, ὁδηγῷ τῷ πνεύματι χρώμενον, ἢν ἐντεῦθεν ἔλλαμψιν ἐδεξάμην, ταύτην εἰς τέλος διαφυλάσσοντα, ὡς γνησίαν κοινωνὸν καὶ συνόμιλον, τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦτον διαπορεύεσθαι διατέμνοντα, καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους πείθειν εἰς δύναμιν προσκυνεῖν πατέρα, καὶ υἱόν, καὶ πνεῦμα ἅγιον, τὴν μίαν θεότητά τε καὶ δύναμιν· ὅτι αὐτῷ πᾶσα δόξα, τιμή, κράτος, εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων· Ἀμήν.