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of reverence and fitting acceptance to search the scriptures. 18.2 It is necessary, therefore, having passed over their incredible collections of rubbish and contentions and having washed, as the saying goes, our salty ears with the intelligible, drinkable water of the Holy Spirit, to show that the scriptures, on account of the identity of the Godhead, sometimes name one of the divine hypostases, and at other times the three, and they assign the good equally to each of them, 18.3 as when Moses says: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is one Lord,” having declared the one Godhead by saying “one,” and having signified the Trinity by “Lord,” then “God,” and again “Lord,” from which every worldly and super-worldly good has existed and will exist for humans; and again: “God said: Let there be a firmament, and God made the firmament, and God saw that it was good”; it must be noted that it both names three hypostases and calls each God and shows the harmony and cooperation of the one who spoke and the one who made and the one who praised. 18.4 And again: “God commands,” it says, “Moses, saying: Speak to Aaron and his sons: Thus you shall bless Israel: The Lord bless you and keep you, the Lord make his face shine upon you and be merciful to you, the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.” 18.5 In order to declare three persons, he did not say once: “The Lord bless you and shine upon you and give you peace,” but he named “Lord” a third time. 18.6 And as when they prophesy, Haggai bringing an oracle from the person of the Father, a voice having it thus: “Be strong, Zerubbabel, because I am with you; and my good word and my spirit in your midst”; 18.7 and Isaiah saying that the sending came to be of equal honor from the self-sufficient hypostases of equal honor, and in a short phrase indicating all their fellowship and crying out: “and now the Lord Lord has sent me, and his Spirit.” 18.8 For he did not simply name “Lord Lord” a second time and then “his Spirit,” but in order to declare both the hypostases and the one Godhead and will. 18.9 For David also himself supports such a main point and makes all things full of song and reveals how he had faith according to these words: in the 17th psalm: “Who is God except the Lord, and who is God besides our God? The God who girds me with strength”; 18.10 and in the 58th: “You, O God, are my helper. My God, his mercy will go before me. My God will show me among my enemies.” 18.11 and in the 95th: “Sing to the Lord a new song, sing to the Lord, all the earth, sing to the Lord, bless his name.” 18.12 For by naming either Lord or God a third time, he signified the Trinity. 18.13 But also Hannah, praying in Kingdoms, invoked the Trinity, saying: “Adonai, Lord, Elohei Sabaoth.” 18.14 For “Adonai” in the Hebrew language is interpreted: Lord; and again in the Greek language he said “Lord.” And a third time in Hebrew he said “Elohei Sabaoth,” which is: God of hosts, or of powers. 18.15 And now also Elijah the Tishbite in the history of the third of Kingdoms, having prayed for the son of the Sidonian widow, being dead, to be brought back to life, breathed into him a third time and so raised him, 18.16 by this all but signifying that he himself in prayer invoked the life-giving Trinity, but also teaching us not to believe and glorify otherwise. 18.17 And exhorting the water-bearers, “do it a second time” and “do it a third time,” he signified that the three all-praised hypostases act with equal power and equal honor everywhere in all things. 18.18 But if you wish, I will make the matter in question known to you again also from a divine voice. 18.19 For in the book of Genesis, at the building of the tower, God the Father revealed the blessed hypostases to his own Son and his Holy Spirit, having said: “Come, let us go down and there confuse their tongues, so that each may not hear the voice of his neighbor.” 18.20 And Moses, declaring the equality of the Trinity, as I think, set forth one vine in three

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αἰδοῦς καὶ τῆς ἐναρμοττούσης ἀποδοχῆς διερευνᾶν τὰς γραφάς. 18.2 ἀναγκαῖον δὲ λοιπὸν τὰς ἀπιθάνους αὐτῶν συρφετολογίας καὶ διαμάχας παρελθόντας καὶ τῷ νοητῷ ποτίμῳ ὕδατι τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος τὰς ἁλμυράς, τὸ δὴ λεγόμενον, ἀποκλυσαμένους ἀκοὰς ἐπιδεῖξαι, ὅτιπερ αἱ γραφαὶ διὰ τὸ ταὐτὸν τῆς θεότητος ποτὲ μὲν μίαν τῶν θείων ὑποστάσεων, ποτὲ δὲ τὰς τρεῖς ὀνομάζουσιν, καὶ ἑκάστῃ αὐτῶν ὁμοίως τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἀπονέμουσιν, 18.3 ὡς ὅταν λέγῃ Μωϋσῆς· «ἄκουε, Ἰσραήλ, κύριος ὁ θεός σου κύριος εἷς ἐστιν», διὰ τοῦ εἰπεῖν «εἷς» δηλώσας τὴν μίαν θεότητα, διὰ δὲ τοῦ «κύριος», εἶτα «θεὸς» καὶ πάλιν «κύριος» τὴν τριάδα σημάνας, παρ' ᾗ πᾶν ἐγκόσμιον καὶ ὑπερκόσμιον ἀγαθὸν ὑπῆρξεν καὶ ὑπάρξει τοῖς ἀνθρώποις· καὶ πάλιν· «εἶπεν ὁ θεός· γενηθήτω στερέωμα, καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸ στερέωμα, καὶ εἶδεν ὁ θεός, ὅτι καλόν»· σημειωτέον, ὅτι καὶ τρεῖς ὑποστάσεις καὶ ἑκάστην θεὸν ὀνομάζει καὶ τὴν συμφωνίαν καὶ τὴν συνεργίαν δείκνυσιν τοῦ εἰπόντος καὶ τοῦ ποιήσαντος καὶ τοῦ ἐπαινέσαντος. 18.4 Καὶ πάλιν· «προστάττει», φησίν, «ὁ θεὸς τῷ Μωϋσεῖ λέγων· λάλησον Ἀαρὼν καὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτοῦ· οὕτως εὐλογήσετε τὸν Ἰσραήλ· εὐλογήσαι σε κύριος καὶ φυλάξαι σε, ἐπιφάναι κύριος τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἐπί σε καὶ ἐλεήσαι σε, ἐπάραι κύριος τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἐπί σε καὶ δῴη σοι εἰρήνην». 18.5 ἵνα δηλώσῃ τρία πρόσωπα, οὐκ εἶπεν ἅπαξ· «κύριος εὐλογήσαι σε καὶ ἐπιφάναι σοι καὶ δῴη σοι εἰρήνην», ἀλλὰ τρίτον ὠνόμασεν «κύριον». 18.6 Καὶ ὣς ἡνίκα προφητεύουσιν Ἀγγαῖος μὲν θεόχρηστον ἐκ προσώπου τοῦ πατρὸς φέρων φωνὴν οὕτως ἔχουσαν· «ἴσχυε, Ζοροβάβελ, διότι ἐγὼ μεθ' ὑμῶν εἰμι· καὶ ὁ λόγος μου ὁ ἀγαθὸς καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα μου ἐν μέσῳ ὑμῶν»· 18.7 Ἠσαΐας δὲ ἐξ ὁμοτίμων τῶν αὐτοτελῶν ὑποστάσεων ὁμότιμον τὴν ἀποστολὴν γεγενῆσθαι λέγων καὶ ἐν ὀλίγῃ ῥήσει πᾶσαν κοινωνίαν αὐτῶν ἐνδεικνύμενος καὶ βοῶν· «καὶ νῦν κύριος κύριος ἀπέσταλκέν με καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ». 18.8 οὐ γὰρ ἁπλῶς δεύτερον ὠνόμασεν «κύριος κύριος» καὶ οὕτω «τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ», ἀλλ' ἵνα καὶ τὰς ὑποστάσεις καὶ τὴν μίαν δηλώσῃ θεότητα καὶ θέλησιν. 18.9 ∆αυῒδ δέ καὶ γὰρ καὶ αὐτὸς ἀρήγει τῷ τοιῷδε κεφαλαίῳ καὶ ᾠδῆς ἔμπλεα πάντα ποιεῖ καὶ ἐκφαίνει, ὅπῃ πίστεως ἔσχεν κατὰ τάσδε τὰς λέξεις· ἐν μὲν ιζʹ ψαλμῷ· «τίς θεὸς πάρεξ τοῦ κυρίου καὶ τίς θεὸς πλὴν τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν; ὁ θεὸς ὁ περι ζωννύων με δύναμιν»· 18.10 ἐν δὲ νηʹ· «σὺ ὁ θεὸς ἀντιλήπτωρ μου εἶ. ὁ θεός μου, τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ αὐτοῦ προφθάσει με. ὁ θεός μου δείξει μοι ἐν τοῖς ἐχθροῖς μου». 18.11 ἐν δὲ ϟεʹ· «ᾄσατε τῷ κυρίῳ ᾆσμα καινόν, ᾄσατε τῷ κυρίῳ, πᾶσα ἡ γῆ, ᾄσατε τῷ κυρίῳ, εὐλογήσατε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ». 18.12 τρίτον γὰρ ὀνομάσας ἢ κύριον ἢ θεὸν τὴν τριάδα παρεδήλωσεν. 18.13 Ἀλλὰ καὶ Ἅννα εἰς τὰς βασιλείας προσευχομένη τὴν τριάδα ἐπεκαλέσατο εἰποῦσα· «ἀδωναί, κύριε, ἐλωεὶ σαβαώθ». 18.14 ἑρμηνεύεται γὰρ τῇ ἑβραΐδι φωνῇ τὸ «ἀδωναί»· κύριος· καὶ πάλιν ἑλλάδι φωνῇ εἶπεν «κύριος». καὶ τρίτον ἑβραϊστὶ ἔφη «ἐλωεὶ σαβαώθ», ὅπερ ἐστί· θεὲ στρατιῶν ἤτοι δυνάμεων. 18.15 ἤδη δὲ νῦν καὶ Ἠλίας ὁ Θεσβίτης ἐν τῇ τρίτῃ τῶν βασιλειῶν ἱστορίᾳ, τῆς Σιδωνίας χήρας τὸν υἱὸν νεκρὸν ὄντα ἀναβιῶναι εὐξάμενος, τρίτον ἐνεφύσησεν εἰς αὐτὸν καὶ οὕτως ἀνέστησεν, 18.16 ἐκ τούτου μονονουχὶ σημάνας, ὡς αὐτὸς ἐν τῇ προσευχῇ τὴν ζωοποιὸν ἐπεκαλέσατο τριάδα, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡμᾶς μὴ ἄλλως πιστεύειν καὶ δοξάζειν διδάξας. 18.17 Καὶ τοῖς ὑδροφόροις δὲ παρακελευόμενος «δισσεύσατε» καί «τρισσεύσατε», τὰς τρεῖς πανυμνήτους ὑποστάσεις ἰσοδυνάμως καὶ ὁμοτίμως πανταχοῦ ἐν πᾶσιν ἐνεργεῖν παρεδήλου. 18.18 Εἰ δὲ βούλεσθε, γνώριμον ὑμῖν καὶ ἐκ θείας φωνῆς αὖθις τὸ κινούμενον ποιήσω. 18.19 ἐν γὰρ βίβλῳ γενέσεως, ἐν τῇ πυργοποιΐᾳ ὁ θεὸς καὶ πατὴρ τὰς μακαρίας ὑποστάσεις ἐξέφηνεν πρὸς τὸν ἑαυτοῦ υἱὸν καὶ τὸ ἅγιον αὐτοῦ πνεῦμα εἰρηκώς· «δεῦτε καταβάντες συγχέωμεν ἐκεῖ αὐτῶν τὰς γλώσσας, ἵνα μὴ ἀκούσωσιν ἕκαστος τὴν φωνὴν τοῦ πλησίον». 18.20 Καὶ Μωϋσῆς δὲ τὴν ἰσότητα τῆς τριάδος, ὡς οἶμαι, δηλῶν ἐξέθετο μίαν ἄμπελον ἐν τρισὶ