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were gathered with the God of Abraham.” 27.16 But they were gathered in the church with the God who became man, about whom it is sung in the second psalm: “Why did the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth stood by, and the rulers gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.” 27.17 But Isaiah proclaims him as incomparable as God the Father: “From of old we have not heard, nor have our eyes seen a God besides you.” 27.18 For we have seen no other God than the one born of the virgin Mary according to the saving incarnation, nor have we heard, except the one testified to by God the Father: 27.19 “This is my beloved Son,” 27.20 and again, as was said before: “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulder. And his name will be called Mighty God, Ruler, Prince of Peace, Father of the age to come.” 27.21 And after other things he adds: “and of his peace there will be no end.” 27.22 The Son, he says, of God, having become man, was born a child and was given to us, bearing himself on his own shoulder the beginning of this his birth below, that is: he himself being his own beginning in being born impassibly of a virgin and ineffably incarnate from her, not providing a beginning from intercourse with a man. 27.23 And his name: “Mighty God, Ruler.” 27.24 He did not say: “under authority,” but he revealed his nature, his power, his sovereignty. 27.25 David, knowing this name, sings in the Psalms: “Let them know that your name is Lord; you alone are the Most High over all the earth,” saying “alone” because of the one divinity. 27.26 But he called him Father of the age to come, being also the creator of the past ages, because from the time of the economy he was greatly known to men. 27.27 Therefore he called him father of a created and not an uncreated nature; for the Father of the uncreated and consubstantial Son is one. 27.28 And showing the immeasurability of his divinity, he said: “of his peace there is no end.” 27.29 And Jeremiah, or rather Baruch—for the book is one for both—solemnly speaks about him: “This is our God; no other shall be accounted of in comparison with him. He found out all the way of knowledge, and gave it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved. Afterward he was seen upon earth, and conversed with men.” 27.30 If, therefore, it were not understood in a manner befitting God, that because of the identity of the divinity of both of the ineffable hypostases the preceding scripture was thus spoken, it remains for one who denies God to say that the one who begot, he himself God and Father, is not our God nor is compared with his Son. 27.31 Therefore the argument of those who slander God the Word as lesser and a minister has collapsed and utterly vanished. 27.32 For how could another be incomparable to God, “with whom no other shall be accounted”? 27.33 and again: “The gods who did not make the heaven and the earth shall perish from upon the earth; the Lord, who made the heavens in understanding, he is the living and true God,” as if no other divinity is true, except that of the genuine Son of God, through whom and from whom and by whom, together with the whole world, the heavens were also brought forth. 27.34 And Paul, preeminent among men, keeping the same sequence as the prophets, delivers the fitting words about him, writing to Titus: “awaiting the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.” 27.35 For by proclaiming “our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ” he shows that he is not secondary in essence and is without beginning in relation to the great God and Father. 27.36 For even according to what is apparent, it is possible to see that if the Son is small, how will the Father be great? 27.37 if "4there was when he was not"5 God the Word, there was when the name of Father did not exist. 27.38 But may he be merciful to us who dare to say such things on account of the ignorance of others. 27.39 “For piety

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συνήχθησαν μετὰ τοῦ θεοῦ Ἀβραάμ». 27.16 συνεκκλησιάσθησαν δὲ μετὰ τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ἐνανθρωπήσαντος, περὶ οὗ ᾄδεται ἐν βʹ ψαλμῷ· «ἱνατί ἐφρύαξαν ἔθνη καὶ λαοὶ ἐμελέτησαν κενά; παρέστησαν οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες συνήχθησαν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ κατὰ τοῦ κυρίου καὶ κατὰ τοῦ χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ». 27.17 Ἠσαΐας δὲ ἀσύγκριτον αὐτὸν ὡς τὸν θεὸν πατέρα βοᾷ· «ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος οὐκ ἠκούσαμεν οὐδὲ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν εἶδον θεὸν πλὴν σοῦ». 27.18 ἄλλον γὰρ οὐκ εἴδομεν θεὸν ἢ τὸν ἐκ παρθένου Μαρίας κατὰ τὴν σωτήριον ἐνανθρώπησιν τεχθέντα οὐδὲ ἠκούσαμεν, εἰ μὴ τὸν μαρτυρηθέντα ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ πατρός· 27.19 «οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός» 27.20 καὶ πάλιν, ὡς προελέχθη· «παιδίον ἐγεννήθη ἡμῖν, υἱὸς καὶ ἐδόθη, οὗ ἡ ἀρχὴ ἐπὶ τοῦ ὤμου αὐτοῦ· καὶ καλεῖται τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ θεὸς ἰσχυρός, ἐξουσιαστής, ἄρχων εἰρήνης, πατὴρ τοῦ μέλλοντος αἰῶνος». 27.21 μεθ' ἕτερά τε ἐπάγει· «καὶ τῆς εἰρήνης αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἔστιν ὅριον». 27.22 ὁ υἱός, φησίν, τοῦ θεοῦ ἐνανθρωπήσας ἐγεννήθη παιδίον καὶ ἐδόθη ἡμῖν φέρων αὐτὸς ἐπὶ τοῦ ὤμου αὐτοῦ ταύτης αὐτοῦ τῆς κάτω γεννήσεως τὴν ἀρχήν, τοῦτ' ἔστιν· αὐτὸς ἑαυτοῦ ἀρχὴ τυγχάνων ἐν τῷ ἀρεύστως ὑπὸ παρθένου καὶ ἐξ αὐτῆς ἀρρήτως σαρκωθέντα τεχθῆναι, συνουσίας ἀνδρὸς ἀρχὴν οὐ παρασχόμενος. 27.23 ὄνομα δὲ αὐτῷ· «θεὸς ἰσχυρός, ἐξουσιαστής». 27.24 οὐκ εἶπεν· «ὑπεξούσιος», ἀλλ' ἐφανέρωσεν αὐτοῦ τὴν φύσιν, τὴν δύναμιν, τὴν αὐθεντείαν. 27.25 Ὅπερ ὄνομα γινώσκων ∆αυῒδ ψάλλει· «γνώτωσαν, ὅτι ὄνομά σοι κύριος· σὺ εἶ μόνος ὕψιστος ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν», τό «μόνος» διὰ τὴν μίαν θεότητα εἰπών. 27.26 Πατέρα δὲ αὐτὸν μέλλοντος ἐκάλεσεν αἰῶνος, ὄντα καὶ τῶν παρελθόντων αἰώνων δημιουργὸν διὰ τὸ ἀπὸ χρόνου τοῦ τῆς οἰκονομίας ἐγνῶσθαι αὐτὸν πολὺ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις. 27.27 κτιστῆς τοίνυν καὶ οὐκ ἀκτίστου φύσεως εἶπεν αὐτὸν πατέρα· εἷς γὰρ ὁ ἀκτίστου καὶ ὁμοουσίου υἱοῦ πατήρ. 27.28 παραδεικνὺς δὲ τῆς θεότητος αὐτοῦ τὸ ἀμέγεθες ἔφη· «τῆς εἰρήνης αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἔστιν ὅριον». 27.29 Καὶ Ἱερεμίας δὲ ἤτοι Βαρούχ βίβλος γὰρ μία ἀμφοτέρων ἐστίν σεμνηγορεῖ περὶ αὐτοῦ· «οὗτος ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν· οὐ λογισθήσεται ἕτερος πρὸς αὐτόν. ἐξεῦρεν πᾶσαν ὁδὸν ἐπιστήμης καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὴν Ἰακὼβ τῷ παιδὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ Ἰσραὴλ τῷ ἠγαπημένῳ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ· μετὰ ταῦτα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὤφθη καὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις συνανεστράφη». 27.30 Εἰ οὖν μὴ θεοπρεπῶς νοηθείη, ὅτι διὰ τὸ ταυτὸν τῆς θεότητος ἄμφω τῶν ἀπορρήτων ὑποστάσεων ἡ προκειμένη γραφὴ οὕτως ἐρρήθη, λείπεται ἀθεήσαντα εἰπεῖν, ὅτι ὁ τεκὼν αὐτὸς θεὸς καὶ πατὴρ οὐ θεὸς ἡμῶν οὐδὲ συγκρίνεται τῷ υἱῷ αὐτοῦ. 27.31 Ἐκπέπτωκεν δὴ οὖν καὶ εἰσπάμπαν ἠφάνισται ὁ λόγος τῶν διαβαλλόντων μικρότερον καὶ ὑπουργὸν τὸν θεὸν λόγον. 27.32 πῶς γὰρ ἂν ἄλλος εἴη ἀσύγκριτος πρὸς τὸν θεόν, «πρὸς ὃν οὐ λογισθήσεται ἕτερος»; 27.33 καὶ πάλιν· «θεοί, οἳ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν οὐκ ἐποίησαν, ἀπολέσθωσαν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς· κύριος, ὃς ἐποίησεν τοὺς οὐρανοὺς ἐν συνέσει, αὐτὸς θεὸς ζῶν καὶ ἀληθινός», ὡς ἄλλης θεότητος μὴ οὔσης ἀληθινῆς, εἰ μὴ τῆς τοῦ γνησίου υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ, δι' οὗ καὶ παρ' οὗ καὶ παρ' οὗ ἅμα παντὶ τῷ κόσμῳ καὶ οἱ οὐρανοὶ παρεκομίσθησαν. 27.34 Καὶ ὁ ἔξοχος δὲ ἀνδρῶν Παῦλος τὴν αὐτὴν ἀκολουθίαν τοῖς προφήταις τηρῶν τοὺς πρέποντας περὶ αὐτοῦ ἀποδίδωσι λόγους, γράφων Τίτῳ μέν· «προσδεχόμενοι τὴν μακαρίαν ἐλπίδα καὶ ἐπιφάνειαν τῆς δόξης τοῦ μεγάλου θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ δόντος ἑαυτὸν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν, ἵνα λυτρώ σηται ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ πάσης ἀνομίας καὶ καθαρίσῃ ἑαυτῷ λαὸν περιούσιον, ζηλω τὴν ἔργων». 27.35 ∆ιὰ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ ἀναφθέγγεσθαι «τοῦ μεγάλου θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ» δηλοῖ τὸ μὴ δευτέρως ἔχειν κατ' οὐσίαν καὶ τὸ ἄναρχον πρὸς τὸν μέγα θεὸν πατέρα. 27.36 καὶ κατὰ τὸ φαινόμενον γὰρ ἔστι συνιδεῖν, ὅτι εἰ μικρὸς ὁ υἱός, πῶς ἔσται μέγας ὁ πατήρ; 27.37 εἰ "4ἦν, ὅτε οὐκ ἦν"5 ὁ θεὸς λόγος, ἦν, ὅτε πατρὸς ὄνομα οὐχ ὑπῆρχεν. 27.38 ἔστω δὲ ἵλεω ἡμῖν τοιαῦτα λέγειν τολμῶσιν διὰ τὴν ἄλλων ἀγνωμοσύνην. 27.39 «ἡ γὰρ εὐλάβεια