461

in the debate, sayings inconsistent * with the mind of the truth, but being understood by him in a falsified sense. And through his deceitful speech and glibness for the establishment of both himself and his hearers * through his tongue, the noble fellow, having prepared himself and with boasting, promised to bring a hundred testimonies concerning the hypothesis. For when the audience often argued against him *, as we also found in the debate with Basil, in which they ordered stenographers to write, Anysius the deacon of Basil and Callicrates the exceptor of Rufinus the prefect and Olympius and Nicetas and Basilius, memorandists, and Eutyches and Theodulus, notaries of the emperor; and one sealed volume was sent to the emperor Constantius, and one remained in the synod against Basil, and another 3.251 volume was with the comites, likewise sealed, as the things of his suspicion † were submitted. 2. For if ever Basil asked how the divine scriptures teach concerning the Lord, the Word of God, that the only-begotten was before the ages and with the Father, Photinus for his part accepted the Word, attributing the division to Christ, but analogically assigning the human things to the Word in the highest sense. For "Let us make man in our image and likeness," he says, the Father spoke to his own Word; what then? The Word was in the Father, he says, but was not Son, and "the Lord rained from the Lord," with the Word being in the Father; and "I saw," he says, "one like a son of man coming upon the clouds"—this, he says, he said by way of pre-announcement, not as the Son existing, but because of which he was going to be called Son after Mary and to ascend with the flesh, Christ having been born of the Holy Spirit and from Mary; by prolepsis, he says, all things are referred to him from the beginning. But he was not yet Son, but was Word, just as the word is in me. And I have already said that having in part the same concepts as Paul of Samosata *, but in other respects having gone beyond him in concept. 3. And this man himself will be overthrown, having come into the ultimate denial of God and a foreign suspicion of eternal life in all things. For if the son of God is recent according to his divinity, then David has primacy, or rather is even among the preferred of him who made him. For so he himself thought, * rather, even having passed over the divine scripture according to his 3.252 own erroneous concept, and saying that the apostle also said, "the first man is from the earth, earthy, and the second is from heaven." But immediately the word of truth opposes him and refutes his darkened mind. For the holy apostle spoke of a man and a man, and that the first man, Adam, is from the earth, earthy, but the second is from heaven. And yet, he says "man"; but the flesh did not descend from heaven, but is confessed by this also to be from Mary. But he does not say "flesh" from heaven by a misuse of terms, but "the second man," since the Word came from above and "dwelt among us," according to what is written. If therefore * the Lord pre-existed. And * is present, "who found every way of understanding," and that he is, ** as the divine scripture does not doubt, * for what follows signifies him as pre-existing and his having found every way of understanding, and then "was seen on earth," it indicates the future incarnate presence. And that they say he brought the man from heaven, the apostle does not say this, but because of the union of the incarnate presence he calls him "man," and "second" because of the time between Adam and the incarnate presence; and he calls him "from heaven" because the God Word came from above and put on flesh, as it says, "the Word became flesh," not as he himself suspects, a word proceeding from the Father and changed into flesh; for thus he expounded concerning the passage according to his deceived concept. But if Adam exists before he is

461

ἐν τῇ διαλέξει ῥητὰ ἀσύστατα * πρὸς τὴν διάνοιαν τῆς ἀληθείας, ὄντα δὲ αὐτοῦ τῇ ἐννοίᾳ παραπεποιημένως νοούμενα. διὰ δὲ τῆς ἀπατηλῆς αὐτοῦ φθογγῆς καὶ ἑτοιμολογίας εἰς κατασκευὴν αὐτοῦ τε καὶ τῶν ἀκουόντων * διὰ τῆς γλώσσης αὐτοῦ, ἡτοιμασμένος καὶ μετὰ καυχήσεως περὶ τῆς ὑποθέσεως ἑκατὸν μαρτυρίας φέρειν ὁ γεννάδας ἐπηγγείλατο. καὶ γὰρ τῶν ἀκροατῶν ἀεὶ πολλάκις πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀντιβαλλόντων *, ὡς καὶ ἐν τῇ πρὸς Βασίλειον διαλέξει ηὕρομεν, ἐν οἷς ἐκέλευσαν ταχυγράφοις γράφειν, Ἀνυσίῳ διακόνῳ τοῦ Βασιλείου καὶ Καλλικράτῃ ἐκσκέπτορι Ῥουφίνου τοῦ ἐπάρχου καὶ Ὀλυμπίῳ καὶ Νικήτῃ καὶ Βασιλείῳ μεμοραδίοις καὶ Εὐτυχεῖ καὶ Θεοδούλῳ νοταρίοις τοῦ βασιλέως· καὶ ἀπεστάλη ἐσφραγισμένος τόμος εἷς τῷ βασιλεῖ Κωνσταντίῳ, εἷς δὲ ἔμεινεν ἐν τῇ κατὰ τὸν Βασίλειον συνόδῳ, καὶ ἄλλος 3.251 τόμος ἐγένετο μετὰ τῶν κομήτων, ὡσαύτως ἐσφραγισμένος, ὡς τὰ τῆς αὐτοῦ ὑπονοίας † ὑποβεβλημένα. 2. Εἴ ποτε γὰρ ὁ Βασίλειος ἠρώτησεν ὅτι πῶς αἱ θεῖαι γραφαὶ διδάσκουσι περὶ τοῦ κυρίου, τοῦ θεοῦ λόγου, πρὸ αἰώνων εἶναι τὸν μονογενῆ καὶ σὺν πατρί, ὁ Φωτεινὸς μὲν τὸν λόγον ἐδέχετο, τὰ μὲν εἰς Χριστὸν τὴν διαίρεσιν προσάπτων, τὰ δὲ εἰς τὸν λόγον ἀνωτάτω τὰ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἀναλογῶν. τὸ γάρ «ποιήσωμεν ἄνθρωπον κατ' εἰκόνα ἡμετέραν καὶ καθ' ὁμοίωσιν» τῷ λόγῳ ἑαυτοῦ, φησίν, ὁ πατὴρ εἴρηκε· τί οὖν; ὁ λόγος ἐν τῷ πατρί, φησίν, ἦν, ἀλλ' οὐκ ἦν υἱός, καὶ «ἔβρεξε κύριος παρὰ κυρίου», ἐν πατρὶ ὢν ὁ λόγος· καὶ «εἶδον» φησὶ «κατερχόμενον ἐπάνω τῶν νεφελῶν ὡς υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου» τοῦτο, φησί, προκαταγγελτικῶς ἔλεγεν, οὐχ ὡς τοῦ υἱοῦ ὑπάρχοντος, ἀλλὰ δι' ὃ ἔμελλεν υἱὸς καλεῖσθαι μετὰ τὴν Μαρίαν καὶ μετὰ τῆς σαρκὸς ἀνιέναι γεννηθεὶς ὁ Χριστὸς ἐκ πνεύματος ἁγίου καὶ ἀπὸ Μαρίας, προχρηστικῶς, φησί, τὰ πάντα ἀναφέρεται εἰς αὐτὸν ἀπ' ἀρχῆς. οὔπω δὲ ἦν υἱός, λόγος δὲ ἦν, καθάπερ ἐν ἐμοὶ ὁ λόγος. ἤδη δὲ εἶπον ὅτι ἀπὸ μέρους Παύλου τοῦ Σαμοσατέως ἔχων τὰ ὅμοια τῆς ἐννοίας *, ἕτερα δὲ ἔτι παρ' ἐκεῖνον ὑπερβεβηκὼς τῇ ἐννοίᾳ. 3. Καὶ αὐτὸς δὲ οὗτος ἀνατραπήσεται εἰς ἐσχάτην ἐλθὼν ἀρνησιθεΐαν καὶ ἀλλοτρίαν ὑπόνοιαν ζωῆς αἰωνίου ἐν ἅπασιν. εἰ γὰρ πρόσφατος ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ κατὰ τὴν θεότητα, ἄρα ὁ ∆αυὶδ πρωτεύει, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ ἐν προκριτέοις ὑπάρχει τοῦ αὐτὸν πεποιηκότος. οὕτω γὰρ καὶ αὐτὸς διενοεῖτο, * μᾶλλον καὶ παρελθὼν τὴν θείαν γραφὴν κατὰ τὴν αὐτοῦ 3.252 πεπλανημένην ἔννοιαν, καὶ φάσκων ὅτι καὶ ὁ ἀπόστολος εἴρηκεν «ὁ πρῶτος ἄνθρωπος ἐκ γῆς χοϊκός, καὶ ὁ δεύτερος ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ». εὐθὺς δὲ ἀντιπίπτει αὐτῷ ὁ λόγος τῆς ἀληθείας καὶ ἐλέγχει αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐσκοτωμένην διάνοιαν. ἄνθρωπον γὰρ καὶ ἄνθρωπον ἔφη ὁ ἅγιος ἀπόστολος, καὶ τὸν μὲν πρῶτον ἄνθρωπον τὸν Ἀδὰμ ἐκ γῆς εἶναι χοϊκόν, τὸν δὲ δεύτερον ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ. καίτοι γε ἄνθρωπον λέγων· οὐκ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ δὲ ἡ σὰρξ καταβέβηκεν, ἀλλ' ὡμολόγηται καὶ ἀπὸ τούτου ἀπὸ Μαρίας οὖσα. ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ δὲ καταχρηστικῶς οὐ λέγει σάρκα, ἀλλὰ τὸν δεύτερον ἄνθρωπον, ἐξότε ἄνωθεν ἦλθεν ὁ λόγος καὶ «ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν ἡμῖν», κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον. εἰ οὖν * προϋπῆρχεν ὁ κύριος. καὶ * πάρεστιν, «ὃς ἐφηῦρε πᾶσαν ὁδὸν συνέσεως», εἶναι δὲ αὐτόν, ** ὡς οὐκ ἀμφιβάλλει ἡ θεία γραφή, * τὰ γὰρ μετὰ ταῦτα σημαίνει προόντα καὶ τὸ ηὑρηκέναι πᾶσαν ὁδὸν συνέσεως, εἶτα «ἐπὶ γῆς ὠφθῆναι», τὴν μέλλουσαν ἔνσαρκον παρουσίαν δηλοῖ. καὶ ὅτι ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ φασι τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐνηνοχέναι, οὐ λέγει τοῦτο ὁ ἀπόστολος, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὴν συνένωσιν τῆς ἐνσάρκου παρουσίας ἄνθρωπον μὲν αὐτὸν λέγει, δεύτερον δὲ διὰ τὸν χρόνον τὸν μεταξὺ Ἀδὰμ καὶ τῆς ἐνσάρκου παρουσίας· ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ δὲ αὐτὸν λέγει διὰ τὸ ἄνωθεν ἡκέναι τὸν θεὸν λόγον καὶ σάρκα ἐνδύσασθαι, ὥς φησιν, «ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο», οὐχ ὡς αὐτὸς ὑπονοεῖ λόγον ἐκ πατρὸς προελθόντα καὶ εἰς σάρκα μεταβεβλημένον· οὕτω γὰρ κατὰ τὴν ἠπατημένην αὐτοῦ ἔννοιαν διηγήσατο περὶ τοῦ τόπου. εἰ δὲ ἔστιν Ἀδὰμ πρὸ τοῦ εἶναι