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Table, with God, of the philosophical chapters of Damascene <Proem-Epistle> αʹ Concerning being, both substance and accident (ῃ. ινφρα ιβʹ) (ῃ. ινφρα ιγʹ) (ῃ. ινφρα ιδʹ) βʹ Concerning genus and species, the most general and the most specific and those under one another γʹ Concerning the individual δʹ Concerning difference εʹ Concerning accident ϛʹ Concerning property ζʹ Concerning the predicables ηʹ Concerning synonymous and homonymous predication θʹ Concerning predication in [the category of] 'what it is' and predication in [the category of] 'what sort of thing it is' ιʹ Concerning hypostasis, the enhypostatic, and the anhypostatic ιαʹ Concerning substance and nature and form, both of the individual and of the person and of the hypostasis ιβʹ Concerning division ιγʹ Concerning that which is prior by nature ιδʹ Concerning definition ιεʹ Concerning homonyms ιϛʹ Concerning synonyms ιζʹ Concerning polyonyms ιηʹ Concerning different things and heteronyms ιθʹ Concerning paronyms κʹ Concerning the ten most general genera καʹ Concerning things of the same genus and of the same species, and of different genus and of different species, and differing in number κβʹ Concerning being 'in something' κγʹ Concerning substance κδʹ Concerning nature κεʹ Concerning form κϛʹ Concerning hypostasis κζʹ Concerning person κηʹ Concerning the enhypostatic κθʹ Concerning the anhypostatic λʹ Division of being and of substance λαʹ Concerning what is the property of substance λβʹ Further concerning things of the same genus and of the same species, and of different genus and of different species, and of the same hypostasis, and differing in number λγʹ Concerning quantity and how much λδʹ Concerning relatives λεʹ Concerning quality and what sort λϛʹ Concerning acting and being acted upon λζʹ Concerning position ληʹ Concerning where λθʹ Concerning when μʹ Concerning having μαʹ Concerning opposites μβʹ Concerning possession and privation μγʹ Concerning prior and posterior μδʹ Concerning 'at the same time' μεʹ Concerning motion μϛʹ Concerning having μζʹ Concerning assertion, both of negation and of affirmation μηʹ Concerning term and proposition and syllogism μθʹ There are six definitions of philosophy νʹ Concerning the hypostatic union (Another chapter) <Proem Epistle> To the most holy and God-honored Cosmas, most holy bishop of Maiuma, John the monk. Knowing the narrowness of my own mind and the poverty of my tongue, I hesitated, O blessed one, to undertake things beyond my power and to dare the impossible like some self-willed and rash person, wary of the danger hanging over those who dare such things. For if Moses, that divine lawgiver, who withdrew from every human sight and left behind the tempests of life and wiped away every material image and cleansed the eye of the soul and thence became fit for the vision of God, who was deemed worthy to behold in a bush and in immaterial fire the philanthropic condescension of the Word of God towards us and His supernatural incarnation, a fire that burned and set aflame the thornbush and changed it to its own brightness, yet did not consume or destroy it, nor indeed did it remove it from its own nature, he who was first initiated into the name of Him who is and who is truly above substance, when he was entrusted by God with the leadership of his own people and kinsmen, called himself of a feeble voice and a slow tongue, as not being able to minister to the divine will and to bring this to light and a mediator of God and

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Πίναξ σὺν θεῷ τῶν φιλοσόφων κεφαλαίων τοῦ ∆αμασκηνοῦ <Προοίμιον-Ἐπιστολή> αʹ Περὶ τοῦ ὄντος οὐσίας τε καὶ συμβεβηκότος (ῃ. ινφρα ιβʹ) (ῃ. ινφρα ιγʹ) (ῃ. ινφρα ιδʹ) βʹ Περὶ γένους καὶ εἴδους, τοῦ γενικωτάτου καὶ τοῦ εἰδικωτάτου καὶ τῶν ὑπ αλλήλων γʹ Περὶ ἀτόμου δʹ Περὶ διαφορᾶς εʹ Περὶ συμβεβηκότος ϛʹ Περὶ ἰδίου ζʹ Περὶ τῶν κατηγορουμέ νων ηʹ Περὶ συνωνύμου καὶ ὁμω νύμου κατηγορίας θʹ Περὶ τῆς ἐν τῷ τί ἐστι κατηγορίας καὶ τῆς ἐν τῷ ὁποῖόν τί ἐστι κατηγο ρίας ιʹ Περὶ ὑποστάσεως καὶ ἐν υποστάτου καὶ ἀνυπο στάτου ιαʹ Περὶ οὐσίας καὶ φύσεως καὶ μορφῆς ἀτόμου τε καὶ προσώπου καὶ ὑποστά σεως ιβʹ Περὶ διαιρέσεως ιγʹ Περὶ τοῦ φύσει προτέρου ιδʹ Περὶ ὁρισμοῦ ιεʹ Περὶ ὁμωνύμων ιϛʹ Περὶ συνωνύμων ιζʹ Περὶ πολυωνύμων ιηʹ Περὶ ἑτέρων καὶ ἑτερωνύ μων ιθʹ Περὶ παρωνύμων κʹ Περὶ τῶν δέκα γενικωτά των γενῶν καʹ Περὶ ὁμογενῶν καὶ ὁμοει δῶν ἑτερογενῶν τε καὶ ἑτεροειδῶν καὶ ἀριθμῷ διαφερόντων κβʹ Περὶ τοῦ ἔν τινι κγʹ Περὶ οὐσίας κδʹ Περὶ φύσεως κεʹ Περὶ μορφῆς κϛʹ Περὶ ὑποστάσεως κζʹ Περὶ προσώπου κηʹ Περὶ ἐνυποστάτου κθʹ Περὶ ἀνυποστάτου λʹ ∆ιαίρεσις τοῦ ὄντος καὶ τῆς οὐσίας λαʹ Περὶ τοῦ τί ὑπάρχει ἴδιον τῆς οὐσίας λβʹ Ἔτι περὶ ὁμογενῶν καὶ ὁμοειδῶν ἑτερογενῶν τε καὶ ἑτεροειδῶν καὶ ὁμο ϋποστάτων καὶ ἀριθμῷ διαφερόντων λγʹ Περὶ ποσοῦ καὶ ποσότη τος λδʹ Περὶ τῶν πρός τι λεʹ Περὶ ποιοῦ καὶ ποιότητος λϛʹ Περὶ τοῦ ποιεῖν καὶ πά σχειν λζʹ Περὶ τοῦ κεῖσθαι ληʹ Περὶ τῆς ποῦ λθʹ Περὶ τῆς ποτέ μʹ Περὶ τοῦ ἔχειν μαʹ Περὶ ἀντικειμένων μβʹ Περὶ ἕξεως καὶ στερήσεως μγʹ Περὶ προτέρου καὶ ὑστέ ρου μδʹ Περὶ τοῦ ἅμα μεʹ Περὶ κινήσεως μϛʹ Περὶ τοῦ ἔχειν μζʹ Περὶ ἀποφάνσεως ἀποφά σεώς τε καὶ καταφάσεως μηʹ Περὶ ὅρου καὶ προτάσεως καὶ συλλογισμοῦ μθʹ Ὁρισμοὶ τῆς φιλοσοφίας εἰσὶν ἕξ νʹ Περὶ τῆς καθ' ὑπόστασιν ἑνώσεως (Ἕτερον κεφάλαιον) <Προοίμιον Ἐπιστολή> Τῷ ὁσιωτάτῳ καὶ θεοτιμήτῳ Κοσμᾷ, ἁγιωτάτῳ ἐπισκόπῳ τοῦ Μαιουμᾶ, Ἰωάννης μοναχός. Τὸ μὲν στενὸν τῆς διανοίας καὶ τὸ ἄπορον τῆς γλώσσης τῆς ἐμαυτοῦ ἐπιστάμενος ὤκνουν, ὦ μακάριοι, τοῖς ὑπὲρ δύναμιν ἐγχειρεῖν καὶ τῶν ἀδυνάτων κατατολμᾶν ὥσπερ τις αὐθάδης καὶ τολμητίας τὸν ἐπηρτημένον τοῖς τὰ τοιαῦτα τολμῶσιν ὑφορώμενος κίνδυνον. Εἰ γὰρ Μωυσῆς, ἐκεῖνος ὁ θεῖος νομοθέτης, ὁ πάσης ἀνθρωπίνης θέας ἀποχωρήσας καὶ τοῦ βίου τὰς τρικυμίας καταλιπὼν καὶ πᾶσαν ὑλικὴν ἀποσμηξάμενος ἔμφασιν καὶ τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ὀπτικὸν καθῃράμενος κἀντεῦθεν πρὸς θεοπτίαν γενόμενος ἐπιτήδειος, ὁ τὴν πρὸς ἡμᾶς τοῦ θεοῦ λόγου φιλάνθρωπον συγκατάβασιν καὶ τὴν αὐτοῦ ὑπερφυᾶ σάρκωσιν ἐν βάτῳ καὶ ἀύλῳ πυρὶ κατιδεῖν ἠξιωμένος, φλέγοντι μὲν καὶ ἐκπυροῦντι τὴν ἄκανθαν καὶ πρὸς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ λαμπρότητα μεταβάλλοντι, οὐ καταφλέγοντι δὲ οὐδὲ ἀφανίζοντι οὔτε μὴν τῆς οἰκείας αὐτὴν ἐξιστῶντι φύσεως, ὁ πρῶτος τὸ τοῦ ὄντος καὶ ἀληθῶς ὑπὲρ οὐσίαν ὄντος μεμυημένος ὄνομα, τῶν οἰκείων καὶ συμφυλετῶν τὴν προστασίαν παρὰ θεοῦ ἐγχειριζόμενος, ἰσχνόφωνον ἐκάλει ἑαυτὸν καὶ βραδύγλωσσον, ὡς οὐ δυνάμενος τῷ θείῳ ἐξυπηρετεῖσθαι βουλήματι καὶ τοῦτο πρὸς τοὐμφανὲς ἄγειν καὶ μεσίτης θεοῦ καὶ