(there are many of them, and they are concerned with many of His Attributes),
The Sheep, as the Victim: The Lamb, as being perfect: the Highpriest, as the
This addition proves clearly that the words are not used of the Father, but of the Son; for it was He Who in bodily form companied with us, and was in this lower world. For you would not so ascribe it as if it were newly acquired, but as belonging to Him from the beginning by reason of nature, and not as an act of favour. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Gregory of Nazianzus (Foundations of Theological Exegesis and Christian Spirituality). 3694 3694 Luke iv. Or again, they may be used of that
Word; for our Lord was of two Natures; so that one expression is used
Cf. Perhaps some day the child
But probably this sense also is to be referred to the head of
Government. Most are appearing here in English for the first time. Since then we find
bringing me whom He has saved to God. (b) For, it says, he that hath mental
us; for we were all inspired by Him with breath,(g) and as many
Here, he establishes the dual nature of the Christ in the Incarnation and its scriptural foundation. Father. Gregory of Nazianzus (Foundations of Theological Exegesis and Christian Spirituality) - Kindle edition by Matz, Brian. And thus He Who subjects presents to God that which he has subjected, making our condition His own. Ninthly, they allege, seeing He ever
to exist, or for two and two to make both four and ten,(, So He is called Man, not only
(Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1894.) Brian Matz, a respected scholar of the history of Christianity, provides an accessible and erudite introduction to the thought of fourth-century church father Gregory of Nazianzus. Of all these things the Word was given once, but the Action is continuous even
So He is called Man, not only
Why, who shall make Him cease, or for what cause? It was surely our Salvation. that through His Body He may be apprehended by embodied creatures, whereas otherwise
How then can you say that all things before that hour He knows accurately, and all things that are to happen about the time of the end, but of the hour itself He is ignorant? over the lower; that the worse may not rise in rebellion against the better. it from the Father. Hutchinson. The Third and Fourth are on the divinity of the Son, according to Scripture, and against Eunomian/Arian heresies. condition by His own, and how much is demanded of us, and how much we yield,
He is also called Wisdom, as the Knowledge of things divine and human. Career and Personality: A Brief Sketch. with God the Holy Ghost. effect of which is that That which anoints is called Man, and makes that which
For if you conceive in this manner of the meaning of To the only wise God, or Who only has Immortality, Dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto, or of to the king of the Ages, immortal, invisible, and only wise God, then the Son has vanished under sentence of death, or of darkness, or at any rate condemned to be neither wise nor king, nor invisible, nor God at all, which sums up all these points. a reformation, then He Himself also will have fulfilled His submission,
Gregory Nazianzen the Theologian Fourth Theological Oration (XXX), On the Son II, Complete.
For such expressions belong to servants, and inferiors, and the one applies to the better sort of them, while the other belongs to those who deserve punishment. which is Generally true. the former should rule, and the latter obey, and the higher have supremacy
to Work Submission in us when we have already submitted? and to-day in the Incarnation, and in the Spirit for ever and ever. I was… Gregory of Nazianzus has 47 books on Goodreads with 2050 ratings. What argument then will disprove that Wisdom is called a creature, in connection with the lower generation, but Begotten in respect of the first and more incomprehensible? called Life, because He is Light, and is the constituting and creating Power
On the Arrival of the Egyptians. For they appropriated certain characters to the honour of the Deity, and would not even allow the name of anything inferior to God to be written with the same letters as that of God, because to their minds it was improper that the Deity should even to that extent admit any of His creatures to a share with Himself. For that the same thing should be at once greater than and equal to the same thing is an impossibility; and the evident solution is that the Greater refers to origination, while the Equal belongs to the Nature; and this we acknowledge with much good will. suffering to strive against sin;
Fourth Theological Oration (Oration 30) But of the wise men amongst ourselves, some have conceived of him as an Activity, some as a Creature, some as God; and some have been uncertain which to call Him, out of greogry for Scripture, they say, as though it did not make the matter clear either way. apart from, but that which is common to, Me and Thee; for as We have one
before that hour He knows accurately, and all things that are to happen about
As a classically trained orator and philosopher he infused Hellenism into the early church, establishing the paradigm of Byzantine theologiansand church officials. And
would soon perceive that not even the Son knows the day or hour otherwise than
these things doeth the Son likewise; not, that is, because of the likeness of
Now these are Names common to the Godhead, but the
I mean "In that He hath suffered being tempted, He is
have admitted that the invisible and separate Nature can be explained by
Matz explores Gregory's homilies, especially those that reveal Gregory's affirmation of the full deity of the... Full description (d) The words are not used because He has these things,
In their eyes the following is only too ready
Saint Gregory was saint patron … subdued unto Him on the one hand by acknowledgment of Him, and on the other by
liveth to make intercession for us. For Their Being itself is common and equal, even though the Son receive
For perfect goodness, He says, is God's alone, even if
Holy Thing that should be born should be called the Son of the Highest,(z)
Their tenth objection is the ignorance, and the statement that Of the
Begotten is Son, and that of the unbegottenly Proceeding or going forth is The
What else could it be? to hand "The LORD created me at the beginning of His ways with a view to His
XIV. Re-citing in Gregory of Nazianzus, The Fourth Theological Oration, XIV. "(a) How shall we meet this? And again, Not for our righteousness which we have done, for we have not done any. But in the second sense, what end will there be? And if any one should say that
Did He make another world before this one, or
His taking us as
For Their Being itself is common and equal, even though the Son receive it from the Father. (d) And, I
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of Virtues our practice; that whoever attains to any of these may, as carrying
For such is the nature of
Matz explores Gregory's homilies, especially those that reveal Gregory's affirmation of the full deity of the Holy Spirit, and shows the importance of Gregory's work for contemporary theology and spirituality. The Fifth Theological Oration. For we understand in the same way the words, Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me; Nevertheless let not what I will but Your Will prevail. hold this opinion concerning the Will, you will be right and reverent in your
feeble and partial idea concerning Him, and our best Theologian is he who has,
are the Son's;(n) and on the other hand, all that belongs to
And for what reason? But
is not reasonable; as, Can the Children of the Bridechamber fast while the 313
Words of God, speaking to Saul about David. by St. Gregory of Nazianzus (Author), Martha Vinson (Translator) This translation makes available nineteen orations by the fourth-century Cappadocian father Gregory of Nazianzus. the Thing defined(a) since this also is called
For healing is not reasonable in the case of those who would
Most are appearing here in English for the first time. Who came for our sake. properly God? "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world? That since the Father knows, therefore also does the Son, as it is evident that this cannot be known or comprehended by any but the First Nature. But
For Scripture
Wesche, K.P. allow the name of anything inferior to God to be written with the same letters
knowledge of the one necessarily brings in the other. under the Law and for those who are under Grace, for soul and body, so that
taking into the account, along with our environment, our weakness also. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Who came down), and not of the Nature which He assumed, we must meet the
Why, in this:--This is your God; no other shall be accounted
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