Fragment on Baruch
Fragmentum in librum Baruch
Wisdom sits unshaken while made nature perishes§1
1Fragments.
Baruch says you are seated unto the age (Baruch 3:3). Made nature is always perishable in every time, and generated things have their measure in that frailty. But Wisdom, craftswoman and maker of all, sits — that is, she keeps unshaken continuance in sameness. Again: our sitting shows the unshakeable, established character of existence and of the continuance of the highest of all substances; but as for us…
Greek · §1
Fragmentum in librum Baruch FRAGMENTA EX CATENIS IN LIBRUM BARUCH Ὅτι σὺ καθήμενος εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. Ἀεὶ γὰρ καὶ ἐν παντὶ χρόνῳ φθαρτή ἐστιν ἡ πεποιημένη φύσις, καὶ τῶν γεννητῶν ἐν τούτοις τὸ μέτρον. Κάθηται δὲ ἡ πάντων τεχνῖτις καὶ δημιουργὸς σοφία, τουτέστιν ἀκλόνητον ἔχει τὴν ἐν ταυτότητι διαμονήν. Καὶ πάλιν· Ἡμῶν γὰρ κάθισις ἐν τούτοις τὸ ἀκράδαντόν τε καὶ ἱδρυμένον τῆς ὑπάρξεως, καὶ διαμονῆς τῆς ἀνωτάτω πασῶν οὐσίας ὑποδηλοῖ· τὸ δὲ, ἡμᾶς
Perishing by the account of being made§2
2…to perish through the age — that is, to be perishable at every time, so far as the account of having been made reaches; if…
Greek · §2
ἀπόλλυσθαι τὸν αἰῶνα, τὸ εἶναι φθαρτοὺς κατὰ πάντα καιρὸν, τό γε ἧκον εἰς τὸν τοῦ πεποιῆσθαι λόγον· εἴ
Whatever is brought from non-being into being§3
3…it is true that everything in generation, and brought over from non-being into being, wholly and entirely…
Greek · §3
περ ἐστὶν ἀληθὲς ὅτι πᾶν τὸ ἐν γενέσει, καὶ παρενεχθὲν ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὄντος εἰς τὸ εἶναι, πάντη τε καὶ πάντω
Subject to corruption§4
4…is subject to corruption.
Greek · §4
ς ὑπόκειται τῇ φθορᾷ. Επιτρέπεται η ελεύθερη χρήση του υλικού µε αναφορά στην πηγή προέλευσής του. 1