Solutions Fragment (Vat. 447)
Solutiones (Vat. 447)
Rich man and Lazarus: deed or type of judgment?§1
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8. There was a rich man, feasting splendidly each day; and a poor man, Lazarus, was cast at his gate, covered with sores, according to the Gospel history (Luke 16:19-23). Both died: the poor man went to rest, the other to punishment. Have these things already happened, and was a fitting repayment allotted to each — or does the story stamp the image of the coming judgment…
Greek · §1
Solutiones (fragmentum e tractatu de dogmatum solutione) (e cod. Vat. gr. 447) Ηʹ. Ἄνθρωπός τις ἦν πλούσιος, εὐφραινόμενος καθ' ἡμέραν λαμπρῶς· πτωχὸς δέ τις Λάζαρος ἐπὶ τὸν τούτου πυλῶνα ἐβέβλητο ἡλκωμένος κατὰ τὴν εὐαγγελικὴν ἱστορίαν. ἐγένετο οὖν ἀμφοτέροις ἀποθανεῖν καὶ τοῦτον μὲν τὸν πτωχὸν εἰς τὴν ἀνάπαυσιν ἀπελθεῖν, τὸν δὲ εἰς τὴν κόλασιν. ταῦτα ἤδη γέγονε 86 καὶ ἀνταπόδοσις ἀξία ἐκληρώθη ἑκάστῳ, ἢ τῆς μελλούσης κρίσεως ἀνατυποῖ τὴν
Lazarus named so the deed is shown true§2
2…in these things? But, someone says, when he names the appellation Lazarus, it truly happened and was done. Why did he not say a certain poor man, but Lazarus? So that by the name he might show these things were done in experience and truth. Solution: The judgment, and so on. 9. If Hosea the prophet took a harlot wife (Hosea 1:2) and…
Greek · §2
εἰκόνα ἐν τούτοις; ἀλλά, φησίν, ὁπότε ὀνομάζει Λαζάρου προσηγορίαν, ἀληθῶς γέγονε καὶ ἐπράχθη. διὰ τί γὰρ μὴ εἶπε Πτωχὸς δέ τις ἄνθρωπος, ἀλλὰ Λάζαρος; ἵνα τῇ προσηγορίᾳ δείξῃ πείρᾳ καὶ ἀληθείᾳ ταῦτα πεπράχθαι. Ἐπίλυσις Τὴν κρίσιν κτλ. Θʹ. Εἰ ἔλαβεν Ὠσηὲ ὁ προφήτης γυναῖκα πόρνην καὶ ἐτ
Hosea’s wife and Melchizedek’s origin§3
3…begot children from her in deed and energy, or does he speak things understood prophetically? If Melchizedek is not simply a man nor a spirit, but a man having no beginning of generation from humans, but newly created by God (Genesis 14:18-20; cf. Hebrews 7:3). CYR. On these chapters a long discourse has been made by us when we were writing on the…
Greek · §3
έκνωσεν ἐξ αὐτῆς πράξει καὶ ἐνεργείᾳ, ἢ προφητικῶς νοούμενα λέγει. Εἰ ὁ Μελχισεδὲκ οὐκ ἄνθρωπος ἁπλῶς οὐδὲ πνεῦμα, ἀλλ' ἄνθρωπος ἀρχὴν γενέσεως οὐκ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἔχων ἀλλὰ προσφάτως δημιουργηθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ. CYR.Περὶ τούτων τῶν κεφαλαίων μακρὸς ἡμῖν πεποίηται λόγος, ὅτε ἐγράφομεν εἰς τὸν
Look to Hosea and Genesis on Melchizedek§4
4…prophet Hosea, and in the book on Genesis much examination is found concerning Melchizedek; and it is open to your piety to meet with the books and take from there the sense of what was said on each.
Greek · §4
Ὠσηὲ τὸν προφήτην, καὶ ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ δὲ τῷ περὶ τῆς Γενέσεως πολλὴ βάσανος εὑρίσκεται περὶ τοῦ Μελχισεδέκ, καὶ ἔξεστι τῇ εὐλαβείᾳ σου ταῖς βίβλοις ἐντυχεῖν κἀκεῖθεν λαβεῖν τῶν εἰρημένων ἐφ' ἑκάστῳ τὸν νοῦν. Επιτρέπεται η ελεύθερη χρήση του υλικού µε αναφορά στην πηγή προέλευσής του. 1