Commentary on the Octateuch and Kings
Commentaries on the Octateuch and on the Kings, a series of fifty-one memoirs on the Octateuch and the books of Kings, having already been first published in print, deserves indeed the most pious and most serene ruler of all Wallachia, Lord Gregory Alexander Gica; and produced by the care of Nikephoros, hieromonk of the Theotokos. In Leipzig of Saxony, in the typography of Breitkopf. Year 1858.
Chapter 1, verse 14. And God said, 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the heaven for the purpose of the earth, to divide between the day and between the night' (Genesis 1:14). Didymus. Therefore also the lights, having come into being on the fourth day, because of the word concerning them, are said to have come into being since they are greater. For the four, being in power ten, is honorable; for ones, twos, threes, and fours joined together, they make the ten; for through all Scripture, the ten...
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Commentarii in Octateuchum et Reges 39.1112 Σειρὰ ἑνὸς καὶ πεντήκοντα ὑπομνηματισμῶν εἰς τὴν Ὀκτάτευχον καὶ τὰ τῶν Βασιλειῶν, ἤδη πρῶτον τύποις ἐκδοθεῖσα ἀξιώσει μὲν τοῦ εὐσεβεστάτου καὶ γαληνοτάτου ἡγεμόνος πάσης Οὐγκροβλαχίας Κυρίου Κυρίου Γρηγορίου Ἀλεξάνδρου Γκίκα· ἐπιμελείᾳ δὲ Νικηφόρου ἱερομονάχου τοῦ Θεοτόκη. Ἐν Λειψίᾳ τῆς Σαξονίας, ἐν τῇ τυπογραφίᾳ τοῦ Βρειτκόπφ. Ἔτει αψοβʹ. ΚΕΦ. Αʹ, στ. ιδʹ. Καὶ εἶπεν ὁ Θεὸς, Γενηθήτωσαν φωστῆρες ἐν τῷ στερεώματι τοῦ οὐρανοῦ εἰς φαῦσιν τῆς γῆς, τοῦ διαχωρίζειν ἀνὰ μέσον τῆς ἡμέρας καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τῆς νυκτός. ∆ιδύμου. Ὅθεν καὶ οἱ φωστῆρες τῇ τετάρτῃ ἡμέρᾳ γενόμενοι, διὰ τὸν περὶ αὐτοὺς λόγον, ἅτε μείζους ὄντες ἐν ταύτῃ λέγονται γεγενῆσθαι. Ἡ γὰρ τετρὰς, δυνάμει οὖσα δεκὰς, τιμία ὑπάρχει· μονὰς γὰρ, καὶ δυὰς, καὶ τριὰς, καὶ τετρὰς, ἀλλήλοις συντεθεῖσαι τὴν δεκάδα ποιοῦσι· διὰ πάσης γὰρ τῆς Γραφῆς ἡ δεκὰς
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Didymus the Blind on the Octateuch.
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