The Statue and the Divine Will
The statue is pure from every side, perfect and well-formed even to the hair. Truly, it nourishes that joy appropriately, I say, both from the most complete and clear love of those who received her, and from the wonders of the God who was shown without interruption.
For she indeed knew clearly that the divine eye was accustomed to rest most upon the one being benefited by the Savior [...], just as she has heard from him that 'my food is to do the will of him who sent me' (John 4:34), and the will of the Father and the Son is the salvation of men. Salvation of men exists through the faith in him who is always co-glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit in the highest, as he says in the gospels: 'This is the will of my Father, that everyone seeing the Son and believing in him may have eternal life' (John 6:40).
Greek
ἀκέραιον τὸ ἄγαλμα πάντοθεν ἄρτιον καὶ εὐειδὲς ἄχρι τριχός. 5 Πρεπόντως τοιγαροῦν ἐκτρέφει ἐκείνην εὐφρασίαν, φημὶ δὲ ἔκ τε τῆς τῶν ὑποδεξαμένων παναρέτων ἀκραιφνοῦς ἀγαπῆς, ἔκ τε θαυμάτων τοῦ ἀνενδεῶς ὑποδειχθέντος θεοῦ. Ἤδει γὰρ ᾔδει σαφῶς ὅτι τοῦτο μάλιστα ἐφηδύνειν εἴωθεν τὸν θεῖον ὀφθαλμὸν εἰ τὸν εὐεργετούμενον σωτῆρα .., καθῶς ἀκηκόει παρ' αὐτοῦ ὅτι «ἐμὸν βρῶμά ἐστιν ἵνα ποιῶ τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πέμψαντός με,» θέλημα δὲ Πατρὸς καὶ Υἱοῦ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἡ σωτηρία. Σωτηρία μὲν τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὑπάρχει ἡ εἰς αὐτὸν τὸν ἀεὶ συνδοξαζόμενον τῷ Πατρὶ καὶ τῷ ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι ἐν ὑψίστοις πίστις, ὠς ἐν εὐαγγελίοις φησί· «τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ θέλημα τοῦ Πατρός μου, ἵνα πᾶς ὁ θεωρῶν τὸν Υἱὸν καὶ πιστεύων εἰς αὐτὸν ἔχῃ ζωὴν αἰώνιον.»
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Eustathius on the raising of Lazarus and the two natures.
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Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 18 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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