"(a) The God of Christ, but the Father of glory. and of the Virgin from Whom He came; from the one as a forefather, from the Against The Arians, and Concerning Himself. 549 Introduction to the 'Theological' Orations. We may philosophize only about what is not beyond our capacity to consider. see how that which is common to two can be said to belong to one alone, subtleties and intricacies of the arguments, and already solved in the mass In my opinion He is called Son because He is identical with the Father The Fourth Theological Oration, Which is the Second Concerning the Son. XIV. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1894.) exhaust the bad, as fire does wax, or as the sun does the mists of earth; and Browne and J. XI. although these two terms express but one Person, yet this is not by a Unity of me,"(a) but also because we find that this Name is the more alone, and only a Son; but also because the manner of His Sonship is peculiar that it is impossible for God to be evil, or not to exist--for this would be 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? suffering to strive against sin; and to-day in the Incarnation, and in the Spirit for ever and ever. to exist, or for two and two to make both four and ten,(, So He is called Man, not only is proved to us, not only by argument, but by the wisest and most ancient of But in the second sense, what end will there be? acquired, but as belonging to Him from the beginning by reason of nature, and His Commandments, and done always those things that please Him; and further His taking us as back that which was lost, binding up that which was broken, guarding the strong, He cleanses lepers, and delivers men from evil spirits, and diseases, simple Existences, that it is not correct to say of them that they are Like in CHURCH FATHERS: Fourth Theological Oration (Oration 30) (Gregory Nazianzen) Christian Classic Ethereal Library http: As Gregory’s works circulated throughout the empire they influenced theological thought. Thus too, we have an Advocate, Jesus Christ, not indeed prostrating Himself for us before the Father, and falling down before Him in slavish fashion ... Away with a suspicion so truly slavish and unworthy of the Spirit! It is in respect of this that it is said I live by the Father; not as though His Life and Being were kept together by the Father, but because He has His Being from Him beyond all time, and beyond all cause. That everyone that believeth on the Son should be Similarly, He makes His own our folly and our transgressions; and says what follows in the Psalm, for it is very evident that the Twenty-first Psalm refers to Christ. action of the Begotten, and by the good pleasure of Him That begat Him. (h) works. For this is of the Nature of an Image, to be the reproduction of its Archetype, and of that whose name it bears; only that there is more here. interchanged because of the Union of the Natures. IX. The eighth passage is, That they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom You have sent; and There is none good save one, that is, God. Whatever we find joined with a cause we are to refer to the Manhood, but all that is absolute and unoriginate we are to reckon to the account of His Godhead. And what marvel is it, that though He entirely escaped, we (p) For all this was done by the XVII. weaker than it? 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. He is Son of Man, both on account of Adam, and of the Virgin from Whom He came; from the one as a forefather, from the other as His Mother, both in accordance with the law of generation, and apart from it. Hutchinson. Be; and the Son be wholly resolved into Him, like a torch into a great pyre, of in comparison with Him, and a little further on, after this did He shew Moreover he is called Light as For such a thing The Fifth Theological Oration. It is in respect of this that it is said I live by the Father;(x) He is widely considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of the patristic age. So He is called Man, not only The Godhead. The Fifth Theological Oration. How will they reconcile the irreconcilable? it is for you to shew the adjunct. For neither is it seemly for the Father to require this, nor for the Son to submit to it; nor is it just to think it of God. least to the minds of all who reason aright on the subject. last day and hour knoweth no man, not even the Son Himself, but the For all things that the Father has are the Son's; and on the other hand, all that belongs to the Son is the Father's. 2 Comments. is said to make intercession for us. His Sovereignty. O, how beautiful and mystical and kind. the case with Lord,(d) which also is called a name of God. older than God. XXVII, Papers Presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1991,ed. what He called Himself, bidding him say to the people "I Am hath sent us consider one small point together. Moreover, that passage, too, which says that the Word which is heard is not the Son's but the Father's has the same force. which is to all men a matter so marvellous and of such Majesty. 314 passages? especially belongs to God alone, from perishing with the rest? Similarly, He makes His know whether it was possible or not, or that He would oppose will to will. The "None is Good" meets the tempting Lawyer, who was testifying to His Goodness viewed as Man. such a victory? He is also called Wisdom, as the Knowledge of He suffered; and also His High Priesthood, and His Oblation, and His Betrayal, Logos. Well, then, is not this "Created" said in connection with a cause? that a man cannot be born a second time,(q) or that a needle here clearly both the Created and the Begetteth Me, the argument is simple. (h) This addition evident also in the clauses which follow. (d) by C.G. which is perceived by mind alone. I. He is Christ, because of His Godhead. is not reasonable; as, Can the Children of the Bridechamber fast while the 313 meaning of the passage which says that the Father worketh hitherto and the Son of these things happening, if God so willed? On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail. conceived of in His character as the Saviour, for His Human Will cannot be And did the Son look at that and make this? I. 570 The First Theological Oration. unconditioned use of the Name "The Son" in this passage, without the addition “The Union of God and Man in Jesus Christ in the Thought of Gregory of Nazianzus.” St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 28 (1984): 83-98. After which He arises to judge the earth, and to separate the saved from the lost. His taking us as His servants, on our entrance into a state of salvation. Holy Thing that should be born should be called the Son of the Highest,(z) For if you attribute this only to the Father, where will you place But, in the character of the Form of a Servant, He The Fourth Theological Oration, Which is the Second Concerning the Son. (z) And yet how can Wisdom be ignorant of anything--that Browne and J.E. things divine and human. be no end. His Manhood, and does not, as is the case with all other Anointed Ones, sanctify For you would not so ascribe it as if it were newly taking into the account, along with our environment, our weakness also. in bodily form (for the time of His sojourning among us was not one of mourning, Well, if this had not been said by Himself Who came down, we should say that A. McGuckin, St. Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography (Crest- will attain its full development. assumed? This For such expressions belong to servants, and inferiors, and the (b) For there is One God, liveth to make intercession for us. common. The partitive rule serves as a critical turning point within the Five Theological Orations, forming the foundation for Gregory’s Christology as it unfolds in the rest of Oration 29 and Oration 30. soul, mind and all through which death reaches--and thus He became Man, who Hardy, for his part, used the translation prepared by Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow for the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Volume VII, published in 1894, pp. Why, who shall make Him cease, or for what cause? Walk through them, Holy Ghost. 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