Spirit without measure; Samaria road (John 3:33–4:4)
means he was fully assured and has proof and seal.
The Son is said to be sent from the Father either because of the enfleshed presence or because the Father, having the Son in himself, did not hide him but shone him forth from his own nature as “radiance” from light (Hebrews 1:3); for the Son has come out into his own existence even while he is in him by nature.
As spring of the Spirit he gives it. He means the Spirit’s activity, which humans receive by measure; for he himself has the whole complete. The Son has the whole Spirit essentially, not partly as a creature. Therefore he himself also gives it, while the saints by entreaty make Christ supply the Spirit through them.
Even if the Father loves “the world,” it is not as he loves the Son, whom he loves exceedingly because of natural generation as his own Word and wisdom and sanctification.
This is fulfilled when at the time of the second presence “every knee” bends to him (Philippians 2:10), having cast off the evil they have. Here he calls hand the power which the Son has by nature and not by participation, as every good is essentially in the Father and conceived in power as the Son. He also receives as man the authority he had before the incarnation.
Wrath of God is being in continual torments, which is harder than every death.
Even if he knows all as God, it is also of God-fitting economy to do something at the right time and then seem to learn when there is need.
Whatever subordinates do by consent of leaders who see and do not contradict or hinder, the leaders are said to do; for first saying that Jesus “baptized,” here he says that Jesus himself did not baptize, assigning the disciples’ act to him in power even if he did not do the baptism in activity. The words also fit clerics sent by bishops to synods or synodical letters or other such. Since Eutyches’ disciples who were caught about dullness after the second Ephesus synod again spoke twisted doctrines of Eutyches, Eutyches is reasonably anathematized even if he himself did not appear saying such things, as hearing his disciples speak what is not right and keeping silence; for what disciples say or do runs back to the teacher’s person. So Eli was blamed for enduring his sons’ faults as having sinned.
He came there that before the passion he might benefit the nations through the evangelical proclamation.
Greek
ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπληροφορήθη καὶ ἔχει ἀπόδειξιν καὶ σφραγῖδα. 103 {3Jο 3, 34}3Ἀπεστάλθαι λέγεται ὁ υἱὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς ἢ διὰ τὴν ἔνσαρκον παρουσίαν ἢ ὅτι ὁ πατὴρ ἔχων ἐν ἑαυτῷ τὸν υἱὸν οὐκ ἔκρυψεν, ἀλλ' ἐξέλαμψεν αὐτὸν ἐκ τῆς ἰδίας φύσεως ὡς ἐκ φωτὸς «ἀπαύγασμα»· ἐξελήλυθε γὰρ ὁ υἱὸς εἰς ἰδίαν ὕπαρξιν, εἰ καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ κατὰ φύσιν ἐστίν. 105 {3Jο 3, 34}3Ὡς πηγὴ ὢν τοῦ πνεύματος δίδωσιν αὐτό. τὴν ἐνέργειαν λέγει τοῦ πνεύ ματος, ἣν οἱ ἄνθρωποι μέτρῳ λαμβάνουσιν· αὐτὸς γὰρ ὁλόκληρον ἔχει πᾶσαν. ὅλον ἔχει τὸ πνεῦμα ὁ υἱὸς οὐσιωδῶς οὐ μὴν ἐκ μέρους ὡς κτίσμα. διὸ καὶ αὐτὸς αὐτὸ δίδωσιν, οἱ δὲ ἅγιοι διὰ ἱκεσίας ποιοῦσι τὸν Χριστὸν δι' αὐτῶν ἐπιχορηγῆσαι τὸ πνεῦμα. 106 {3Jο 3, 35}3Εἰ καὶ ἀγαπᾷ «τὸν κόσμον» ὁ πατήρ, ἀλλ' οὐχ ὡς τὸν υἱόν, ὃν ὑπερ βαλλόντως ἀγαπᾷ διὰ τὴν φυσικὴν γέννησιν ὡς ἴδιον λόγον καὶ σοφίαν καὶ ἁγιασμόν. 107 {3Jο 3, 35}3Τότε πληροῦται τοῦτο, ὅτε κατὰ τὸν τῆς δευτέρας παρουσίας καιρὸν «πᾶν γόνυ» αὐτῷ κάμπτει ἀποβαλόντων ἣν ἔχουσι κακίαν.χεῖρα ὧδε τὴν δύναμιν καλεῖ, ἣν ἔχει ὁ υἱὸς φυσικῶς καὶ οὐ μεταληπτῶς ὡς τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ παντὸς οὐσιωδῶς ὄντος ἐν πατρὶ καὶ ἐν δυνάμει νοουμένου τοῦ υἱοῦ. λαμβάνει δὲ καὶ ὡς ἄνθρωπος ἣν εἶχεν ἐξουσίαν καὶ πρὸ τῆς σαρκώσεως. 108 {3Jο 3, 36}3Ὀργὴ θεοῦ τὸ ἐν βασάνοις εἶναι διηνεκέσιν, ὅπερ ἐστὶ παντὸς θανάτου χαλεπώτερον. 110 {3Jο 4, 1}3Εἰ καὶ οἶδε πάντα ὡς θεός, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτο θεοπρεποῦς οἰκονομίας τὸ κατὰ καιρὸν ποιεῖν τι καὶ τότε δοκεῖν μανθάνειν, ὅτε χρεία ἐστίν. 111 {3Jο 4, 3}3Ὅσα κατὰ συναίνεσιν τῶν ἡγουμένων ποιοῦσιν οἱ ὑπήκοοι αὐτῶν ὁρώντων καὶ μὴ ἀντιλεγόντων ἢ κωλυόντων, οἱ ἡγούμενοι λέγονται ποιεῖν· πρῶτον γὰρ εἰπὼν ὅτι Ἰησοῦς «ἐβάπτιζεν», ὧδε λέγει, ὅτι αὐτὸς ὁ Ἰησοῦς οὐκ ἐβάπ-τιζεν, τὴν τῶν μαθητῶν πρᾶξιν αὐτῷ προσνέμων δυνάμει, εἰ καὶ μὴ ἐνεργείᾳ ἐποίει τὸ βάπτισμα. ἁρμόζει δὲ τὰ λεγόμενα περὶ τῶν ἀποστελλομένων κληρικῶν παρὰ ἐπισκόπων εἰς συνόδους ἢ συνοδικὰς ἐπιστολὰς ἢ ἑτεροῖά τινα ἐχόντων. ἐπειδὴ οἱ μαθηταὶ Εὐτυχοῦς οἳ περὶ καρώσεως ἐφωράθησαν μετὰ τὴν ἐν Ἐφέσῳ δευτέραν σύνοδον πάλιν τι διεστραμμένα δόγματα λαλοῦντες Εὐτυχοῦς, εὐλόγως Εὐτυχὴς ἀναθεματίζεται, κἂν αὐτὸς οὐδὲν ἐφάνη τοιοῦτον λαλήσας ὡς ἀκούων τῶν αὐτοῦ μαθητῶν λαλούντων τὰ μὴ ὀρθὰ καὶ σιωπῶν· τὰ γὰρ ἐκ τῶν μαθητῶν λαλούμενα ἢ γινόμενα εἰς τὸ τοῦ διδασκάλου πρόσωπον ἀνατρέχει. οὕτως ὁ Ἠλὶ ἐμέμφθη ἀνεχόμενος τῶν ἑαυτοῦ υἱῶν πταιόντων ὡς ἁμαρτήσας. 112 {3Jο 4, 4}3Ἦλθεν ἐκεῖ, ἵνα πρὸ τοῦ πάθους ὠφελήσῃ τὰ ἔθνη διὰ τοῦ εὐαγγελικοῦ κηρύγματος. 113 {3Jο 4, ®
About this text
Ammonius of Alexandria, Fragmenta in Joannem (Greek).
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 85 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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