The Incarnation and Universal Care
Not only man, but also God, as the prophet Jeremiah says: 'Is this not the Lord our God, who will not be counted as another beside Him?' (Jeremiah 32:27). He discovered every way of knowledge and gave it to Jacob his child and to Israel, the one beloved by him. After these things, He appeared upon the earth and lived among men.
But when did He live among men, if not when He was born with them from a virgin, and shared in their life, and grew up, and ate with them, and drank with them, and the other things?
For if it is necessary to offer prayers, he says, on behalf of the universal Church from the ends of the inhabited world, much more it is necessary to demonstrate providence for all of it, and likewise to grieve and to care for all things.
Greek
Fragmenta varia 88 Τὸ μὴ μόνον ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλὰ καὶ Θεόν, καθὼς καὶ Ἱερεμίας ὁ προφήτης λέγει· οὗτος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, οὐ λογισθήσεται ἕτερος πρὸς αὐτόν. Ἐξεῦρε πᾶσαν ὁδὸν ἐπιστήμης καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὴν Ἰακὼβ τῶι παιδὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ Ἰσραὴλ τῶι ἠγαπημένωι ὑπ' αὐτοῦ. Μετὰ ταῦτα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὤφθη καὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις συνανεστράφη. Πότε δὲ συνανεστράφη ἀνθρώποις, εἰ μὴ ὅτε συνεγεννήθη μετ' αὐτῶν ἐκ παρθένου καὶ συνενηπίασε καὶ συνηυξήθη καὶ συνέφαγε καὶ συνέπιε καὶ τὰ ἄλλα; 90 Εἰ γὰρ τὰς εὐχὰς ποιεῖσθαι δεῖ, φησίν, ὑπὲρ τῆς καθολικῆς Ἐκκλησίας τῆς ἀπὸ περάτων τῆς οἰκουμένης, πολλῷ μᾶλλον καὶ τὴν πρόνοιαν ὑπὲρ ἁπάσης αὐτῆς ἐπιδείκνυσθαι δεῖ καὶ ὁμοίως ἁπασῶν κήδεσθαι καὶ μεριμνᾶν πάσας.
About this text
Various Fragments attributed to Eustathius of Antioch.
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 18 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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