The Miracle of the Wine
Because of that extraordinary joy, in which he who had been made a table by corruption became again a table of wonders of abundance for living men.
For it was necessary for the one who is richly supplied with all things and, as if from an inexhaustible spring, gushes forth good things by his will, having entered under the roof of the poor, to add the riches to the needy, just as also in Cana of Galilee John 2:1-11 the uncultivated wine, and to bring that absolute wine in due time into the midst, and to open it to the servants as a paradise of pleasure, both enjoying and being enjoyed. In which no smell of corruption appeared, for he partook through the divine calling of the incorruptible fragrance; nor was any blame of the fruit shown again; for he was a creator, having remade the presence, not even a little, but a great thing which distinguishes the change for those being elevated, but he was
Greek
παραδόξου ἐκείνης χαρμονῆς ἐν ᾗ ὁ τῇ φθορᾷ τραπεζοποιηθεὶς, ἀνθρώπων ζώντων αὖθις ἐγένετο τράπεζα θαυμάτων ἀνάπλεως. 4 Ἔπρεπε γὰρ τῷ πάντα εὐπόρῳ καὶ ἐκ θελήματος ὡς ἐκ πηγῆς ἀενάου ἀναβλύζοντι τὰ ἀγαθὰ, ὑπὸ στέγην πτωχῶν εἰσεληλυθότι, προσθεῖναι τοῖς πενιχροῖς τὰ πλούσια, καθάπερ καὶ τοῖς ἐν Κανὰ Γαλιλαίας τὴν ἀγεώργητον οἰνοχοΐαν, καὶ τὸν ἀπόλυτον ἐκεῖνον εὐκαίρως εἰς μέσον ἀγαγεῖν καὶ ὡς παράδεισον πανδαισίας εὐωχοῦντά τε καὶ εὐωχούμενον διανοῖξαι τοῖς παισίν· ἐν ᾧ οὐκ ὀσμὴ φθορᾶς ἐφαίνετο· μετέλαβεν γὰρ διὰ τῆς θείας κλήσεως τῆς ἀφθάρτου εὐωδίας· οὐδ' αὖ λώβη μελῶν ἐδείκνυτο· δημιουργὸς γὰρ ἦν ὁ παροστάξει ἀναπλάσας ἀλλ' οὐδὲ μικρόν τι ἢ μέγα ὅπερ ἀλλοίωσιν τοῖς καταβιβαζομένοις διαχαρακτηρίζει, ἀλλ' ἦν
About this text
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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