Christ as Wisdom and the types of his body
Through the wine and the bread, the members preach the types of the physical things of Christ.
He calls Christ Wisdom, her perceptible icon, proclaiming the visible wisdom and her commerce as a greeting before all things; and he is strong, setting nothing of the kind of evil or cunning against her, for presenting a clear knowledge through her words, she cries out with good report; she is well-known to all, and every precious thing is not worthy of her.
For a general, having once taken a city, lays it down as he wishes, but the driver of passions subjects these things as far as they are in life; for the enemy within is always more difficult than the one without, as he who has been carried away has ceased to care, but he who...
Greek
In Proverbia (fragmenta) 75 ∆ιὰ τοῦ οἴνου καὶ τοῦ ἄρτου τὰ ἀντίτυπα τῶν σωματικῶν τοῦ Χριστοῦ κηρύττει μελῶν. 76 Τὸν Χριστὸν λέγει Σοφίαν, τὴν αἰσθητὴν αὐτῆς εἰκόνα, διαγράφων τὴν ὁρατὴν φρόνησιν τήν τε ἐμπορίαν αὐτῆς <πρὸ> πάντων ἀσπαστέαν σημαίνων· καὶ οὐδὲν αὐτῇ κακίας εἶδος ἢ πανουργίας ἀντιτασσόμενον ἰσχύει· τοῖς γὰρ ἐρῶσιν αὐτῆς πρόδηλον γνώρισμα παριστῶν, ἐκβοᾷ μετ' εὐφημίας· εὔγνωστός ἐστι πᾶσι, καὶ πᾶν δὲ τίμιον οὐκ ἄξιον αὐτῆς. 77 Ὁ μὲν γὰρ στρατηγὸς πόλιν ἅπαξ ἑλὼν ὡς ἠβουλήθη διέθηκεν, ὁ δέ γε τῶν παθῶν ἡνίοχος ὑποτάττει ταῦτα, ἐφ' ὅσον ἐστὶν ἐν τῇ ζωῇ· ὁ γὰρ ἐμφύλιος πολέμιος πάντως τοῦ ἔξωθέν ἐστι χαλεπώτερος, ὡς ὅ γε πορθήσας ἀπεμερίμνησεν, ὁ δὲ πρὸς
About this text
On Proverbs attributed to Eustathius of Antioch.
Catalogue & scope
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Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 18 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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