On the Annunciation (Homily I) · §9 · Gregory Thaumaturgus

Let us join the angel's greeting

Come then, beloved, and let us too, following the angel's praise, pay as far as we are able the debt of thanks, saying: Hail and rejoice, full of grace, the Lord is with you (Luke 1:28). For it is truly yours to fare well and to rejoice, since divine grace, as it knows how, has chosen its dwelling with you: with the handmaid, the King of glory; with the beautiful one, He who is fair in form beyond the sons of men (Psalm 45:2); with the undefiled, He who sanctifies all things. With you is God, and from you is God, and perfect man, in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells (Colossians 2:9).

Latin

Agite igitur, carissimi, et nos angelicam consectantes laudem, debitum pro viribus grati persolvamus, dicentes: Ave ac gaude, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Tuum enim vere est avere, atque gaudere: quoniam tecum divina gratia, ut novit, habitationem elegit: cum ancilla, Rex gloriae: cum speciosa, speciosus forma prae filiis hominum: cum impolluta, qui sanctificat universa. Tecum Deus, et ex te Deus, ac perfectus homo, in quo omnis plenitudo divinitatis inhabitat.

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, On the Annunciation: the first sermon, in a fresh English translation. Three sermons survive; this volume covers the first only.

Gregory Thaumaturgus (c. 213–c. 270) was Origen's most famous pupil and the apostle of Pontus. Much else was later published under his name.

The Homilies on the Annunciation celebrate Gabriel's visit to Mary — David's oracle, the angel's greeting, and Mary's reply. They are transmitted under Gregory's name, though scholars generally count them the work of a later hand.

This volume holds the whole First Discourse, from the joy of the day through Gabriel's message and Mary's reply. The second and third discourses are not translated here.

Part only: Homily I

Fresh English translation of the whole first sermon from the Latin column of the Opera omnia print (Paris, 1622) (printed pp.

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Translated from Opera omnia, Greek and Latin (Paris: Sonnius, Morel and Cramoisy, 1622), page images (Latin column (Greek damaged))
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Translated from Latin opening (Latin)

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Sermo I — Long-s and column joins expanded from the Latin face; Greek face left aside as damaged machine-read text.

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