One Spirit distributing gifts; prophecy among the charisms
You were told. Moreover, in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, when Paul speaks of the spiritual gifts—among which is prophecy—he says: "All these things are energized by one and the same Spirit, who distributes to each individually as He wills." This means authoritatively, not servilely. One might say that the Spirit is the person of Christ, the One who bestowed upon us the Spirit of prophecy; for this very Spirit of prophecy is the person of the prophets, while the Spirit itself is the gift, and the Law is but a shadow—since "the Law has a shadow of the good things to come." Thus, the prophets lived within us and within the shadow of the Law. Therefore, the prophetic gift, toward which every manifestation of prophecy looks as its goal, is Christ, that is, from Christ. For "Christ is the end of the Law and the prophets." Moreover, it could be said even from the person of the apostles and the believers: "For in Him we live and move and have our being"—of whom we said that we would live in His shadow.
Greek
συνῆτε». ἐν δὲ τῇ πρὸς Κορινθίους ὁ Παῦλος εἰπὼν τὰ χαρίσματα, ἐν οἷς ἐστιν ἡ προφητεία, φησίν· «ταῦτα δὲ πάντα ἐνεργεῖ ἓν καὶ τὸ αὐτὸ πνεῦμα, χορηγοῦν 17 ἑκάστῳ καθὼς βούλεται»· τουτέστιν αὐθεντικῶς, οὐ δουλικῶς. λέγοις δ' ἂν πνεῦμα προσώπου Χριστόν, τὸν δωρησάμενον ἡμῖν τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς προφητείας· αὕτη γὰρ προφητῶν πρόσωπον, πνεῦμα δὲ τὸ χάρισμα, σκιὰ δὲ ὁ νόμος, «σκιὰν γὰρ ἔχων ὁ νόμος τῶν μελλόντων ἀγαθῶν». ἔζησαν οὖν ἐν ἡμῖν οἱ προφῆται καὶ ἐν τῇ τοῦ νόμου σκιᾷ. τὸ οὖν χάρισμα τὸ προφητικόν, πρὸς ὃ βλέπει πάσης τῆς προφητείας ἡ ἔκβασις, Χριστός ἐστιν, τουτέστιν ἀπὸ Χριστοῦ. «τέλος γὰρ νόμου καὶ προφητῶν ὁ Χριστός». ῥηθείη δὲ κἂν ἐκ προσώπου τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ τῶν πιστῶν· «ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ καὶ ζῶμεν καὶ κινούμεθα καὶ ἐσμέν»· οὗ εἴπομεν ἐν τῇ σκιᾷ αὐτοῦ ζησόμεθα ,
About this text
Origen of Alexandria, Fragmenta in Lamentationes (Greek).
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 13 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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