0'' But in the opinion of Combetis, Gregory's text is corrupt, and a!trepton should be read, which reading is also supported by various authorities, including three Cod. Reg. : cf. also De Trinit. in Cyril.
33 su/qesij.
34 Greg. Naz., Orat. 32, 34.
35 Text, swqh/setai : various reading, sunqh/setai.
36 Jer. xxiii. 24.
37 Greg. Naz. ut supr.
38 The reference is to the Pythagorean and Aristolian ideas of the heavens as being like the body of Deity, something uncorrupt, different from the four elements, and therefore called a fifth body, or element (stoixei=on). In his Meteor. i. 3, De Caelo i. 3, &c., Aristotle speaks of the Ether as extending from the heaven of the fixed stars down to the moon, as of a nature specially adapted for circular motion, as the first element in rank, but as the fifth, "if we enumerate beginning with the elements directly known by the senses....the subsequently so-called tteutttov otolxelov, quinta essentia." The other elements, he taught, had the upward motion, or the downward: the earth having the attribute of heaviness, and its natural place in the world being the lowest; fire being the light element, and "its place the sphere next adjoining the sphere of the ether" See Ueberweg's History of Philosophy, Vol. I. p. 167, Morris's translation. and the chapter on the De Coelo in Grote's Aristotle, Vol II. pp. 389, &c.
39 Gref. Naz. ut supr.
40 Or, such as are said to exist in the case of God, or in relation to God. The Greek is, o$sa peri0 Qeou=, h= peri\ Qeo=n ei\nai le/getai.
41 Greg. Naz. ut supr.
42 Greg. Naz., Orat. 32, 34. The Greek is, oi0keio/teron de\ ma=llon e0k th=j a9pa/ntwn a0faire/sewj poiei=sqai to\n lo/gon.It may be given thus:-It is more in accordance with the nature of the cae rather to discourse of Him in the way of abstracting from him all that belongs to us.
43 Dionys., De Myst. Theolog.
44 Or, above being ; u9pe\r ou0si/an.
45 Or, above being ; u9pe\r ou0si/an.
46 Or, but only the things which relate to His nature. The Greek is, o$sa de\ le/gomen e0pi\ Qeou= katafantikw=j, o! th\n fu/sin, a0lla\ ta\ peri\ th\n fu/sin dhloi=.
47 Or, the things that relate to his nature.
48 Various reading, but that He is one.
49 Exod. xx. 2,3.
50 Deut. vi. 4.
51 Isai. xliii.10.
52 St. John xvii. 3.
53 See Thomas Aquin. I. quaest. II, Art. 4; also cf. Book iv., c. 21 beneath. The question of the unity of the Deity is similarly dealt with by those of the Fathers who wrote against the Marcionites and the Manichaeans, and by Athenagoras.
54 Or, infinite; a0peri/grapton.
55 Infr. lib. iv. c.21.
56 Greg. Nyss., Prol. Catech.
57 Greg. Naz., Orat. 35.
58 Cf. Dionys., De div. nom., c. 5, 13.