# Fragmenta in sancti Pauli epistulam ad Hebraeos 375

Cyrillus, Fragmenta in sancti Pauli epistulam ad Hebraeos, Page 375. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/cyrillus-theol/fragmenta-in-sancti-pauli-epistulam-ad-hebraeos/375

Πρὸς δὲ τὸν Υἱὸν Ὁ θρόνος σου, ὁ Θεός. Πῶς οὖν οὐκ ἀσύνετον καὶ θρασὺ τὸ περιεργάζεσθαι φύσιν, δι' ἧς τὰ πάντα παρήχθη πρὸς ὕπαρξιν, τὴν χρόνου παντὸς πρεσβυτέραν; γεγόνασι γὰρ δι' αὐτῆς, καὶ ἔστι πρὸ παντὸς αἰῶνος ὁ ἐκ Θεοῦ Πατρὸς Λόγος· ἀλλ' οἱ πάντολμοι κατηγοροῦσιν αὐτοῦ τὸ νεώτερον, καὶ γενητὸν αὐτὸν εἶναί φασιν· οὐκ εἰδότες ὅτι τοῖς τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος ἀντιφέρονται λόγοις· δι' αὐτοῦ μὲν γὰρ πεποιῆσθαι τοὺς αἰῶνάς φασιν οἱ λαλοῦντες ἐν Πνεύματι· οἱ δὲ γενητὸν εἶναι διισχυρίζονται τὸν ἐπέκεινα καὶ νοῦ καὶ λόγου, καὶ οὐδ' ἐκεῖνο δέχονται κατὰ νοῦν· οὐ γὰρ ἐν χρόνῳ γέγονε πατὴρ ὁ Θεὸς, ἀλλ' ἦν ἀεί τε καὶ ἐν ἀρχῇ· τούτου δὲ οὕτως ἔχοντος, πᾶσά πως ἀνάγκη συνυφεστάναι νοεῖν τὸν Υἱὸν, ἵνα καὶ ἀληθῶς ὑπάρχῃ πατὴρ ὁ Θεός. ἐπεὶ διδασκέτωσαν, εἰ Λόγος ἐστὶ τοῦ Πατρὸς ὁ Υἱὸς καὶ σοφία καὶ δύναμις καὶ χαρακτὴρ καὶ ἀπαύγασμα τῆς ὑποστάσεως αὐτοῦ, ποῖος ἦν ἄρα χρόνος καθ' ὃν ἦν ἄλογος ὁ Πατὴρ, οὐχ ὑπάρχοντος τοῦ Υἱοῦ; πότε δὲ ἦν δίχα τῆς ἑαυτοῦ σοφίας ἡ τῆς σοφίας πηγή; πότε δὲ δυνάμεως δίχα; πότε δὲ οὐκ ἦν ἐν Θεῷ τὸ ἀπαύγασμα τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ; ἢ πῶς οὐκ ἂν εἴη σὺν αὐτῷ τε καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ διηνεκῶς ὁ χαρακτὴρ αὐτοῦ; εἰ μὲν οὖν ἐν χρόνῳ ταῦτα γέγονεν, οὐκ ἦν ἄρα πατὴρ πρὶν γένηται, ἄλογος ἦν καὶ ἄσοφος, καὶ ἰσχὺν οὐκ ἔχων, χαρακτῆρός τε δίχα καὶ ἀπαυγάσματος. ἀλλ' οἶμαι τοῦτο εἶναι δυσσεβὲς ἐννοεῖν, καὶ τῆς ἀνωτάτω δυσσεβείας ἀπόδειξιν ἔχει· ἀεὶ δὲ ἦν ὁ

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Cyrillus Theol., Fragmenta in sancti Pauli epistulam ad Hebraeos. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg4090.tlg006.local001/.