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Translated by Ch. Browne and J. Swallow.
Gregory Theologian Bilingual Anthology, Resources Online and in Print
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14 Pages
Page 13
XX. He was baptized as Man—but He remitted sins as God [3568] —not because He needed purificatory rites Himself, but that He might sanctify the element of water. He was tempted as Man, but He conquered as God; yea, He bids us be of good cheer, for He has overcome the world. [3569] He hungered—but He fed thousands; [3570] yea, He is the Bread that giveth life, and That is of heaven. He thirsted—but He cried, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink. [3571] Yea, He promised that fountains should flow from them that believe. He was wearied, but He is the Rest of them that are weary and heavy laden. [3572] He was heavy with sleep, but He walked lightly over the sea. [3573] He rebuked the winds, He made Peter light as he began to sink. [3574] He pays tribute, but it is out of a fish; [3575] yea, He is the King of those who demanded it. [3576] He is called a Samaritan and a demoniac; [3577] —but He saves him that came down from Jerusalem and fell among thieves; [3578] the demons acknowledge Him, and He drives out demons and sinks in the sea legions of foul spirits, [3579] and sees the Prince of the demons falling like lightning. [3580] He is stoned, but is not taken. He prays, but He hears prayer. He weeps, but He causes tears to cease. He asks where Lazarus was laid, for He was Man; but He raises Lazarus, for He was God. [3581] He is sold, and very cheap, for it is only for thirty pieces of silver; [3582] but He redeems the world, and that at a great price, for the Price was His own blood. [3583] As a sheep He is led to the slaughter, [3584] but He is the Shepherd of Israel, and now of the whole world also. As a Lamb He is silent, yet He is the Word, and is proclaimed by the Voice of one crying in the wilderness. [3585] He is bruised and wounded, but He healeth every disease and every infirmity. [3586] He is lifted up and nailed to the Tree, but by the Tree of Life He restoreth us; yea, He saveth even the Robber crucified with Him; [3587] yea, He wrapped the visible world in darkness. He is given vinegar to drink mingled with gall. Who? He who turned the water into wine [3588] , who is the destroyer of the bitter taste, who is Sweetness and altogether desire. [3589] He lays down His life, but He has power to take it again; [3590] and the veil is rent, for the mysterious doors of Heaven are opened; the rocks are cleft, the dead arise. [3591] He dies, but He gives life, and by His death destroys death. He is buried, but He rises again; He goes down into Hell, but He brings up the souls; He ascends to Heaven, and shall come again to judge the quick and the dead, and to put to the test such words as yours. If the one give you a starting point for your error, let the others put an end to it.
[3568] Matt. iii. 13; ix. 6.
[3569] John xvi. 33.
[3570] Ib. vi. 10.
[3571] Ib. vii. 37.
[3572] Matt. xi. 28.
[3573] Ib. viii. 24.
[3574] Ib. xiv. 25, 30.
[3575] Ib. xvii. 24.
[3576] John xix. 19.
[3577] Ib. viii. 48.
[3578] Luke x. 30, etc.
[3579] Luke viii. 28-33.
[3580] Ib. x. 18.
[3581] John xi. 43.
[3582] Matt. xxvi. 15.
[3583] 1 Pet. i. 19.
[3584] Isa. liii. 7.
[3585] John i. 23.
[3586] Isa. liii. 23.
[3587] Luke xxiii. 43.
[3588] John ii. 1-11.
[3589] Cant. v. 16.
[3590] John x. 18.
[3591] Matt. xxvii. 51.
Reference address : https://elpenor.org/gregory-nazianzen/third-theological.asp?pg=13
