Treatise on the Mysteries 2.13.1–2.15.1
Latin text: Feder, CSEL 65 (Latin text: Vienna CSEL, digitized by Open Greek and Latin (csel-dev, University of Leipzig), CC BY-SA 4.0).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Treatise 2, chapter 13
2.13.1CSEL 65:36
Iam uero generationum ordo, Abrahae electio, patriarcharum procreatio. populi seruitus, Egyptiorum clades, maris diuisio, mannae irroratio. legis constitutio, sacrificiorum distinctio, iudicum tempus, regnorum cognitio, populi in captiuitatem transmigratio,
Now then, the order of generations, the choosing of Abraham, the begetting of the patriarchs, the servitude of the people, the plagues of the Egyptians, the dividing of the sea, the raining of the manna, the giving of the law, the distinction of sacrifices, the time of the judges, the knowledge of the kingdoms, the people's deportation into captivity,
Notes and citation
Summary: Hilary lists the events of Israel's history.
- The sentence continues in 2.13.2.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Egyptiorum cladl s → Egyptiorum clades.
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Hilary, Myst. 2.13.1 (CSEL 65:36; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-13-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.13.2CSEL 65:36–37
sanctorum uisio, admonitio prophetarum in quantum ad cognitionem necessaria est! in omnibus enim memoratis superius deus pater et deus filius et ex deo patre deus filius, deus et homo Iesus Christus, agnoscitur, dum in creatione mundi deus iubet et deus efficit, dum homo ad communis imaginis speciem formatur, dum pluit sulphur et ignem dominus a domino — nam nec sibi quis iuberet, ut faceret, nec communionem suam ad alterum solus extenderet nec sibi daret atque a se unus acciperet —, dum homo ab Abraham uidetur et deus adoratur, dum in Iacob lucta ab homine deus uidetur, dum hominem tenens benedici se a domino postulat. dum a Nabuchodonosor tribus tantum pueris in caminum missis similis dei filio quartus aspicitur, dum parit uirgo Emmanuhel eum, qui nobiscum deus est.
the vision of the saints, the admonition of the prophets: how necessary they are for knowledge! For in all those mentioned above God the Father and God the Son are recognized, and God the Son from God the Father, God and man, Jesus Christ: when in the creation of the world God commands and God makes; when man is formed after the figure of a common image; when the Lord rains sulfur and fire from the Lord (for no one would command himself to do something, nor would one alone extend his fellowship to another, nor would one give to himself and receive from himself); when a man is seen by Abraham and God is worshiped; when in Jacob's wrestling God is seen by a man; when, holding the man, he asks to be blessed by the Lord; when, three youths only having been cast into the furnace by Nebuchadnezzar, a fourth is seen like the Son of God; when the Virgin bears Emmanuel, who is God with us.
Gen 1:26 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 19:24 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 18:2 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 32:26 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 32:30 (allusion, medium confidence) · Dan 3:25 (3:92 Vulg.) (allusion, high confidence) · Isa 7:14 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 1:23 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: All the Old Testament history reveals the Father and the Son, and Christ as God and man.
- Allusions: Gen 1:3–26; Gen 19:24; Gen 18:1–2; Gen 32:24–30; Dan 3:25 (3:92 Vulg.); Isa 7:14; Matt 1:23.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; words joined by OCR): a domino-nam nec → a domino — nam nec; tenens bi-nedici se → tenens benedici se.
Topics: Trinity, Christology
Cite (SBL): Hilary, Myst. 2.13.2 (CSEL 65:36–37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-13-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Treatise 2, chapter 14
2.14.1CSEL 65:37
Haec ergo ab omnibus significata in uno illo cognita et expleta reseruari in memoriam scriptis et consignatis uoluminibus conuenit, ut posteritas successionum gestis temporis anterioris instructa et praesentia etiam in praeteritis contemplaretur et praeterita nunc quoque in praesentibus ueneraretur.
It was fitting, then, that these things, signified by all and known and fulfilled in that one man, should be kept in memory in written and sealed volumes, so that posterity, instructed by the deeds of the earlier time, might both contemplate present things in past ones and venerate past things even now in present ones.
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Summary: These things were written down so that later generations might see the present in the past.
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Hilary, Myst. 2.14.1 (CSEL 65:37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-14-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.14.2CSEL 65:37
namque eadem cum perfecta ueritatis cognitio est, si ueritas ex ratione intelligatur — omnia enim ad cognitionem nostram atque ad firmissimam iudicii nostri fidem scripta sunt —, neque haec, quae ex sententia dei in libros relata sunt, cognitione posteritatis eguerunt.
For since the same is the perfect knowledge of the truth, if the truth is understood from reason (for all things were written for our knowledge and for the firmest assurance of our judgment), these things, which were recorded in the books by God's decision, did not need the knowledge of posterity.
Rom 15:4 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Scripture was written for our understanding, not because its truths needed later recognition.
- Allusion: Rom 15:4; 1 Cor 10:11. The Latin is involved; translated by sense.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): nanique eadem → namque eadem.
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Hilary, Myst. 2.14.2 (CSEL 65:37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-14-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.14.3CSEL 65:37
sed cognitione scripturarum posteritas indigebat, ut ueritatem disceret, ut doctrinam ueritatis ex ratione susciperet, ut scientiam uitae tamquam ab ipsis cunis prouectam sequeretur, scilicet non ambigeret deum ex deo, cum dominus plueret a domino, non ignoraret deum unum innascibilem, cum deus iuberet, non nesciret deum unigenitum, cum deus faceret, non ambigeret, quod duo unum sint, cum unum communis imaginis in homine conderetur exemplum, non negaret quod deus in hominem ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗. ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗
But posterity needed the knowledge of the Scriptures, that it might learn the truth, that it might receive the teaching of truth from reason, that it might follow the knowledge of life carried forward as from the very cradle: namely, that it should not doubt God from God, since the Lord rained from the Lord; should not be ignorant of the one unbegettable God, since God commanded; should not be unaware of the only-begotten God, since God made; should not doubt that two are one, since one pattern of a common image was established in man; should not deny that God into man …
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Gen 19:24 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 1:26 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Scripture teaches posterity the Father and the Son from the beginning; the text then breaks off.
- The rest of the treatise is lost in the manuscript.
- Allusions: Gen 19:24; Gen 1:26.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark): non negaret. quod deus → non negaret quod deus.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Hilary, Myst. 2.14.3 (CSEL 65:37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-14-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Treatise 2, chapter 15
2.15.1CSEL 65:37–38
∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ patribus genitos. et promptum est audire Paulum gloriantem, quod ex Hebreis Israhelita sit de tribu Beniamin. ergo cum Heliae officium sit conuertere corda patrum ad filios, perfectae ei praedicationis mysterium reseruatur, ut ad eam fidem patres conuertat, quam iam eiusdem spiritus prophetiae confirmauit in filiis.
… born to the fathers. And it is easy to hear Paul glorying that he is an Israelite from the Hebrews, of the tribe of Benjamin. Since, then, it is Elijah's office to turn the hearts of the fathers to the sons, the mystery of the perfect preaching is reserved for him, that he may turn the fathers to that faith which the spirit of the same prophecy has already confirmed in the sons.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Phil 3:5 (allusion, high confidence) · Rom 11:1 (allusion, medium confidence) · Mal 4:6 (3:24 Vulg.) (allusion, high confidence) · Luke 1:17 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: A final fragment: Elijah will turn the fathers to the faith already held by the sons.
- A fragment after a gap. Allusions: Phil 3:5; Rom 11:1; Mal 4:6 (3:24 Vulg.); Luke 1:17.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Hilary, Myst. 2.15.1 (CSEL 65:37–38; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-15-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the PL 10 text; re-read against the Latin (no public-domain English exists).