The Divinity of Christ 0.1–1.511

Latin text: Lanfranchi, Opera (Turin 1898) (Latin text: Lanfranchi, Turin 1898 (public domain), via the Internet Archive OCR).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).

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0.1Lanfranchi 2:lines 1–30

Est tria summa Deus, trinum specimen, vigor unus ; Corde Patris genita est Sapientia, Filius ipse est ; Sanctus ab aeterno subsistit Spiritus ore. Tempore nec senior Pater est, nec lumine maior ; Nam sapiens retro semper Deus edidit ex se, Per quod semper erat gignenda ad saecula, Verbum. Edere sed Verbum Patris est : at cetera Verbi, Adsumptum gestare hominem, reparare peremptum, Conciliare Patri, dextraque in sede locare. Spiritus ista Dei complet : Deus ipse fideles In populos charisma suum diffundere promptus, Et Patris et Christi virtutem in corpora transfert. Estne vera secta? te, Magister, consulo. Rectamne servamus fidem ? An viperina non cavemus dogmata, Et nescientes labimur ? Artam salutis vix viam discernere est Inter reflexas semitas. Tam multa surgunt perfidorum compita, Tortis polita erroribus : Obliqua sese conserunt divortia, Hinc inde textis orbitis ; Quas si quis errans ac vagus sectabitur, Rectum relinquens tramitem, Scrobis latentis pronus in foveam ruet, Quam fodit hostilis manus, Manus latronum, quae viantes obsidet, Iter sequentes devium. Quid non libido mentis humanae struat ? Quid non malorum pruriat?

God is three in the highest, a threefold form, one power; Wisdom was begotten from the Father’s heart: that is the Son; the Holy Spirit subsists from eternity from the mouth [of God]. Neither is the Father older in time, nor greater in light; for God, being wise, always from before brought forth from himself the Word, through whom there always were ages to be begotten. To bring forth the Word is the Father’s; but the rest is the Word’s: to bear the man he assumed, to restore him who had perished, to reconcile him to the Father, to place him on the right-hand seat. The Spirit of God completes these things: God himself, ready to pour out his charisma on faithful peoples, transfers the power of both Father and Christ into bodies. Is our sect true? I consult you, Master. Do we keep the right faith? Or are we not on guard against viperous doctrines, and slip without knowing it? The narrow way of salvation can scarcely be discerned among the winding paths. So many crossroads of the faithless rise up, polished with twisted errors: crooked diversions join one another, with tracks woven on this side and that; if anyone, erring and wandering, follows them, leaving the straight path, he will fall headlong into the pit of a hidden ditch, which the enemy’s hand has dug, the hand of robbers, which besets travelers who follow the out-of-the-way road. What will the lust of the human mind not build? What evils will it not itch for?

John 1:3 (allusion, medium confidence) · Matt 7:14 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: The opening hymn confesses one God in three, the Son begotten from the Father’s heart as Wisdom and the eternal Spirit, with their distinct works; the preface asks Christ whether the faith held is right, for the narrow way of salvation is beset by the winding paths of heresy.

  • Apotheosis, opening hexameter hymn on the Trinity (12 lines) and the first lines of the iambic preface. Trinitarian language as written. Matt 7:14; John 1:3. Checked afterwards against FOTC 52 (private check).

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Est tria snmma Deus (l),tnnum specimen, vigor unus ; Corde Patris genita est Sapientia, Filius ipsc ost. Sanctus ab aeterno subsistit Spiritus oro. Tempore nec senior Pater est, nec lumine maior ; Nam sapiens retro semper Deus edidit ex se, .*J Per quod semper erat gignenda ad saecula, Yerbum. Edere sed Verbum Patris est : at cetera Verbi, Adsumptum gestare hominem, reparare peremtum, Conciliare Patri, dexti-aque in sede locare. Spiritus ista Dei complet : Deus ipse fideles In populos charisma suum diffundere promtus, Et Patris et Christi virtutem in corpora transfert. Est vera secta? te, Magister, consulo. Eectamne servamus fidem ? An viperina non cavemus dogmata, Et nescientes labimur ? Artam salutis vix viam discernere est Inter reflexas semitas. Tam multa surgunt perfidorum compita, Tortis polita erroribus : Obliqua sese conserunt divortia, Hinc inde textis orbitis Quas si quis errans ac vagus sectabitur, Eectum relinquens tramitem ; Scrobis latentis pronus in foveam ruet, Quam fodit hostilis manus. Manus latronum, quae viantes obsidet, Iter sequentes devium. Quid non libido mentis humanae struatj* ? Quid non malorum pruriat? → Est tria summa Deus, trinum specimen, vigor unus ; Corde Patris genita est Sapientia, Filius ipse est ; Sanctus ab aeterno subsistit Spiritus ore. Tempore nec senior Pater est, nec lumine maior ; Nam sapiens retro semper Deus edidit ex se, Per quod semper erat gignenda ad saecula, Verbum. Edere sed Verbum Patris est : at cetera Verbi, Adsumptum gestare hominem, reparare peremptum, Conciliare Patri, dextraque in sede locare. Spiritus ista Dei complet : Deus ipse fideles In populos charisma suum diffundere promptus, Et Patris et Christi virtutem in corpora transfert. Estne vera secta? te, Magister, consulo. Rectamne servamus fidem ? An viperina non cavemus dogmata, Et nescientes labimur ? Artam salutis vix viam discernere est Inter reflexas semitas. Tam multa surgunt perfidorum compita, Tortis polita erroribus : Obliqua sese conserunt divortia, Hinc inde textis orbitis ; Quas si quis errans ac vagus sectabitur, Rectum relinquens tramitem, Scrobis latentis pronus in foveam ruet, Quam fodit hostilis manus, Manus latronum, quae viantes obsidet, Iter sequentes devium. Quid non libido mentis humanae struat ? Quid non malorum pruriat?.

Topics: Trinity, Heresy

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 0.1 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 1–30; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/0-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Lanfranchi's edition (Turin, 1898; OCR, corrections logged); checked afterwards privately against FOTC 52.

0.31Lanfranchi 2:lines 31–68

Statum lacessunt omnipollentis Dei Calumniosis litibus. Fidem minutis dissecant ambagibus, Ut quisque lingua est nequior ; Solvunt, ligantque quaestionum vincula Per syllogismos plectiles. Vae captiosis sycophantarum strophis ! Vae versipelli astutiae ! Nodos tenaces recta rumpit regula, Infesta dissertantibus. Idcirco mundi stulta delegit Deus, Ut concidant sophistica; Deque imbecillis subiugavit fortia, Simplex ut esset credere. Lapis ecce nostro fixus offensaculo est, Impingat in quem vanitas, Signum caventi, non caventi scandalum : Hunc sternit, illum dirigit. Dum plura tentat caecus incerto gradu, Incurrit id quod obvium est. Fax sola Fidei est praeferenda gressibus, Ut recta sint vestigia. Quis in tenebris hostis errantes tamen Pulsat, trahitque, et proterit? Qui sparsa ad ipsum commeantum transitum Frumenta saevus devorat : Qui laeta Christi culta fur interpolat, Addens avenas aemulas, Quas de veneni lacte in herbam fertiles Patitur colonus crescere, Ne forte culmen fibra inanis spiceum Simul revulsa internecet. Exspectat ergo, dum dolosa et farrea Fervens coquat maturitas, Det ventilabro lecta quaeque ut horreis, Urat recrementum focis. Refert sed ipsa nosse, quae messem necant, Zizaniorum semina.

They attack the state of the almighty God with slanderous quarrels. They cut the faith to pieces with minute evasions, each according to the wickedness of his tongue; they loose and bind the chains of questions through plaited syllogisms. Woe to the captious tricks of the sycophants! Woe to the turncoat cunning! The straight rule bursts the tenacious knots, hostile to the disputants. That is why God chose the foolish things of the world, so that sophistries might fall, and subdued the strong by the weak, so that believing might be simple. See, a stone is set for us to stumble on, against which vanity may strike, a sign to the wary, to the unwary a stumbling block: this one it lays low, that one it guides. While the blind man tries many ways with uncertain step, he runs into what is in his way. The torch of Faith alone must be carried before our steps, so that our footsteps may be straight. Who is the enemy who in the darkness strikes those who wander, drags them and tramples them? He who savagely devours the grain scattered on the very path of those who go along; he who, a thief, corrupts the glad crops of Christ, adding rival wild oats, which, fertile in grass from the milk of poison, the farmer allows to grow, lest perhaps the empty root, pulled up with them, should destroy the stalk with its ear. So he waits until ripeness, seething, cooks the deceitful and the wheaten, so that the winnowing-fan may give each chosen thing to the barns and burn the refuse in the fires. But it matters to know the very seeds of the darnel, which kill the harvest.

1 Cor 1:27 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Pet 2:8 (allusion, high confidence) · Ps 119:105 (118:105 Vulg.) (echo, medium confidence) · Matt 13:4 (allusion, medium confidence) · Matt 13:25 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 13:30 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 3:12 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Heretics tear the faith apart with syllogisms, but God chose the foolish to confound the wise, and Christ is the stone of stumbling; faith alone lights the way; the devil sows tares in Christ’s field, which God lets grow until the harvest, but their seeds must be known.

  • 1 Cor 1:27; 1 Pet 2:7–8; Matt 13:4, 24–30; 3:12; Ps 119:105.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Statum lacessunt omnipollentis Dei Cahimniosis litibus. Fidem minutis dissecant ambagibus, Ut quisque lingua est nequior ; Solvunt, ligantque quaestionum vincula Per syllogismos plectiles. Yae captiosis sycophantarum strophis ! Vae versipelli astutiae ! ' Nodos tenaces recta rumpit regula, Infesta dissertantibus. Idcirco mundi stulta delegit Deus, Ut concidant sophistica; Deque imbeciUis subiugavit fortia, Simplex ut esset credere. Lapis ecce nostro flxns offensaculo est, Imi)ingat in qnem vanitas, Signum caventi, non caventi scandalum : Hunc sternit, illura dirigit. Dum plura tentat caecus incerto gradu, Incurrit id quod obvium est. Fax sola Fidei est praeferenda gressibus, Ut recta sint vestigia. Quis in tenebris liostis errantes tamen Pnlsat, trahitque, et proterit? Qui sparsa ad ipsum commeantum transitum Frumenta saevus devorat : Qui laeta Christi culta fur interpolat, Addens avenas aemulas, Quas de veneni lacte in herbam fertiles Patitur colonus crescere , Ne forte culmen fibra inanis spiceum Simul revulsa internecet. Expectat ergo, dum dolosa et farrea Fervens coquat maturitas, Det ventilabro lecta quaeque ut liorreis, Urat recremontum focis. Refert sed ipsa nosse, quae raessem necant, Zizaniorum semina. → Statum lacessunt omnipollentis Dei Calumniosis litibus. Fidem minutis dissecant ambagibus, Ut quisque lingua est nequior ; Solvunt, ligantque quaestionum vincula Per syllogismos plectiles. Vae captiosis sycophantarum strophis ! Vae versipelli astutiae ! Nodos tenaces recta rumpit regula, Infesta dissertantibus. Idcirco mundi stulta delegit Deus, Ut concidant sophistica; Deque imbecillis subiugavit fortia, Simplex ut esset credere. Lapis ecce nostro fixus offensaculo est, Impingat in quem vanitas, Signum caventi, non caventi scandalum : Hunc sternit, illum dirigit. Dum plura tentat caecus incerto gradu, Incurrit id quod obvium est. Fax sola Fidei est praeferenda gressibus, Ut recta sint vestigia. Quis in tenebris hostis errantes tamen Pulsat, trahitque, et proterit? Qui sparsa ad ipsum commeantum transitum Frumenta saevus devorat : Qui laeta Christi culta fur interpolat, Addens avenas aemulas, Quas de veneni lacte in herbam fertiles Patitur colonus crescere, Ne forte culmen fibra inanis spiceum Simul revulsa internecet. Exspectat ergo, dum dolosa et farrea Fervens coquat maturitas, Det ventilabro lecta quaeque ut horreis, Urat recrementum focis. Refert sed ipsa nosse, quae messem necant, Zizaniorum semina..

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 0.31 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 31–68; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/0-31). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Lanfranchi's edition (Turin, 1898; OCR, corrections logged); checked afterwards privately against FOTC 52.

Chapter 1

1.1Lanfranchi 2:lines 1–30

Plurima sunt, sed pauca loquar, ne dira vel ausu Dogmata catholicam maculent male prodita linguam. Ille Patrem pellens solio detrudit in artum Corporis humani gestamen, nec pavet ipsum Obiectare neci, duroque adfigere ligno. Passibilisne Deus? cuius species et imago Nulli visa umquam; nec enim comprendier illa Maiestas facilis sensuve, oculisve, manuve. Haud umquam testata Deum potuisse videri. Ille Pater, quem nulla acies violenta tuendo Eminus ardentis penetravit acumine visus, Qui se forma hominis non induit, et deitatis Immensum adsumpto non temperat ore, modove. Aut Evangelici pietas spernenda libelli, Vis intacta Patris, non admiscenda caducis. Sed tamen et Patris est specimen, quod cernere fas sit, Humanis aliquando oculis concurrere promptum. Quod quamvis hebes intuitus speculamine glauco, Humentique acie potuit nebulosus adire. Quisque hominum vidisse Deum memoratur, ab ipso Infusum vidit Gnatum : nam Filius hoc est, Quod de Patre micans se praestitit inspiciendum Per species, quas possit homo comprendere visu. Nam mera maiestas est infinita, nec intrat Obtutus, aliquo ni se moderamine formet. Hoc vidit princeps generosi seminis Abram, Hospes homo, in triplicem numen radiasse figuram. Hoc conluctantis tractarunt brachia Iacob. Ipse dator legis divinae accedere coram Comminus, et sacris coniunxit verba loquelis,

There are very many errors, but I will speak of few, lest dire doctrines, wickedly published, should stain the catholic tongue even by the daring of telling them. One, driving the Father from his throne, thrusts him down into the narrow burden of a human body, and does not fear to expose him to death and fix him to the hard wood. Is God capable of suffering? whose form and image no one has ever seen; for that majesty is not easy to be grasped by sense, or eyes, or hand. [John] has testified that God could never be seen. That Father, whom no keen gaze, looking from afar, has penetrated with the sharpness of burning sight, who did not put on the form of man, and does not limit the immensity of his godhead by an assumed face or measure: either the piety of the Gospel book must be spurned, or the Father’s power is untouched, not to be mixed with perishable things. But yet there is also a form of the Father which it is lawful to see, ready at times to meet human eyes; which, though dull with a gray glass of gazing, the cloudy man with moist sight could approach. Whoever of men is recorded to have seen God saw the Son, poured forth from him: for this is the Son, who, flashing forth from the Father, presented himself to be looked on through forms which man can grasp by sight. For the pure majesty is infinite, nor does it enter the gaze, unless it shapes itself by some measure. This the prince of the noble seed, Abraham, saw, a man who was host to the godhead shining in a threefold figure. This the arms of wrestling Jacob handled. The giver of the divine law himself approached face to face, close at hand, and joined words in sacred speech,

John 1:18 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Tim 6:16 (echo, medium confidence) · Gen 18:2 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 32:24 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 33:11 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Against the Patripassians, who make the Father suffer and die: the Father has never been seen; whoever in Scripture saw God (Abraham, Jacob, Moses) saw the Son, who shows the Father in forms men can grasp.

  • The Patripassian (modalist) error is refuted. Line 9 is damaged in the scan; its sense (John 1:18) is given in brackets. John 1:18; 1 Tim 6:16; Gen 18; 32:24; Exod 33:11.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Plm"ima suut, sed piiuca loquar, ue dira velatu Dogmata catholicam maculent male prodita linguam. IUe Patrem pelleiis solio detrudit in arctuin Corporis liumani gestamen, nec pavet ipsum Obiectare ueci, duroque adfigere ligno. Passibilisne Deus? cuius species et imago Nulli visa unquam; nec enim comprendier illa Maiestas facilis sensuve, oculisve, manuve. Haud unquam testata Deum potuisse videri. Ille Pater, quem nulla acies violenta tuendo Eminus ardentis penetravit acumine visus, Qui se forma liominis non induit, et deitatis Immensum adsumto non temperat ore, modove. Aut Evangelici pietas spernenda libelli Vis intacta Patris, non admiscenda caducis. Sed tamen et Patris est specimen, quodcernere fas sit, Humanis aliquando oculis concurrero promtum. Quod quamvis hebes intuitus speculamine glauco, Humentique acie potuit nebulosus adrre. Quisque hominum vidisse Deum memoratur, ab ipso Infiisum vidit Gnatum : nam Filius hoc est, Quod de Patre^micans se praestitit inspiciendum Per species, quas possit homo comp>rendere visu. Nam mera maiestas est infinita, nec intrat Obtutus, aliquo ni se moderamiue formet. Hoc vidit princeps generosi seminis Abram, Hospes homo , in triplicem numen radiasse iiguram. Hoc conhictantis tractarunt brachia lacoh. Ipse dator legis divinae accedere coram Comminus, et sacris coniunxit verha loquelis, → Plurima sunt, sed pauca loquar, ne dira vel ausu Dogmata catholicam maculent male prodita linguam. Ille Patrem pellens solio detrudit in artum Corporis humani gestamen, nec pavet ipsum Obiectare neci, duroque adfigere ligno. Passibilisne Deus? cuius species et imago Nulli visa umquam; nec enim comprendier illa Maiestas facilis sensuve, oculisve, manuve. Haud umquam testata Deum potuisse videri. Ille Pater, quem nulla acies violenta tuendo Eminus ardentis penetravit acumine visus, Qui se forma hominis non induit, et deitatis Immensum adsumpto non temperat ore, modove. Aut Evangelici pietas spernenda libelli, Vis intacta Patris, non admiscenda caducis. Sed tamen et Patris est specimen, quod cernere fas sit, Humanis aliquando oculis concurrere promptum. Quod quamvis hebes intuitus speculamine glauco, Humentique acie potuit nebulosus adire. Quisque hominum vidisse Deum memoratur, ab ipso Infusum vidit Gnatum : nam Filius hoc est, Quod de Patre micans se praestitit inspiciendum Per species, quas possit homo comprendere visu. Nam mera maiestas est infinita, nec intrat Obtutus, aliquo ni se moderamine formet. Hoc vidit princeps generosi seminis Abram, Hospes homo, in triplicem numen radiasse figuram. Hoc conluctantis tractarunt brachia Iacob. Ipse dator legis divinae accedere coram Comminus, et sacris coniunxit verba loquelis,.

Topics: Trinity, Christology, Heresy

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.1 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 1–30; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.31Lanfranchi 2:lines 31–60

Carnis in effigie Christum se cernere sensit. Sed maiora petens, animum per vota tetendit Inconcessa homini, plusquam mortale laborans, Ipsum, quantus erat, sine corpore visere Christum. Denique post multi sermonis mutua, postque Conspectum praesentis Heri, et consortia longa, Quaeso, ait, ut liceat te nunc, Deus optime, nosse. Respondit Dominus : mea, non me, cernere iustis Posteriora dabo. Quid apertius, absque aliena Quam sumpta facie Verbum non posse videri? Posse tamen, quum malit idem, numquam Patre viso Terrenis oculis, habitu se ostendere nostro : Saepe et in angelicas vel mortales moderatum Induci species, queat ut sub imagine cerni. Hoc Verbum est, quod vibratum Patris ore benigno Sumpsit virgineo fragilem de corpore formam. Inde figura hominis nondum sub carne, Moysi Obiecta, effigiem nostri signaverat oris : Quod quandoque Deus Verbi virtute coactum Sumpturus corpus, faciem referebat eamdem. Sed tamen et sentem visa est excita cremare, Vulnificasque comas innoxius ignis agebat : Esset ut exemplo Deus inlapsurus in artus Spiniferos: sudibus quos texunt crimina densis, Et peccata malis hirsuta doloribus implent. Inculto nam stirpe frutex vitiosus iniquis Luxuriam virgis inhonesto effundere succo Coeperat, et nodos per acumina crebra ligabat. Cernere erat steriles subito splendescere frondes, Conlucere Deum, nec spinea laedere texta, Lambere sanguineos fructus, et poma cruenta,

perceived that he saw Christ in the likeness of flesh. But, seeking greater things, he stretched his mind through prayers not granted to man, laboring for more than mortal, to see Christ himself, as great as he was, without a body. At last, after the exchange of much speech, and after the sight of his present Master and long companionship, “I pray,” he says, “that I may now know you, best God.” The Lord answered: “To the righteous I will give to see my back parts, not me.” What could be plainer: that without a borrowed face assumed, the Word cannot be seen? Yet he can, when he wishes, though the Father is never seen by earthly eyes, show himself in our dress; and often, adapted, he takes on angelic or mortal forms, so that he may be seen under an image. This is the Word, which, sent forth from the kindly mouth of the Father, took a fragile form from a virgin’s body. Hence the figure of a man, not yet in flesh, set before Moses, had marked out the likeness of our face: for, as God was one day to take a body, drawn together by the power of the Word, he showed the same face. And yet a fire, roused, was seen to burn the bramble, and the harmless fire drove through the wounding foliage, so that it might be an example that God would come down into thorny limbs, which crimes weave with dense stakes, and sins fill, bristling with evil pains. For the faulty shrub, from an uncultivated stock, had begun to pour out luxury with wicked shoots and shameful sap, and bound knots through frequent points. One could see the barren leaves suddenly shine, God glowing, and not harming the thorny weave, licking the bloody fruits and gory apples,

Exod 33:18 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 33:23 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 3:2 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Moses saw Christ in human likeness and was granted only to see God’s back; the Word can be seen only in an assumed form, angelic or human, as in the burning bush, a figure of God entering our thorny, sinful flesh without being harmed.

  • Exod 33:18–23; 3:2. In line 9 the scan reads ‘absque aliena’, joined to ‘quam sumpta facie’ in the next line.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Carnis in effigie Christum se cernere sensit. Sod maiora petens, animum per vota tetendit Inconcessa homini, plusquam mortale laborans, Ipsum, quantus erat, sine corpore visere Christum. Denique post multi sermonis mutua, postque Conspectum praesentis Heri, et consortia longa, Quaeso, ait, ut liceat te uunc, Deus optime, nosse. Respondit Dominus : mea, non me, cernere iustis _ Posteriora daho, quid apertius, absque aliena,^ Quam sumat facie Verbum non posse videri? Posse tamen, quum malit idem , numquam Patro viso Terrenis oculis, habitu se ostendere nostro : Saepe et in angelicas vel mortales moderatum Induci species, queat ut sub imagine cerni. Hoc Verbum est, quod vibratum Patris ore benigno Sumsit virgineo fragilem de corpore formam. Inde figura hominis nondum sub carne, Moysi Obiecta, eftigiem nostri signaverat oris : Quod quandoque Deus Verbi vii-tute coactum Sumturus corpus, faciem referebat eamdem. '^Sed tamen et sentam visa est excita cremarc ,' Vulnificasque comas innoxius ignis agebat : Esset ut exemplo Deus inlapsurus in artus Spiniferos: sudibus quos texunt crimina densis, Et peccata malis hirsuta doloribus implent. Inculto nam stirpe frutox vitiosus iniquis Luxuriam virgis iiihonestoeffundere succo Coepcrat, et nodof; per acumiiia crebra ligabat. ^* Cerncre erat steriles subito splendescere frondes, Conlucere Deum, noc spinea laedere texta, Lambere sanguineos fructus, ot poma cruenta, → Carnis in effigie Christum se cernere sensit. Sed maiora petens, animum per vota tetendit Inconcessa homini, plusquam mortale laborans, Ipsum, quantus erat, sine corpore visere Christum. Denique post multi sermonis mutua, postque Conspectum praesentis Heri, et consortia longa, Quaeso, ait, ut liceat te nunc, Deus optime, nosse. Respondit Dominus : mea, non me, cernere iustis Posteriora dabo. Quid apertius, absque aliena Quam sumpta facie Verbum non posse videri? Posse tamen, quum malit idem, numquam Patre viso Terrenis oculis, habitu se ostendere nostro : Saepe et in angelicas vel mortales moderatum Induci species, queat ut sub imagine cerni. Hoc Verbum est, quod vibratum Patris ore benigno Sumpsit virgineo fragilem de corpore formam. Inde figura hominis nondum sub carne, Moysi Obiecta, effigiem nostri signaverat oris : Quod quandoque Deus Verbi virtute coactum Sumpturus corpus, faciem referebat eamdem. Sed tamen et sentem visa est excita cremare, Vulnificasque comas innoxius ignis agebat : Esset ut exemplo Deus inlapsurus in artus Spiniferos: sudibus quos texunt crimina densis, Et peccata malis hirsuta doloribus implent. Inculto nam stirpe frutex vitiosus iniquis Luxuriam virgis inhonesto effundere succo Coeperat, et nodos per acumina crebra ligabat. Cernere erat steriles subito splendescere frondes, Conlucere Deum, nec spinea laedere texta, Lambere sanguineos fructus, et poma cruenta,.

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.31 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 31–60; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-31). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.61Lanfranchi 2:lines 61–90

Stringere mortiferi vitalia germina ligni. Quandoquidem tristes purgantur sanguine culpae. Ergo nihil visum, nisi quod sub carne videndum Lumen, imago Dei, Verbum Deus, et Deus ignis, Qui sentem nostri peccaminis corporis implet. Nam lucis Genitor, Verbi sator, auctor et ignis Creditur extra oculos, ut Apostolus edocet auctor : Qui negat intuitu fontem deitatis adiri : Credite, nemo Deum vidit, mihi credite, nemo. Visibilis de fonte Deus, non ipse Dei fons Visibilis, cerni potis est qui nascitur, at non Innatus cerni potis est: latet os Patris illud, Unde Deus: qui visibilem se praestitit olim, Tale aliquid formans in sese, quale secuta est Passio, quae corpus sibi vindicat; ardua nam vis Est impassibilis ; quoniam natura superni Ignis ad horrificas nescit descendere poenas, Nec capit humanis angoribus excruciari, Pura, serena, micans, liquido praelibera motu, Subdita nec cuiquam, dominatrix utpote rerum : Cui non principium de tempore, sed super omne Tempus, et ante diem maiestas cum Patre summo, Immo animus Patris, et ratio, et via consiliorum, Quae non facta manu, nec voce creata iubentis, Protulit imperium patrio ructata profundo. Hanc igitur non flagra secant, non sputa salivis Adspergunt, alapis non vexat palma relisis, Nec perfossa cruci clavorum vulnera figunt. His adfecta caro est hominis, quam femina praegnans

gathering the life-giving shoots of the death-bearing tree, since sad sins are cleansed by blood. So nothing was seen except what was to be seen under flesh: the Light, the image of God, the Word, God, and God fire, who fills the bramble of our body’s sin. For the begetter of light, the sower of the Word, the author of the fire too is believed to be beyond the eyes, as the Apostle, the authority, teaches, who denies that the fountain of the godhead can be approached by sight: believe, no one has seen God; believe me, no one. God from the fountain is visible; the fountain of God itself is not visible: he who is born can be seen, but the unborn cannot be seen: that mouth of the Father is hidden from which God comes; who once made himself visible, forming in himself something like what followed, the passion, which claims a body for itself; for the lofty power is impassible, since the nature of the heavenly fire knows not how to descend to dreadful punishments, nor can it be tortured by human anguish, pure, serene, flashing, free in clear motion, subject to no one, as mistress of things: which has no beginning from time, but is a majesty above all time, and before the day, with the supreme Father; nay rather, the Father’s mind and reason and the way of his counsels, which, not made by hand nor created by the voice of one commanding, brought forth his command, uttered from the Father’s depth. This, then, no scourges cut, no spittle sprinkles, no palm harasses with dashing slaps, no wounds of nails pierce it on the cross. These things affected the flesh of the man, which a pregnant woman

1 Tim 6:16 (allusion, high confidence) · John 1:18 (allusion, high confidence) · Col 1:15 (allusion, medium confidence) · Heb 12:29 (echo, medium confidence) · Matt 26:67 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Only the Son, the image of God, is seen; the Father, the fountain of the godhead, is invisible; the divine nature of the Word is impassible and eternal, and the scourging, spitting and nails fell on the flesh of the man he assumed.

  • 1 Tim 6:16; John 1:18; Col 1:15. A running head was removed.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Stringere mortiferi vitalia germina ligni. \ Quandoquidem tristes purgantur sangiiine culpae, \ Ergo nihil visum, nisi quod sub carne videndum Lumen, imago Dei.Yerbum Deus, et Deus ignis, Qui sentum nostri peccamon corporis implet. Nam lucis Genitor, Verbi sator, auctor et ignis Creditur extra oculos, ut Apostolus edocet auctor : Qui negat intuitu fontem deitatis adiri : Credite, nemo Deum vidit, mihi crodite, nomo. Visibilis de fonte Deus, non ipse Dei fons Visibilis, cerni potis est qui nascitur, at non Innatus cerni potis est: latot os Patris illud, Vnde Deus: qui visibilem se praestitit olim, Tale aliquid formans in sese, quale socuta est Passio, quae corpus sibi vindicat; ardua nam vis A. Prvdentu Operu Est impassibilis ; quoiiiam natura superni Ignis ad horrificas nescit descendere poenas, Nec capit humanis angoribus excruciari, Pura, serena, micans , liquido praelibera motu, Sul)dita nec cuiquam, dominatrix utpote rerum : Cui non principium de tempore, sed super omne Tempus, et ante diem maiestas cum Patre summo, Immo animus Patris, et ratio, et via consilioruin, Quae non faeta manu, nec voce creata iubentis, Protulit imperium patrio ructata profimdo. Hanc igitur non flagra secant, non sputa salivis Adspergunt, alapis non vexat palma relisis , Nec perfossa cruci clavorum vuhiera figunt. His adfecta caro est horainis, quam femina praegnans → Stringere mortiferi vitalia germina ligni. Quandoquidem tristes purgantur sanguine culpae. Ergo nihil visum, nisi quod sub carne videndum Lumen, imago Dei, Verbum Deus, et Deus ignis, Qui sentem nostri peccaminis corporis implet. Nam lucis Genitor, Verbi sator, auctor et ignis Creditur extra oculos, ut Apostolus edocet auctor : Qui negat intuitu fontem deitatis adiri : Credite, nemo Deum vidit, mihi credite, nemo. Visibilis de fonte Deus, non ipse Dei fons Visibilis, cerni potis est qui nascitur, at non Innatus cerni potis est: latet os Patris illud, Unde Deus: qui visibilem se praestitit olim, Tale aliquid formans in sese, quale secuta est Passio, quae corpus sibi vindicat; ardua nam vis Est impassibilis ; quoniam natura superni Ignis ad horrificas nescit descendere poenas, Nec capit humanis angoribus excruciari, Pura, serena, micans, liquido praelibera motu, Subdita nec cuiquam, dominatrix utpote rerum : Cui non principium de tempore, sed super omne Tempus, et ante diem maiestas cum Patre summo, Immo animus Patris, et ratio, et via consiliorum, Quae non facta manu, nec voce creata iubentis, Protulit imperium patrio ructata profundo. Hanc igitur non flagra secant, non sputa salivis Adspergunt, alapis non vexat palma relisis, Nec perfossa cruci clavorum vulnera figunt. His adfecta caro est hominis, quam femina praegnans.

Topics: Christology, Trinity

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.61 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 61–90; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-61). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.91Lanfranchi 2:lines 91–120

Enixa est sub lege uteri, sine lege mariti. Ille famem patitur, fel potat, et haurit acetum : Ille pavet mortis faciem, tremit ille dolorem. Dicite, sacrilegi doctores, qui Patre summo Desertum iacuisse thronum contenditis, illo Tempore, quo fragiles Deus est inlapsus in artus: Ergo Pater passus ? quid non malus audeat error ! Ipse puellari conceptus sanguine crevit? Ipse verecundae distendit Virginis alvum ? Et iam falsiloqua est divini pagina libri, Quae Verbum in carnis loquitur fluxisse figuram? At non, qui Verbi Pater est, caro factus habetur. Fige gradum, Scriptura, tuum : nil mobile et anceps Adfirmasse decet: Pater est, quem cernere nulli Est licitum : Pater est, qui numquam visus in orbe est, Nec mundana inter radiavit lumina coram. Verbum conspicuum misit, missumque recepit Quum voluit : Verbo perstrinxit viscera purae Virginis, et Verbo struxit puerilia membra. Ipse quidem in terris virtute et numine praesens Semper adest quocumque loci : nec pars vacat ulla Maiestate Patris ; nusquam est genitor Deus absens : Per Verbum sed semper adest ; atque inde Philippo Christus ait: « Tanto tecum iam tempore versor, Et Patrem te nosse negas, quem perspicis in me? » Est invisibilis donum Patris, edere natum Visibilem, per quem valeat Pater ipse videri; Nec solis sanctorum oculis, sed lumine cassis. Caecorum caecos loquor, atra socordia quorum Corde tenebroso verum perpendere nescit.

brought forth under the law of the womb, without the law of a husband. He suffers hunger, drinks gall, and drains vinegar; he fears the face of death, he trembles at pain. Tell me, sacrilegious teachers, who contend that the throne of the supreme Father lay deserted at that time when God came down into fragile limbs: did the Father, then, suffer? What would wicked error not dare! Was he himself conceived in a girl’s blood and did he grow? Did he himself swell the womb of the modest Virgin? And is the page of the divine book now false, which says that the Word flowed into the form of flesh? But he who is Father of the Word is not held to have been made flesh. Fix your step, Scripture: it is not fitting to have affirmed anything shifting and doubtful: the Father is he whom no one is allowed to see: the Father is he who has never been seen in the world, nor shone openly among worldly lights. He sent the Word visible, and received him back when sent, when he willed: by the Word he touched the womb of the pure Virgin, and by the Word built the child’s limbs. He himself, present on earth by power and divinity, is always present in every place: no part is empty of the Father’s majesty; nowhere is God the begetter absent: but he is always present through the Word; and hence to Philip Christ says: “I have been with you so long a time, and do you say you do not know the Father, whom you see in me?” It is the gift of the invisible Father to bring forth a Son visible, through whom the Father himself can be seen; and not only by the eyes of the saints, but by those without sight. I speak of the blindest of the blind, whose black sloth knows not how to weigh the truth with darkened heart.

Matt 27:34 (allusion, medium confidence) · John 1:14 (allusion, high confidence) · John 14:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 23:24 (echo, low confidence)

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Summary: Christ’s flesh, born of the Virgin, hungered, suffered and feared death; the Patripassians wrongly make the Father incarnate; Scripture says the Word, not the Father, became flesh; the Father is present everywhere through the Word and is seen in the Son.

  • John 1:14; 14:9; Matt 27:34.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Enixa est sub lege uteri, sine lege mariti. Ille famem patitur, fel potat, et liaurit acetum : Ille pavet mortis faciem, tremit ille dolorem. Dicite, sacrilegi doctores,' qui Patre summo Desertum iacuisse thronum contenditis, illo Tempore, quo fragiles Deus est inlapsus in artus/ Ergo Pater passus ? quid non mahis audeat error ! - • Ipse puellari conceptus sanguine crevit! Ipse verecundae distendit Virginis alvum ? Et iam falsiloqua est divini pagina libri, Quae Verbum in carnis loquitur fluxisse figuram? At non, qui Verbi Pater est, caro factus liabetur. Fige gradum Scriptura tuum : nil mobile ot anceps Adfirmasse decet: Pater est, quem cernere nulli Est licitum : Pater est, qui numquam visus in orbe est. Nec mundana intcr radiavit luuiina coram. Verbum conspicuum raisit, missumque recepit Quum voluit : Verbo perstrinxit viscera purae Virginis, et Verbo struxit puorilia membra. Ipse quidem in t^rris virtute et numine praesens Semper adest quocumque loci : nec pars vacat uUa Maiestate Patris ; inisquam est genitor Deus absens : Per Verbum sed semper adest ; atque inde Pliilippo Christus ait: « Tanto tecum iam tempore versor, Et Pati-em te nosse negas, quem j^erspicis in me? Est invisibilis donum Patris, edere natum Visibilem, per quem valeat Pater ipse videri; Nec solis sanctorum oculis, sed lumino cassis. Caecorum caecos loquor, atra socordia quorum Corde tenebroso verum per])endere nes-cit. → Enixa est sub lege uteri, sine lege mariti. Ille famem patitur, fel potat, et haurit acetum : Ille pavet mortis faciem, tremit ille dolorem. Dicite, sacrilegi doctores, qui Patre summo Desertum iacuisse thronum contenditis, illo Tempore, quo fragiles Deus est inlapsus in artus: Ergo Pater passus ? quid non malus audeat error ! Ipse puellari conceptus sanguine crevit? Ipse verecundae distendit Virginis alvum ? Et iam falsiloqua est divini pagina libri, Quae Verbum in carnis loquitur fluxisse figuram? At non, qui Verbi Pater est, caro factus habetur. Fige gradum, Scriptura, tuum : nil mobile et anceps Adfirmasse decet: Pater est, quem cernere nulli Est licitum : Pater est, qui numquam visus in orbe est, Nec mundana inter radiavit lumina coram. Verbum conspicuum misit, missumque recepit Quum voluit : Verbo perstrinxit viscera purae Virginis, et Verbo struxit puerilia membra. Ipse quidem in terris virtute et numine praesens Semper adest quocumque loci : nec pars vacat ulla Maiestate Patris ; nusquam est genitor Deus absens : Per Verbum sed semper adest ; atque inde Philippo Christus ait: « Tanto tecum iam tempore versor, Et Patrem te nosse negas, quem perspicis in me? » Est invisibilis donum Patris, edere natum Visibilem, per quem valeat Pater ipse videri; Nec solis sanctorum oculis, sed lumine cassis. Caecorum caecos loquor, atra socordia quorum Corde tenebroso verum perpendere nescit..

Topics: Christology, Trinity, Heresy

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.91 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 91–120; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-91). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.121Lanfranchi 2:lines 121–150

Quem si perspicuum mortalibus infitiaris, Fare age, quem videat Babylonis ab arce tyrannus Innocuas inter flammas procul exspatiantem, Calcantem rapidos inadustis fratribus ignes. Nempe ait: — « O proceres, tres vasta incendia anhelis Accepere viros fornacibus ; additus unus Ecce vaporiferos ridens intersecat ignes. Filius ille Dei est ; fateorque et victus adoro: Inritas removete faces, taedasque tepentes Subtrahite: friget succensi sulphuris ardor. Filius (haud dubium est) agit haec miracula rerum, Quem video : Deus ipse, Dei certissima proles. Imperat immensis ardoribus, et domat iras, Insultans, famulante rogo, piceosque furores Comprimit, et rabiem flammarum algescere cogit : Barbaricos calida aura sinus non tangere iussa Praeterit, et tenues stridens transcurrit amictus. Ipse per Assyrias metuit vapor ire tiaras, Ne coma fusa humeris fumo obsordescat amaro. » — Haec ait; et varios iubet obmutescere cantus, Organa, sambucas, citharas, calamosque, tubasque. Stulta superstitio tacuit : vox festa quievit, Quae male conspicuae celebrabat imaginis aurum. Carmina sanctorum resonant iam sola virorum, Triplice concentu Regem laudantia caeli, Qui mare, qui terras, qui lucida sidera fecit, Ignibus et mediis securos texit alumnos. Semper in auxilium sermo Patris omnipotentis Descendit servando homini : mortalia semper Admiscenda sibi proprio curavit amore :

If you deny that he was visible to mortals, come, tell me, whom did the tyrant see from the citadel of Babylon walking about far off amid harmless flames, treading the rushing fires, his brothers unburned? He says, indeed: “O nobles, the vast fires in the panting furnaces have received three men; see, one added cuts smiling through the steaming fires. That one is the Son of God; I confess it and, conquered, I adore: take away the useless torches, and withdraw the warm pine-brands: the heat of the kindled sulphur is cold. It is the Son (there is no doubt) who does these wonders, whom I see: God himself, the most certain offspring of God. He commands the immense heats and tames their wrath, mocking it, the pyre serving him, and checks the pitchy fury, and forces the rage of the flames to grow cold; the hot air, ordered not to touch the barbarian robes, passes by, and runs hissing through their thin garments. The very heat is afraid to go through the Assyrian tiaras, lest the hair flowing on their shoulders be soiled with bitter smoke.” So he says; and he orders the various songs to fall silent, organs, harps, lutes, reeds and trumpets. The foolish superstition fell silent; the festal voice was still, which wickedly celebrated the gold of the conspicuous image. The songs of the holy men alone now resound, praising in threefold harmony the King of heaven, who made the sea, the lands, the bright stars, and protected his nurslings, safe in the midst of the fires. The Word of the almighty Father always comes down to help man, to save him; he has always taken care, in his own love, to mingle mortal things with himself,

Dan 3:25 (allusion, high confidence) · Dan 3:5 (allusion, medium confidence) · Dan 3:27 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Nebuchadnezzar saw the Son of God walking with the three young men in the furnace and confessed him; the idolatrous music fell silent and the three praised God; the Word has always come down to help and save mankind.

  • Dan 3:5–7, 24–28 (with the Song of the Three Young Men).

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Quem si perspicuura mortalibus infitiaris, Fare age, quem videat Babvlonis ab arce tyrannus Innocaas inter flammas procul cxspatiantem, Calcantem rapidos inadustis fratribus ignes. ifempt' ait: — « o proceres, tres vasta incendia anhelis Accepere viros fornacibus ; additus unus jEcce vaporiferos ridens iutersecat ignes. I Filius ille Dei esi ; fateorque et victus adoro: Inrisas removete faces, taedasque tepontes Subtrahite: friget succensi sulpliuris ardor. ) Filius (liaud dubium est), agit liaec miracula reruiu : Quem video : Deus ipse, Dei certissima proles. Imperat immensis ardoribus, et domat iras, Insultans, famulante rogo, piceosque furores Comprimit, et rabiem flammarum algescore cogit : Barbaricos calida aura sinus non tangere iussa Praeterit, et tenues stridens transcurrit amictus. Ipso per Assyrios metuit vapor ire tiaras; ^Ne coma fusa humeris fumo obsordescat amaro. » — Haec ait; et varios iubet obmntescere ca)itus, Orgaiia, sambucas, citharas, calamosque, tubasqne. Stulta superstitio tacuit : vox festa quicvit, Quae male conspicuae celebrabat imag-inis aurum. Carmina sanctornm resonant iam sola virorum, Triplice concentu Kegem landantia caeli, Qui mare, qui terras, qui lucida sidera fecit, Ignibus et mediis securos texit alumnos. Seraper in auxilinm sermo Patris omnipotentis Descendit servando homini : mortalia semper Admiscenda sibi i^roprio cnravit amore : → Quem si perspicuum mortalibus infitiaris, Fare age, quem videat Babylonis ab arce tyrannus Innocuas inter flammas procul exspatiantem, Calcantem rapidos inadustis fratribus ignes. Nempe ait: — « O proceres, tres vasta incendia anhelis Accepere viros fornacibus ; additus unus Ecce vaporiferos ridens intersecat ignes. Filius ille Dei est ; fateorque et victus adoro: Inritas removete faces, taedasque tepentes Subtrahite: friget succensi sulphuris ardor. Filius (haud dubium est) agit haec miracula rerum, Quem video : Deus ipse, Dei certissima proles. Imperat immensis ardoribus, et domat iras, Insultans, famulante rogo, piceosque furores Comprimit, et rabiem flammarum algescere cogit : Barbaricos calida aura sinus non tangere iussa Praeterit, et tenues stridens transcurrit amictus. Ipse per Assyrias metuit vapor ire tiaras, Ne coma fusa humeris fumo obsordescat amaro. » — Haec ait; et varios iubet obmutescere cantus, Organa, sambucas, citharas, calamosque, tubasque. Stulta superstitio tacuit : vox festa quievit, Quae male conspicuae celebrabat imaginis aurum. Carmina sanctorum resonant iam sola virorum, Triplice concentu Regem laudantia caeli, Qui mare, qui terras, qui lucida sidera fecit, Ignibus et mediis securos texit alumnos. Semper in auxilium sermo Patris omnipotentis Descendit servando homini : mortalia semper Admiscenda sibi proprio curavit amore :.

Extrabiblical texts: Pr Azar 28-68 (Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Young Men [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; allusion)

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.121 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 121–150; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-121). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.151Lanfranchi 2:lines 151–180

Ut socianda caro, Dominoque implenda perenni, Degenerem vitam, quae tunc animalis agebat, Exemplo mutaret Heri, similesque per artus Cernere consortem terreni adsuesceret oris ; Participemque suum visu velut obside nosse, Et consanguineo paullatim accedere Christo. Ergo animalis homo quondam ; nunc Spiritus illum Transtulit ad superi naturam seminis, ipsum Infundendo Deum, mortalia vivificantem. Nunc nova materies, solidata intercute flatu, Materies, sed nostra tamen; de Virgine tracta. Exuit antiquae corrupta exordia vitae, Immortale bonum proprio spiramine sumens. Filius ille hominis, sed Filius ille Tonantis, Iam solus vultum Patris adspicit et videt ipsum. Nemo Patrem novit nisi Filius, et cui monstrat Filius, et nostri mediator et Omnipotentis. Denique concludam brevis ut compendia summae: Non Pater in carnem descendit, sed Patris arcem Sumpta caro adscendit. Natus per utrumque cucurrit. Cede, profanator Christi, iam cede, Sabelli, Depositorque Patris, Natique insane negator. Nonne Patrem violas, dum Natum scire recusas? Quandoquidem non est genitor, nisi filius exstet; Nec vocitare Patrem potis es, quem germine fraudas. Sed fortasse velis patriae pietatis honore Despoliare Deum, contentus nomine nudo, Quod Deus est, adimasque decus Patris, et generis vim. Ecquis in idolio recubans, inter sacra mille, Ridiculosque deos venerans sale, caespite, ture,

so that flesh, to be joined to him and filled with the eternal Lord, might change the degenerate life it then led as natural man by the example of its Master, and, through limbs like its own, might grow used to seeing a sharer of its earthly face, and to know its partner by sight as by a hostage, and little by little to approach Christ its blood-kin. So man was once natural; now the Spirit has carried him over to the nature of the heavenly seed, pouring God himself into him, giving life to mortal things. Now it is new matter, made solid by a breath under the skin, matter, but ours nevertheless, drawn from the Virgin. It has put off the corrupt beginnings of the old life, taking up immortal good by its own breath. He, the Son of man, but also the Son of the Thunderer, alone now beholds the Father’s face and sees him himself. No one knows the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son shows him, the mediator between us and the Almighty. In short, to conclude briefly the sum of the matter: the Father did not come down into flesh, but the flesh that was taken went up to the Father’s citadel. The Son ran through both. Give way, profaner of Christ, give way now, Sabellius, deposer of the Father and mad denier of the Son. Do you not violate the Father, while you refuse to know the Son? For there is no begetter unless a son exists; nor can you call him Father whom you cheat of offspring. But perhaps you would wish to strip God of the honor of fatherly love, content with the bare name that he is God, and take away the glory of Father and the force of generation. Is there anyone, lying in an idol’s temple among a thousand rites, worshiping ridiculous gods with salt, turf and incense,

1 Cor 15:46 (allusion, medium confidence) · Matt 11:27 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Tim 2:5 (allusion, high confidence) · John 6:46 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: The Word took human flesh so that man might become spiritual and immortal; the Son of man alone sees the Father; the Father did not come down into flesh, but the flesh went up to the Father; Sabellius, who denies the Son, also destroys the Father.

  • 1 Cor 15:45–47; Matt 11:27; 1 Tim 2:5.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Vt socianda caro, Dominoque implenda porenni, Degenerem vitam, quae tnnc animalis agebat, Exemplo mutaret Heri, similesqne per artns Ceniere consortem terreni adsuesceret oris ; Participemque suum visn velnt obside nosse, Et consanguineo panllatim accedere Christo. Ergo animalis homo qnondam ; nunc Spiritus illum Transtulit ad snperi natnram seminis, ipsum Infundendo Denm, mortalia viviticantem. Xunc nova materies, solidata intercute fiatu, Materies, scd iiostra tamen; de Virgine tracta. Exiiit antiquae corrupta exordia vitae, Immortale bonum proprio spiramine sumeus. Filius.ille liominis, sed Filius ille Tonantis, lam solus vultum Patris adspicit et videt ipsum. Nemo Patrem novit nisi Filius, et ciii monstrat (?) Filius, et nostri mediator et Omnipotentis. Denique concludam brevis ut compendia summae: Non Pater in carnem descendit, sed Patris arcem Sumta caro adscendit. Natus per utrumque cucurrit.). Cede, profanator Cluisti, iam cede, Sabelli, Depositorque Patris, Natique insane negator. Nonne Patrem violas, dum Natum scire recusas? Quandoquidem non est genitor, nisi filius exstet; Nec vocitare Patrem potis es, quem germine fraudas. jSed fortasse velis patriae pietatis honore ^Despoliare Denm, contontns nomine mulo, Qnod Deus est, adimasiiue decus Patris, et generis vim. Ecquis in idolio recubans, inter sacra mille, Kidiculosque deos venerans sale, cespite, ture, → Ut socianda caro, Dominoque implenda perenni, Degenerem vitam, quae tunc animalis agebat, Exemplo mutaret Heri, similesque per artus Cernere consortem terreni adsuesceret oris ; Participemque suum visu velut obside nosse, Et consanguineo paullatim accedere Christo. Ergo animalis homo quondam ; nunc Spiritus illum Transtulit ad superi naturam seminis, ipsum Infundendo Deum, mortalia vivificantem. Nunc nova materies, solidata intercute flatu, Materies, sed nostra tamen; de Virgine tracta. Exuit antiquae corrupta exordia vitae, Immortale bonum proprio spiramine sumens. Filius ille hominis, sed Filius ille Tonantis, Iam solus vultum Patris adspicit et videt ipsum. Nemo Patrem novit nisi Filius, et cui monstrat Filius, et nostri mediator et Omnipotentis. Denique concludam brevis ut compendia summae: Non Pater in carnem descendit, sed Patris arcem Sumpta caro adscendit. Natus per utrumque cucurrit. Cede, profanator Christi, iam cede, Sabelli, Depositorque Patris, Natique insane negator. Nonne Patrem violas, dum Natum scire recusas? Quandoquidem non est genitor, nisi filius exstet; Nec vocitare Patrem potis es, quem germine fraudas. Sed fortasse velis patriae pietatis honore Despoliare Deum, contentus nomine nudo, Quod Deus est, adimasque decus Patris, et generis vim. Ecquis in idolio recubans, inter sacra mille, Ridiculosque deos venerans sale, caespite, ture,.

Topics: Christology, Trinity, Heresy

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.151 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 151–180; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-151). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.181Lanfranchi 2:lines 181–210

Non putat esse Deum summum, et super omnia solum? Quamvis Saturnis, Iunonibus, et Cythereis, Portentisque aliis fumantes consecret aras; Attamen in caelum quoties suspexit, in uno Constituit ius omne Deo, cui serviat ingens Virtutum ratio, variis instructa ministris. Quae gens tam stolida est animis, tam barbara linguis? Quaeve superstitio tam sordida, quae caniformem Latrantemque throno caeli praeponat Anubem? Nemo Cloacinae, aut Eponae super astra deabus Dat solium, quamvis olidam persolvat acerram, Sacrilegisque molam manibus rimetur et exta. Consule barbati deliramenta Platonis : Consule et hircosus Cynicus quos somniat, et quos Texit Aristoteles torta vertigine nervos. Hos omnes quamvis anceps labyrinthus et error Circumflexus agat, quamvis promittere et ipsi Gallinam soleant, aut gallum, clinicus ut se Dignetur praestare deus morientibus aequum ; Quum ventum tamen ad normam rationis et artis, Turbidulos sensus, et litigiosa fragosis Argumenta modis concludunt numen in unum, Cuius ad arbitrium sphaera mobilis atque rotunda Volvatur, serventque suos vaga sidera cursus. Non recipit natura hominis, modo quadrupes ipse Non sit, et erecto spectet caelestia vultu, Non recipit, neget ut regimen pollere supremum. Istud et ipse Numae tacitus sibi sensit haruspex, Semifer et Scotus sentit, cane milite peior. Sed nos, qui Dominum libris et corpore iam bis

who does not think there is a supreme God, alone over all things? Although he consecrates smoking altars to Saturns, Junos and Cythereas and other monsters, yet whenever he has looked up to heaven, he places all authority in one God, whom an immense order of powers serves, equipped with various ministers. What nation is so dull in mind, so barbarous in tongue? Or what superstition so sordid that it would put dog-shaped, barking Anubis before the throne of heaven? No one gives Cloacina or Epona a throne above the stars among goddesses, though he pay a stinking censer and probe the sacrificial meal and entrails with sacrilegious hands. Consult the ravings of bearded Plato; consult those whom the goatish Cynic dreams of, and the sinews which Aristotle wove with twisted giddiness. Though a doubtful labyrinth and winding error drives them all, though they themselves are accustomed to promise a hen or a cock, so that the healing god may deign to show himself favorable to the dying; yet when they come to the rule of reason and art, they conclude their muddled senses and their contentious arguments with clattering modes in one Godhead, at whose will the moving and round sphere turns, and the wandering stars keep their courses. Human nature does not admit it, provided man is not a four-footed beast himself and looks at the heavens with upright face; it does not admit denying that a supreme rule prevails. This even Numa’s soothsayer silently felt within himself, and the half-wild Scot feels it, worse than a dog-soldier. But we, who have now seen the Lord twice, in books and in body,

Rom 1:20 (echo, medium confidence)

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Summary: Even pagans, philosophers and barbarians acknowledge one supreme God when they reason, so Christians, who have seen the Lord in Scripture and in the flesh, must all the more confess him.

  • The cock promised to Asclepius recalls the death of Socrates (Plato, Phaedo 118a).

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Xon putat esse Deum summum, et super omnia solumV Quamvis Saturnis, lunonibus, et C^-thereis, Portentisque aliis fumantes consecret aras; Attamen in caelum quoties suspexit, in uno Constituit ius omne Deo, cui serviat ingens Virtutum ratio, variis instructa ministris. Qnae gens tam stolida estanimis, tam barbara lin.guis? Quaeve superstitio tam sordida , quae caniformem Latrantemque tlirono caeli praeponat Anul^em? Nemo Cloacinae, aut Eponae super astra deabiis r>at solium, quamvis olidam persolvat acerram, Sacrilegisque molam manibus rimetur et exta. Consule barbati deliramenta Platonis : Consule et hircosus Cynicus quos somniat, etqnos Texit Aristoteles tota vertigine nervos. Hos omnes quamvis anceps labyrintlius et error Circumflcxus agat, quamvis promittere et ipsi Gallinam soleant, aut gallum, clinicus ut se Dignetur praestare deus morientibus aequum ; Quum vontum tamen ad normam rationis et artis, Tui"bidulos sensus, et litigiosa fragosis Argumenta modis concludunt numen in unum, Cuius ad arbitrium sphera (2)raobilis atque rotunda Volvatur, serventque suos vaga sidera cursus. Non recipit natura hominis, modo quadrupes ^Non sit, et orecto spectet caelostia vultu: Non recipit, neget ut regimen pollere supremum. IstudetipseXumae tacitus sibisensit haruspex, Semifer et Scotus seutit, caiie milite peior. Secl nos qni Dominum Ii1)ris et coriiore iam bis → Non putat esse Deum summum, et super omnia solum? Quamvis Saturnis, Iunonibus, et Cythereis, Portentisque aliis fumantes consecret aras; Attamen in caelum quoties suspexit, in uno Constituit ius omne Deo, cui serviat ingens Virtutum ratio, variis instructa ministris. Quae gens tam stolida est animis, tam barbara linguis? Quaeve superstitio tam sordida, quae caniformem Latrantemque throno caeli praeponat Anubem? Nemo Cloacinae, aut Eponae super astra deabus Dat solium, quamvis olidam persolvat acerram, Sacrilegisque molam manibus rimetur et exta. Consule barbati deliramenta Platonis : Consule et hircosus Cynicus quos somniat, et quos Texit Aristoteles torta vertigine nervos. Hos omnes quamvis anceps labyrinthus et error Circumflexus agat, quamvis promittere et ipsi Gallinam soleant, aut gallum, clinicus ut se Dignetur praestare deus morientibus aequum ; Quum ventum tamen ad normam rationis et artis, Turbidulos sensus, et litigiosa fragosis Argumenta modis concludunt numen in unum, Cuius ad arbitrium sphaera mobilis atque rotunda Volvatur, serventque suos vaga sidera cursus. Non recipit natura hominis, modo quadrupes ipse Non sit, et erecto spectet caelestia vultu, Non recipit, neget ut regimen pollere supremum. Istud et ipse Numae tacitus sibi sensit haruspex, Semifer et Scotus sentit, cane milite peior. Sed nos, qui Dominum libris et corpore iam bis.

Extrabiblical texts: Plato, Phaed. 118a (Plato (works); allusion)

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.181 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 181–210; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-181). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.211Lanfranchi 2:lines 211–240

Vidimus, ante fide, mox carne et sanguine coram, Quique voluminibus vatum, cruce teste, probatis, Rimantes digitos costarum in vulnera cruda Mersimus, et manuum visu dubitante lacunas Scrutati, aeternum regem cognovimus Iesum, Abiurare Deo titulum nomenque paternum Credimus esse nefas, qui regem protulit ex se : Non regem populi Parthorum, aut Romulidarum, Sed regem summae, et mediae rationis, et imae, Atque ideo rerum dominum, et super omnia regem. Carnis habet medium; summum Patris, et Stygis imum. Defluit his gradibus, rursusque revolvitur in se : Est Deus, est et homo : fit mortuus, et Deus idem est. Omnia percurrit naturae munia pronae, Ut sursum Patris in gremium replicata reportet Mortua quae fuerant, ipsos quoque subvehat artus. Haec fore quum veterum cecinissent organa vatum ; Nos oculis, manibus, congressu, voce, loquela Experti, heroum tandem intelleximus orsa Priscorum, et viso patefacta oracula Christo. Haec est nostra salus, hinc vivimus, hinc animamur: Hoc sequimur; numquam detracto nomine nati Appellare Patrem, Patris et sine nomine numquam Natum nosse Deum : numquam nisi Sanctus et unus Spiritus intersit, Natumque, Patremque vocare: Sic tamen haec constare tria, ut ne separe ductu Tres faciam : tribus his subsistat sed Deus unus. Nec Pater ipse autem qui Filius ; ut, quia Natum Scimus ab Innato, vere Pater, et sata vere Sit soboles : nec sic genitor sibi Filius ipse.

first by faith, then in flesh and blood face to face, and who, having tested the volumes of the prophets with the cross as witness, plunged our searching fingers into the raw wounds of the side, and, our sight doubting, searched the hollows of the hands, and recognized Jesus as the eternal king, we believe it a sin to strip God of the title and name of Father, who brought forth a king from himself: not a king of the people of the Parthians or of the sons of Romulus, but king of the highest, the middle and the lowest order, and therefore lord of things and king over all. He holds the middle as flesh; the highest as the Father’s; the lowest, of the Styx. He flowed down by these steps, and turns back again into himself: he is God, and he is man: he becomes dead, and the same is God. He ran through all the offices of fallen nature, so that, rolled back up, he might carry back into the Father’s bosom the things that had been dead, and carry up the very limbs as well. Though the instruments of the ancient prophets had sung that these things would be, we, having experienced him with eyes, hands, meeting, voice and speech, have at last understood the words of the ancient heroes, and the oracles laid open when Christ was seen. This is our salvation, by this we live, by this we are animated; this we follow: never, taking away the name of the Son, to call on the Father, and never without the name of the Father to know the Son as God; never to call on the Son and the Father unless the one Holy Spirit is present: yet so that these three stand together, that I do not make three by separate drawing-out, but one God subsists in these three. Yet the Father himself is not the one who is the Son; so that, since we know the Son is from the Unbegotten, he may be truly Father, and the begotten truly offspring: nor is the begetter thus his own Son.

John 20:27 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 John 1:1 (allusion, high confidence) · Phil 2:10 (allusion, medium confidence) · Matt 28:19 (echo, medium confidence)

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Summary: Christians, who have touched the wounds of the risen Jesus and seen the prophecies fulfilled, confess the Father who begot a king, Christ, God and man, who descended to death and rose to carry humanity to the Father; they confess Father, Son and Spirit, three yet one God, the Father not being the Son.

  • John 20:27; 1 John 1:1; Phil 2:10. Trinitarian language as written.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Vidimus, ante ficle, mox carne et sanguine coram, Quique voluminibus vatuin, cruce teste, probatis. Rimantes digitos costarum in vulnera cruda Mersimus, et manuum visu dubitante lacunas Scrutati, aeternum regem cognovimus lesum, Abiurare Deo titulum nomenque paternum Credimus esse nefas, cjui regem protulit ex se : Non regem populi Partliorum, aut Eomulidarum, Sed regem summae, et mediae rationis, et imae, Atque ideo rerum dominum, et super omnia regeiu. Carnis habet mediuni; summum Patris, et Stygis imum. Defluit liis gradibus, rursusque revolvitur in se : Est Deus, est ot homo : fit uiortuus. et Deus idem est. Omnia percurrit naturae munia pronae, Ut sursum Patris iu gremium replicata reportet Mortua qiiae ftierant, ipsos quoque subvehat artus. Haec fore quum veterum ceciuissent orgaiia vatuni ; Nos oculis, manil)us, con.i^ressu, voce, loquela Experti, heroum tandem intelleximus orsa Priscorum, et viso patefacta oracula Christo. Haec est uostra salus, liinc vivimus, hinc animamur: Hoc sequimur; numquam detracto nomine nati Adpellare Patrem, Patris et sine nomine numquam Natum nosse Deum : numquam nisi Sanctus et unus Spiritus intersit, Natumque, Patremquo vocare: Sic tameu liaec constare tria, ut ne separe ductu Tres faciam : tribus his subsistat sed Deus unus. Nec Pater ipse autem qui Filius ; ut, quia Natum Scimus ab Innato, vere Pater, et sata vere Sit soboh'S : iiec sic genitor sil)i Filius ipse. → Vidimus, ante fide, mox carne et sanguine coram, Quique voluminibus vatum, cruce teste, probatis, Rimantes digitos costarum in vulnera cruda Mersimus, et manuum visu dubitante lacunas Scrutati, aeternum regem cognovimus Iesum, Abiurare Deo titulum nomenque paternum Credimus esse nefas, qui regem protulit ex se : Non regem populi Parthorum, aut Romulidarum, Sed regem summae, et mediae rationis, et imae, Atque ideo rerum dominum, et super omnia regem. Carnis habet medium; summum Patris, et Stygis imum. Defluit his gradibus, rursusque revolvitur in se : Est Deus, est et homo : fit mortuus, et Deus idem est. Omnia percurrit naturae munia pronae, Ut sursum Patris in gremium replicata reportet Mortua quae fuerant, ipsos quoque subvehat artus. Haec fore quum veterum cecinissent organa vatum ; Nos oculis, manibus, congressu, voce, loquela Experti, heroum tandem intelleximus orsa Priscorum, et viso patefacta oracula Christo. Haec est nostra salus, hinc vivimus, hinc animamur: Hoc sequimur; numquam detracto nomine nati Appellare Patrem, Patris et sine nomine numquam Natum nosse Deum : numquam nisi Sanctus et unus Spiritus intersit, Natumque, Patremque vocare: Sic tamen haec constare tria, ut ne separe ductu Tres faciam : tribus his subsistat sed Deus unus. Nec Pater ipse autem qui Filius ; ut, quia Natum Scimus ab Innato, vere Pater, et sata vere Sit soboles : nec sic genitor sibi Filius ipse..

Topics: Trinity, Christology

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.211 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 211–240; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-211). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.241Lanfranchi 2:lines 241–270

Perquam ridiculum est et futile, natus ut ex se ; Sive Pater natus fuerit, sive ipse repente Nascendi nova materies, ac se Deus ultro Ediderit, natumque sibi se fecerit ipsum. Nil falsum aut mendax divina vocabula fingunt. Qui Pater est, gignendo Pater: tum Filius, ex hoc Filius, auctore quod genitus sit Patre summo: Summus et ipse tamen ; nec enim minor, aut Patre dispar. Unde in utroque operis forma indiscreta, nisi omnem Vim maiestatis Patriae generosus haberet Filius, idque Deus genitor, quod Filius, esset? Pergunt ulterius scrutantes, quid sit idipsum Gignere, si fas est humanos tendere sensus Usque ad secretum, quod tempora cuncta diesque Praevenit antiquos, et principium super ipsum Eminet, et, quodcumque potest homo quaerere, transit. Quum sit difficilis via noscere principiorum Semina, cui dabitur mortali exquirere, quidnam Ultra principium Deus egerit ? aut quo pacto Ediderit Verbum, quod principio caret omni ? Hoc solum scimus, quod traditur esse Deus, quem Non genitus genitor generaverit, unus et unum, Integer integrum: non coeptum, sed tamen ortum, Et conperpetuum retro Patri, et Patre natum. Sed nec decisus Pater est, ut pars Patris esset Filius, extendens nec se substantia tractim Produxit, minuitque aliquid de numine pleno ; Dum mutata novum procudit portio Natum. Non convertibilis, nec demutabilis umquam

It is utterly ridiculous and futile that one should be born from himself, whether the Father was born, or he himself suddenly became new matter for birth, and God of his own accord brought himself forth and made himself his own son. The divine names fashion nothing false or lying. He who is Father is Father by begetting; the Son is Son from this, that he was begotten with the supreme Father as author; yet he himself is supreme; for he is not less, nor unequal to the Father. How could the form of the work be indistinguishable in both, unless the noble Son had all the force of the Father’s majesty, and unless God the begetter were what the Son is? They go on further, searching what this very thing ‘to beget’ is, if it is right to stretch human senses as far as the secret which goes before all times and the ancient days, and stands out above the beginning itself, and passes beyond whatever man can seek. Since it is a difficult way to know the seeds of beginnings, to what mortal will it be given to search out what God did beyond the beginning? or in what manner he brought forth the Word, which lacks all beginning? This alone we know, which is handed down: that he is God, whom the unbegotten begetter begot, one begetting one, whole begetting whole: not begun, but yet arisen, co-eternal with the Father backward, and born of the Father. But neither is the Father cut off, so that the Son should be a part of the Father, nor did the substance, extending itself, draw itself out at length and diminish anything from the full Godhead, while a changed portion forged a new Son. Never convertible, never changeable

John 5:19 (echo, medium confidence) · John 10:30 (echo, medium confidence) · Isa 53:8 (echo, low confidence)

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Summary: The Father is not his own Son; the Son is begotten of the Father and equal to him, as shown by their identical works; the manner of the eternal generation is beyond human search, but it is known that the unbegotten Father begot the Son, whole of whole, co-eternal, without division or diminution.

  • Trinitarian language as written; John 5:19; 10:30; Isa 53:8.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Perquam ridicuhnn est et futile, natus ut ox se ; Sive Pater natus fuerit, sive ipse repente Nascendi nova materies, ac se Deus ultro PJdiderit, natumque sibi se fecerit ipsum. Xil falsum aut meudax divina vocabula fingunt. Qui Pater est, gignendo Pater: tum Filius, ex hoc Filius, auctore quod genitus sit Patre sunnno: Summus et ipse tamen ; nec enim minor, aut Patro (dispar. Unde in utroque operis forma indiscreta, nisi omnem Vim maiestatis Patriae generosus liaberet Filiiis, idque Deiis genitor, quod Filius, esset? Pergunt ulterius scrutantes, quid sit idipsnm Gignere, si fas est liumanos tendere seusus Usque ad secretum, quod tempora cuncta diesque Pi-aevenit antiquos, et principium super ipsum Eminet, et, quodcumque potest liomo quaerere, transit. Quum sit difficilis via, noscere principiorum Semina , cui dahitur mortali exquirere, quidnam Ultra principium Deus egerit ? aut quo pacto Ediderit Verbum, quod principio caret omni ? Hoc solum scimus, quod traditur esse Deus, quem Non genitus genitor generaverit, unus et unum, Integer integrum: non coeptum, sed tamen ortum, Et conperpetuum retro Patris, et Patre natum. Sed nec decisus Pater est, ut pars Patris esset Filius, extendens nec se substantia tractim Produxit, minuitquc aliquid de numine pleno ; Dum mutata novum procudit portio Natum. Non convertibilis, nec demutabilis umquam → Perquam ridiculum est et futile, natus ut ex se ; Sive Pater natus fuerit, sive ipse repente Nascendi nova materies, ac se Deus ultro Ediderit, natumque sibi se fecerit ipsum. Nil falsum aut mendax divina vocabula fingunt. Qui Pater est, gignendo Pater: tum Filius, ex hoc Filius, auctore quod genitus sit Patre summo: Summus et ipse tamen ; nec enim minor, aut Patre dispar. Unde in utroque operis forma indiscreta, nisi omnem Vim maiestatis Patriae generosus haberet Filius, idque Deus genitor, quod Filius, esset? Pergunt ulterius scrutantes, quid sit idipsum Gignere, si fas est humanos tendere sensus Usque ad secretum, quod tempora cuncta diesque Praevenit antiquos, et principium super ipsum Eminet, et, quodcumque potest homo quaerere, transit. Quum sit difficilis via noscere principiorum Semina, cui dabitur mortali exquirere, quidnam Ultra principium Deus egerit ? aut quo pacto Ediderit Verbum, quod principio caret omni ? Hoc solum scimus, quod traditur esse Deus, quem Non genitus genitor generaverit, unus et unum, Integer integrum: non coeptum, sed tamen ortum, Et conperpetuum retro Patri, et Patre natum. Sed nec decisus Pater est, ut pars Patris esset Filius, extendens nec se substantia tractim Produxit, minuitque aliquid de numine pleno ; Dum mutata novum procudit portio Natum. Non convertibilis, nec demutabilis umquam.

Topics: Trinity, Christology

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.241 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 241–270; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-241). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.271Lanfranchi 2:lines 271–300

Est Deus, aut gignendo aliquid sibi detrahit: atqui Totus, et ex toto Deus est, de lumine lumen. Quando autem lumen sine lumine ? quando refulgens Lux fulgore caret? quando est, ut proditus ignis Ignem deminuat? quando Pater et Deus et lux Non lucis Deus et Pater est? qui, si Pater olim Non fuit, et serum genuit post tempora natum, Fit novus, inque novum ius proficit. Absit, ut umquam Plenus proficiat, qui non eget incremento. Et Deus, et genitor, lumenque, et gloria semper Ille fuit; nec post sibi contulit, ut Pater esset. Sic fit, ut aeternum credamus cum Patre Christum, Illo auctore satum, cui nullus praefuit auctor. Haec tu si dubitas nati mysteria Christi, Perdite, catholica non es de plebe, sed unus De grege turifero venerator, Deucalionum Devotus cippo, ficulni et stipitis unctor. Quin potius scrutare Dei signacula in ipso Fonte vetustatis, percurre scrinia primi Scriptoris : quem non Sardus pater, aut avus augur, Fabula nec veteris famae, nec garrula nutrix, Nec sagae clangore loquax et stridula cornix Rem docuere Dei : sed coram proditus ipse, Ipse Deus trepidum mortalem mitis amico Imbuit adloquio, seque ac sua summa retexit. Nimirum meminit Scriptor doctissimus, illo Orbis principio non solum, nec sine Christo Informasse Patrem facturae plasma novellae. Fecit, ait, condens hominem Deus, et dedit illi Ora Dei. Quidnam est aliud, quam dicere, solus

is God, nor does he take anything from himself by begetting; but he is whole God, and God from the whole, light from light. But when is light without light? When does shining light lack brightness? When does it happen that fire brought forth diminishes fire? When is the Father, both God and light, not God and Father of light? If he was once not Father, and begot a son late, after times, he becomes new, and advances into a new right. Far be it that ever the Full should advance, who needs no increase. He was always God, and begetter, and light, and glory; nor did he afterwards confer on himself that he should be Father. So it comes about that we believe Christ eternal with the Father, begotten with him as author, whom no author preceded. If you doubt these mysteries of Christ’s birth, lost man, you are not of the catholic people, but one of the incense-bearing herd, a worshiper of Deucalions, devoted to a post, an anointer of a fig-wood stump. Rather search the tokens of God in the very fountain of antiquity; run through the book-cases of the first writer, whom no Sardinian father, nor augur grandfather, nor the tale of ancient rumor, nor a garrulous nurse, nor the shrill crow, talkative with the cry of a witch, taught the matter of God: but God himself, revealed face to face, gently instructed the trembling mortal with friendly address, and unveiled himself and his highest things. Of course that most learned Writer records that at the beginning of the world the Father fashioned the form of his new creation not alone, nor without Christ. “God made man,” he says, “establishing him, and gave him the face of God.” What else is this but to say: he was not

Gen 1:26 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 1:27 (quotation, medium confidence) · Exod 33:11 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: God loses nothing by begetting, but is light from light; the Father was always Father, and Christ is co-eternal with him; whoever doubts this is no catholic; Moses, taught by God himself, shows that the Father created man together with Christ.

  • Gen 1:26–27; Exod 33:11. ‘Light from light’ as in the creed.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Est Deus, aut gignendo aliquid sibi detrabit: atqui Totus, et ex toto Deus est, de lumine lumen. Quando autem lumen sine lumine ? quando refulgens Lux fulgore caret? quando est, ut proditus ignis Ignem deminuat? qnando Pater et Deus et lux, -Non lucis Deus, ct Pater est? qui, si Pater olim Non fuit, et serum genuit post tempora natum, Fit novus, inque novum ius proficit. Absit, ut umquam Plenus proficiat, qui non eget incremento. Et Dens, et genitor, lumenque, ot gloria semper IUe fuit; nec post sil)i contulit, ut Pator esset. Sic fit, ut aeternum credamus cum Patro Cliristum, Illo auctore satum, cui nullus praofuit auctor. Haoc tu (Ij si dubitas nati mvstoria Cliristi, Perdite, catholica non es de plebo, sed unus De grege turifero venerator, Deucalionum Devotus cippo, ficulni et stijiitis unctor. Quin potius scrutare Dei signacula in ipso Fonte vetustatis, percurro scrinia primi Scriptoris (i) : quem non Bardus pator, aut avus auj^air, Fabula noc voteris famae, nec garrula nutrix, Nec sago clangore loquax et stndula coriiix Eem clocuere Dei : sed coram proditus ipse, Ipse Deus trepidum mortalem mitis amico Inbuit adloquio, seque ac sua summa retexit. Nimirum meminit Scriptor doctissimus, illo Orbis principio non solum, nec sine Christo Informasse Patrem facturae plasma novellae. Fecit,ait, condenshominem Deus, et dedit olli Ora Dei. Quidnam est aliud, quam dicere, solus → Est Deus, aut gignendo aliquid sibi detrahit: atqui Totus, et ex toto Deus est, de lumine lumen. Quando autem lumen sine lumine ? quando refulgens Lux fulgore caret? quando est, ut proditus ignis Ignem deminuat? quando Pater et Deus et lux Non lucis Deus et Pater est? qui, si Pater olim Non fuit, et serum genuit post tempora natum, Fit novus, inque novum ius proficit. Absit, ut umquam Plenus proficiat, qui non eget incremento. Et Deus, et genitor, lumenque, et gloria semper Ille fuit; nec post sibi contulit, ut Pater esset. Sic fit, ut aeternum credamus cum Patre Christum, Illo auctore satum, cui nullus praefuit auctor. Haec tu si dubitas nati mysteria Christi, Perdite, catholica non es de plebe, sed unus De grege turifero venerator, Deucalionum Devotus cippo, ficulni et stipitis unctor. Quin potius scrutare Dei signacula in ipso Fonte vetustatis, percurre scrinia primi Scriptoris : quem non Sardus pater, aut avus augur, Fabula nec veteris famae, nec garrula nutrix, Nec sagae clangore loquax et stridula cornix Rem docuere Dei : sed coram proditus ipse, Ipse Deus trepidum mortalem mitis amico Imbuit adloquio, seque ac sua summa retexit. Nimirum meminit Scriptor doctissimus, illo Orbis principio non solum, nec sine Christo Informasse Patrem facturae plasma novellae. Fecit, ait, condens hominem Deus, et dedit illi Ora Dei. Quidnam est aliud, quam dicere, solus.

Topics: Trinity, Christology

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.271 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 271–300; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-271). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.301Lanfranchi 2:lines 301–330

Non erat? atque Deo Deus adsistebat agenti, Quum Dominus faceret Domini sub imagine plasma? Christus forma Patris, nos Christi forma et imago, Condimur in faciem Domini bonitate paterna, Venturo in nostram faciem post saecula Christo. Possum multa sacris exempla excerpere libris, Ni refugis, quae te doceant, non in Patre solo Vim maiestatis positam, sed cum Patre Christum Esse Deum; velut illud ait Genealogus idem: A Domino Dominus flammam pluit in Sodomitas. Quis Dominus? de quo Domino? si solus ab arce Siderea spectat Pater, aut ardescit in iras? Filius armatam Domini Patris ignibus iram Spargebat Dominus : sunt unum fulmen utrique. Haec si Iudaicos sic intellecta rigassent Auditus, stupidas ut possint tangere fibras, Audissent Dominum virtutum, qui pereuntes Venerat ut servaret oves : sed ab auribus omnis Fluxerat ornatus, caput et iam coctile Baal Finxerat, auriculasque suo spoliarat honore. Dux populi peccantis adest de monte corusci Luminis, adloquioque Dei, tabulasque tremendo Incisas digito caeca ad tentoria defert. Sed cadit in faciem plebs, non visura profundae Legis in effigie scriptum per aenigmata Christum. Infelix, quae luce oculos praestricta paventes Texerit, et presso faciem velarit amictu! At nos reiecto Christum velamine coram Cernimus, atque Deum vultu speculamur aperto ; Nec, sub lege gravi, depressa fronte iacemus,

alone? And God stood by God as he worked, when the Lord made a creature in the image of the Lord? Christ is the form of the Father; we, the form and image of Christ, are made in the face of the Lord by fatherly goodness, as Christ was to come into our face after ages. I could pick many examples from the sacred books, if you do not shrink from them, to teach you that the force of majesty is not placed in the Father alone, but that Christ with the Father is God; as that same Genealogist says: “The Lord rained fire from the Lord on the Sodomites.” Which Lord? From which Lord? If the Father alone watches from the starry citadel, or grows hot with anger? The Son, the Lord, was scattering the wrath of the Lord the Father, armed with fires: there is one thunderbolt for both. If these things, so understood, had watered the Jewish ears so as to be able to touch their dull fibres, they would have heard the Lord of powers, who had come to save the perishing sheep: but every ornament had flowed from their ears, and they had already fashioned the molten head of Baal, and stripped their little ears of their honor. The leader of the sinning people comes down from the mountain of flashing light and the speech of God, and brings to the blind tents the tablets cut by the dreadful finger. But the people falls on its face, not to see Christ written in riddles in the likeness of the deep law. Unhappy people, which, its fearful eyes dazzled by the light, covered them, and veiled its face with pressed-down cloth! But we, the veil thrown off, see Christ face to face, and gaze at God with unveiled face; nor, under the heavy law, do we lie with bowed brow,

Gen 1:26 (allusion, medium confidence) · Col 1:15 (allusion, medium confidence) · Gen 19:24 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 15:24 (allusion, medium confidence) · Exod 32:2 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 32:15 (allusion, medium confidence) · 2 Cor 3:13 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Cor 3:18 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: In creation God worked with God, for man was made in the image of Christ, the Father’s image; ‘the Lord rained fire from the Lord’ on Sodom shows the Son acting with the Father; Israel, having made the golden calf, could not see Christ veiled in the Law, but Christians see him with unveiled face.

  • Gen 19:24; Col 1:15; Matt 15:24; Exod 32:2–4; 34:29–35; 2 Cor 3:13–18. The golden calf is called Baal by the poet; the comment on the Jewish people is translated as written.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Non erat? atque Deo Deus adsistebat agenti, Quum Dominus faceret Domini sub imagine plasina? ('hristus forma Patris, nos Christi forma et imago Condimur in faciem Domini bonitate paterna, Venturo in nostram faciem post saecula Christo. Possum multa sacris exempla excerpere libris, Ni refugis, quae te doceant, non in Patre solo Vim maiestatis positam, sed cum Patre Christum Esse Deum; velut illud ait Genealogus idem: A Domino Dominus flammam pluit in Sodomitas. Quis Dominus? de quo Domino? si solus ab arce Siderea spectat Pater, aut ardescit in iras? Filius armatam Domini Patris ignibus iram Spargebat Dominus : sunt unum fulmen utraque. Haec si ludaicos sic intellecta rigassent .Vnditus, stupidas ut possint tangere fibras, Audissent Doniinum virtutum, qui pereuntes ypnerat ut servaret oves : sed ab auribus omnis Fluxi-rat oniatus, caput et iam coctile Biial Finxerat. auriculasque suo sjioliarat honore. Dux popiili peccantis adest cle monte corusci Luminis, adloquioque Dei, tabulasque tremendo Incisas digito caeca ad tentoria defert. ISedcaditinfaciemplebs (l),non visura profundae o30 )Legis in effigie scriptum per enigmata Cbristum. Infelix, quae luce oculos praestiicta paventes Texerit, et presso faciem velarit amictu? At nos reiecto Christum velamine coram Cernimus, atqueDeumvultuspeculamur aperto ; ^sTec, sub lege gravi, depressa fronte iacemus, → Non erat? atque Deo Deus adsistebat agenti, Quum Dominus faceret Domini sub imagine plasma? Christus forma Patris, nos Christi forma et imago, Condimur in faciem Domini bonitate paterna, Venturo in nostram faciem post saecula Christo. Possum multa sacris exempla excerpere libris, Ni refugis, quae te doceant, non in Patre solo Vim maiestatis positam, sed cum Patre Christum Esse Deum; velut illud ait Genealogus idem: A Domino Dominus flammam pluit in Sodomitas. Quis Dominus? de quo Domino? si solus ab arce Siderea spectat Pater, aut ardescit in iras? Filius armatam Domini Patris ignibus iram Spargebat Dominus : sunt unum fulmen utrique. Haec si Iudaicos sic intellecta rigassent Auditus, stupidas ut possint tangere fibras, Audissent Dominum virtutum, qui pereuntes Venerat ut servaret oves : sed ab auribus omnis Fluxerat ornatus, caput et iam coctile Baal Finxerat, auriculasque suo spoliarat honore. Dux populi peccantis adest de monte corusci Luminis, adloquioque Dei, tabulasque tremendo Incisas digito caeca ad tentoria defert. Sed cadit in faciem plebs, non visura profundae Legis in effigie scriptum per aenigmata Christum. Infelix, quae luce oculos praestricta paventes Texerit, et presso faciem velarit amictu! At nos reiecto Christum velamine coram Cernimus, atque Deum vultu speculamur aperto ; Nec, sub lege gravi, depressa fronte iacemus,.

Topics: Christology, Trinity

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.301 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 301–330; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-301). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.331Lanfranchi 2:lines 331–360

Sed legis radium sublimi agnoscimus ore. Heu, frondosa prius ramis felicibus arbor! Pinguibus, heu, quondam radix oleagina bacis! Ecce tibi inserto revirescit nunc oleastro Truncus, et externi vestitur cortice libri. Iam miserere tui. Non se silvestris olivi Surculus, exsultans alieno stipite, iactat: Sed monet, ut generis proprii memor, unguine amaro Contristare comas desuescas, stirpe nec imo Invideas missis in celsa cacumina virgis. Blasphemas Dominum, gens ingratissima, Christum. Pascha tuum dic, dic cuius de sanguine festum Tam solemne tibi est? quis tandem caeditur Agnus Anniculus? sacer ille tibi redeuntibus annis; Sed sacer in pecude. Stultum est sic credere sacrum; Sanguine balantis summos contingere postes, Lascivire choris, similaginis azymon esse, Quum fermentati turgescant crimine mores. Non sapis, imprudens, nostrum te effingere Pascha? Legis et antiquae praeductis pingere sulcis Omne sacramentum, retinet quod passio vera ; Passio, quae nostram defendit sanguine frontem, Corporeamque domum signato conlinit ore? Hanc fugit exclusis Aegyptia plaga flagellis : Haec regis Pharii regnum ferale resolvit ; Deque potestatis mundanae grandine densa Eripit Abraham cum stirpe et gente fideli. Abrahae genus est verum, cui sanguis in ore Creditus, inscriptusque rubet: cui visus in orbe,

but we recognize the ray of the law with uplifted face. Alas, tree once leafy with fruitful branches! Alas, olive root once rich in berries! See, now your trunk grows green again with a wild olive grafted in, and is clothed with the bark of foreign rind. Now have pity on yourself. The shoot of the wild olive, exulting on a stock not its own, does not boast, but warns you, mindful of your own race, to give up saddening your foliage with bitter oil, and not from the lowest stock to envy the twigs sent up to the lofty tops. You blaspheme the Lord Christ, most ungrateful nation. Say, say: of whose blood is your Passover a feast so solemn for you? Who in the end is the yearling Lamb that is slain? He is sacred to you as the years return; but sacred in a beast. It is foolish to believe it sacred thus: to touch the tops of the doorposts with the blood of a bleater, to frolic in dances, to eat unleavened bread of fine flour, while your morals swell with the crime of leaven. Do you not understand, foolish one, that you are portraying our Passover, and painting in the furrows drawn beforehand by the ancient law the whole sacrament which the true passion holds: the passion which defends our brow with blood, and smears the bodily house with a signed face? From it the Egyptian plague fled, its scourges shut out; it broke up the deadly kingdom of the king of Pharos; and from the thick hail of worldly power it snatches Abraham with his stock and faithful race. The true race of Abraham is he on whose face the blood is entrusted and glows red-written: by whom he who was seen in the world

Rom 11:17 (allusion, high confidence) · Rom 11:18 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 12:5 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 12:7 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Cor 5:7 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Cor 5:8 (allusion, medium confidence) · Gal 3:7 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Israel, the olive tree into which the Gentiles have been grafted, is urged not to envy; its Passover lamb and unleavened bread portray the Christian Passover, the true passion of Christ, whose blood marks believers and frees the true children of Abraham.

  • Rom 11:17–24; Exod 12; 1 Cor 5:7–8; Gal 3:7. The address to the Jewish people is translated as written.
  • Latin "ore": the face or forehead, marked with the sign (of the cross), not the mouth.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Sed legis radium sublimi agnoscimus ore. Heu, frondosa prius ramis felicibus arbor! Pinguibus, lieu, quondam radix oleagina bacois ! Ecce tibi inserto revirescit nunc oleastro Truncus, et externi vestitur cortice libri. lam miserere tui. ISTon se silvestris olivi Surculus, exultans alieno stipite, iactat: Sed monet, ut geiieris proprii memor, unguiiie amaro Contristare comas desuescas, stirpe nec imo Invideas missis in celsa cacumina virgis. l^lasphemas Domiimm gens iiigratissima Christum. Fascha tuum dic, dic cuius de sangiiine festum Tam solemne tibi est? quis tandem caeditur Agnus Anniculus? sacer ille tibi redeuntibus annis; Sed sacer in pecude. Stdtum est sic credere sacrum; Sanguine balantis suinmos contingere postes, Lascivire choris, similaginis azymon esse, e->- t, Quum fermentati tm'gescant crimine mores. Xon sapis , imprudeus, nostrum t<' effingere Pascha?355 Legis et antiquae praeductis pingere sulcis Omne sacramentum, retinet quod passio vera ; Passio, quae nostram defendit sanguine frontem, Corporeamque domum signato conlinit ore? Hanc fugit exclusis Aegyptia plaga flagellis : Haec regis Pharii regnum ferale resolvit ; Deque potestatis mundanae grandine densa A. Prvdemtu Opera Eripit Abraham cum stirpe et gente fideli. Abrahae genus est verum, cui sanguis in ore Creditus, inscriptusque rubet: cui visus in orbe, → Sed legis radium sublimi agnoscimus ore. Heu, frondosa prius ramis felicibus arbor! Pinguibus, heu, quondam radix oleagina bacis! Ecce tibi inserto revirescit nunc oleastro Truncus, et externi vestitur cortice libri. Iam miserere tui. Non se silvestris olivi Surculus, exsultans alieno stipite, iactat: Sed monet, ut generis proprii memor, unguine amaro Contristare comas desuescas, stirpe nec imo Invideas missis in celsa cacumina virgis. Blasphemas Dominum, gens ingratissima, Christum. Pascha tuum dic, dic cuius de sanguine festum Tam solemne tibi est? quis tandem caeditur Agnus Anniculus? sacer ille tibi redeuntibus annis; Sed sacer in pecude. Stultum est sic credere sacrum; Sanguine balantis summos contingere postes, Lascivire choris, similaginis azymon esse, Quum fermentati turgescant crimine mores. Non sapis, imprudens, nostrum te effingere Pascha? Legis et antiquae praeductis pingere sulcis Omne sacramentum, retinet quod passio vera ; Passio, quae nostram defendit sanguine frontem, Corporeamque domum signato conlinit ore? Hanc fugit exclusis Aegyptia plaga flagellis : Haec regis Pharii regnum ferale resolvit ; Deque potestatis mundanae grandine densa Eripit Abraham cum stirpe et gente fideli. Abrahae genus est verum, cui sanguis in ore Creditus, inscriptusque rubet: cui visus in orbe,.

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.331 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 331–360; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-331). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.361Lanfranchi 2:lines 361–390

Haud dubitante fide, Deus est, Deus ex Patre verus. Ille Deum vidit, visum mox credidit : at tu, Posteritas carnis, carnaliter omnia cernens, Carnis opus sub lege geris, quam spiritus implet Interior: nec enim caelo lex carnea fluxit, Quam tu carne colis : sed Christo feta, meamque Spem paritura utero. Quam spem ! nisi numinis almum Lumen, et adventum Domini, quem viderat Abrae Prima fides, nostrisque pater promiserat olim Perspiciendum oculis, et legis voce probandum. Nec solum legis: nam quae iam littera Christum Non habet? aut quae non scriptorum armaria Christi Laude referta, novis celebrant miracula libris? Hebraeus pangit stilus, Attica copia pangit, Pangit et Ausoniae facundia tertia linguae. Digere versiculis, quae sit suffixa potestas Fronte Crucis: titulus sit triplice lingua : Agnoscat Iudaea legens, et Graecia norit, Et venerata Deum percenseat aurea Roma. Quidquid in aere cavo reboans tuba curva remugit, Quidquid ab arcano vomit ingens spiritus haustu, Quidquid casta chelys, quidquid testudo resultat, Organa disparibus calamis quod consona miscent, Aemula pastorum quod reddunt vocibus antra, Christum concelebrat, Christum sonat, omnia Christum Muta etiam fidibus sanctis animata loquuntur. O nomen praedulce mihi! lux, et decus, et spes, Praesidiumque meum ! requies o certa laborum ! Blandus in ore sapor, fragrans odor, inriguus fons,

with faith not doubting, is God, true God from the Father. He saw God, and soon believed in the one he saw: but you, posterity of the flesh, seeing all things carnally, carry out under the law the work of the flesh, which an inner spirit fills: for the fleshly law which you keep in the flesh did not flow from heaven: but it was pregnant with Christ, and about to bear my hope from its womb. What hope? none other than the kindly light of the divine power, and the coming of the Lord, whom Abraham’s first faith had seen, and whom the father had once promised to be seen by our eyes, and to be proved by the voice of the law. Nor by the voice of the law alone: for what writing now does not have Christ? or what bookcases of writers, filled with the praise of Christ, do not celebrate his miracles in new books? The Hebrew pen sings of him, Attic abundance sings, and the third eloquence, of the Ausonian tongue, sings too. [Pilate commands:] Set out in verses what power was fixed on the front of the Cross: let the title be in a threefold tongue: let Judea recognize it as she reads, and Greece know it, and golden Rome, worshiping God, survey it. Whatever the curved trumpet bellows, booming in hollow bronze, whatever the huge breath vomits from a hidden draught, whatever the chaste lyre, whatever the tortoise-shell echoes, what the harmonious organs mingle with unequal pipes, what the caves give back in rivalry with the voices of shepherds, celebrates Christ, sounds Christ; all things, even mute, animated by holy strings, speak Christ. O name most sweet to me! light, glory and hope, and my protection! O sure rest from labors! sweet taste in the mouth, fragrant smell, watering fountain,

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

John 8:56 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 15:6 (echo, medium confidence) · Luke 24:44 (echo, medium confidence) · John 19:20 (allusion, high confidence) · Ps 150:3 (echo, low confidence)

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Summary: Abraham saw and believed in Christ, true God, whom the Law, pregnant with Christ, promised; the carnal observance of the Law misses him; every language, as on the title of the Cross, and all music proclaim Christ, whose name is the poet’s delight.

  • John 8:56; Gen 15:6; Luke 24:44; John 19:19–20. A cross-reference note was removed.
  • A line is lost here in the scan of Lanfranchi's text; in the standard text it names Pilate, so the command "Set out in verses" is his (the title on the cross), not the poet's.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Haud dubitante fide, Deus est, Deus ex Patre verus. Ille Deum vidit, visum mox credidit : at tu, Posteritas carnis, carnaliter omnia cerneus, Carnis opus sublege geris, quam spiritus implet Interior: nec enim caelo lex carnea fluxit, Quam tu carne colis : sed Christo feta, meamque Spem paritura utero. Quam spem ! nisi numinis almum Lumen, et adventum Domini, quem viderat Abrae Prima fides, nostrisque pater promiserat olim Perspiciendum oculis , et legis voce probandum. Nec solum legis: nam quae iam littera Christum Non liabetj aut quae non scriptorum armaria Christi Laude referta, novis celebrant miracula libris? jjHebraeus pangit stilus, Attica copia pangit, jiPangit et Ausoniae facundia tertia linguae. Digere versiculis, quae sit sufiixa potestas. Vm, 15; et ad Kom. IX. Fronte Crucis: titulus sit triplice lingua (1)| Agnoscat ludaea legens, et Graecia nOrit, ' Et venerata Deum percenseat aurea Eoma. Quidquid in aere cavo reboans tuba curva reraugit, (^iiidquid ab arcano vomit ingens spiritus haustu, Quidquid casta chelys, quidquid testudo resultat, -Organa disparibus calamis quod consona misccnt, Ai-mula pastorum quod reddunt vocibus antra, (.'lu-istum concelebrat, Chi"istum sonat, omnia Christum ]\Iuta etiam fidibus sanctis animata loquuntur. O nomen praedulce mihi! lux, et decus, et spes, Praesidiumque meum ! requies o certa laborum ! Blandus in ore sapor^^^flagi-ans odor, inriguus fons, → Haud dubitante fide, Deus est, Deus ex Patre verus. Ille Deum vidit, visum mox credidit : at tu, Posteritas carnis, carnaliter omnia cernens, Carnis opus sub lege geris, quam spiritus implet Interior: nec enim caelo lex carnea fluxit, Quam tu carne colis : sed Christo feta, meamque Spem paritura utero. Quam spem ! nisi numinis almum Lumen, et adventum Domini, quem viderat Abrae Prima fides, nostrisque pater promiserat olim Perspiciendum oculis, et legis voce probandum. Nec solum legis: nam quae iam littera Christum Non habet? aut quae non scriptorum armaria Christi Laude referta, novis celebrant miracula libris? Hebraeus pangit stilus, Attica copia pangit, Pangit et Ausoniae facundia tertia linguae. Digere versiculis, quae sit suffixa potestas Fronte Crucis: titulus sit triplice lingua : Agnoscat Iudaea legens, et Graecia norit, Et venerata Deum percenseat aurea Roma. Quidquid in aere cavo reboans tuba curva remugit, Quidquid ab arcano vomit ingens spiritus haustu, Quidquid casta chelys, quidquid testudo resultat, Organa disparibus calamis quod consona miscent, Aemula pastorum quod reddunt vocibus antra, Christum concelebrat, Christum sonat, omnia Christum Muta etiam fidibus sanctis animata loquuntur. O nomen praedulce mihi! lux, et decus, et spes, Praesidiumque meum ! requies o certa laborum ! Blandus in ore sapor, fragrans odor, inriguus fons,.

Topics: Christology, Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.361 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 361–390; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-361). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.391Lanfranchi 2:lines 391–420

Castus amor, pulchra species, sincera voluptas. Si gens surda negat sibi tot praeconia de te, Tam multas rerum voces, elementaque tantae Nuntia laetitiae, stolidas intrare per aures; Audiat insanum bacchantis energima monstri, Quod rabidus clamat capta intra viscera daemon, Et credat miseranda suis. Torquetur Apollo Nomine percussus Christi, nec fulmina verbi Ferre potest ; agitant miserum tot verbera linguae, Quot laudata Dei resonant miracula Christi. Intonat antistes Domini: Fuge, callide serpens, Exue te membris, et spiras solve latentes. Mancipium Christi, fur corruptissime, vexas? Desine : Christus adest, humani corporis ultor : Non licet, ut spolium rapias, cui Christus inhaesit. Pulsus abi, ventose liquor; Christus iubet, exi. Has inter voces medias Cyllenius ardens Eiulat, et notos suspirat Iuppiter ignes. Ecce Gerasenos legio ruit effera porcos, Et post multiplices busti sub rupe catenas, Poenarum gemitus longis grunnitibus edit. Clamarat, sed ab ore hominis: Cognoscimus, Iesu, Nate Deo, nate sceptris et germine David, Qui sis, quid venias : qua nos virtute repellas Novimus, adventusque tui terrore iacemus. Haec, Iudaea, tuas vox non pervenit ad aures? Pervenit: mentem sed non penetravit egenam Lucis, et a primis foribus disclusa refugit. Audiit adventum Domini, quem solis Hiberi Vesper habet, roseos et qui novus excipit ortus,

chaste love, beautiful form, sincere pleasure. If the deaf nation denies that so many proclamations of you, so many voices of things, and elements, messengers of so great a joy, enter through its dull ears, let it hear the mad possession of the raving monster, which the rabid demon shouts within the captured bowels, and let the wretched nation believe its own. Apollo is tortured, struck by the name of Christ, and cannot bear the thunderbolts of the word; as many lashes of the tongue harass the wretch as the praised miracles of Christ God resound. The bishop of the Lord thunders: “Flee, cunning serpent, strip yourself out of the limbs, and loosen your hidden coils. Do you harass a slave of Christ, most corrupt thief? Stop: Christ is here, avenger of the human body: you may not snatch as spoil one to whom Christ has clung. Go, driven out, windy liquid; Christ commands, come out.” Amid these words Cyllenius, burning, wails, and Jupiter sighs at fires he knows. See, the savage legion rushes into the Gerasene pigs, and after many chains under the rock of the tomb, utters groans of punishment with long grunts. It had cried out, but from the mouth of a man: “We know, Jesus, born of God, born of the sceptres and seed of David, who you are, why you come: we know by what power you drive us back, and we lie prostrate in terror of your coming.” Has this voice not reached your ears, Judea? It has reached them: but it has not penetrated a mind lacking light, and, shut out from the first doors, it has fled back. The coming of the Lord has been heard by the land that the evening of the Spanish sun holds, and by the land that first receives the rosy dawn;

Mark 5:7 (allusion, high confidence) · Mark 5:13 (allusion, high confidence) · Luke 8:28 (allusion, medium confidence) · Mark 1:24 (echo, medium confidence)

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Summary: If the Jews will not hear the praise of Christ, let them hear the demons, who in exorcisms confess his name and are driven out, as the legion confessed him in the Gerasene demoniac; Judea heard but did not understand, while the whole world received the gospel.

  • Mark 5:1–13; Luke 8:28. Cyllenius is Mercury. The address to Judea is translated as written.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Castus amor, pulchra species, sincera voluptas. Si gens surda negat sibi tot praeconia de te, Tam multas rerum voces, elementaque tantae Xuntia laetitiae, stolidas intrare per aures; Audiat insanum bacchantis cnergima moustri, Quod rabidus clamat capta ijitor viscera daemon. Et credat miseranda suis. Torqnetnr Apollo Nomine percussns Christi, nec ftilmina verbi Ferre potest ; agitant miserum tot verbera linguae , Quot laudata Dei resonant miracula Christi. Intonat antistes Domini: Fuge, callide serpens, Exue te membris, et spiras solve latentes. Mancipium Christi, fur corruptissime, vexas? Desine : Cln-istus adest, humani corporis ultor : Non licet, ut spolium rapias, cui Christus inhaesit. Pulsus abi, ventose liquor; Christus iubet, exi. Has inter voces medias Cyllenius ardens Eiulat, et notos suspirat luppiter ignes. Ecce Gerasenos legio ruit effera porcos, Et post multiplices busti sub rupe catenas, Poenarum gemitus longis grunnitibus edit. Clamarat, sed ab ore hominis: cognoscimus, lesu, Nate Deo, nate sceptris et germine David, Qui sis, quid venias : qua nos virtute repellas Novimus, adventusque tui terrore iacemus. Haec, ludaea, tuas vox non pervenit ad aures? Pervenit: mentem sed non penetravit egenam Lucis, et a primis foribus disclusa refugit. Audiit adventum Domini, quem solis Hiberi Vesper habet, roseos et qui novus excipit ortus, → Castus amor, pulchra species, sincera voluptas. Si gens surda negat sibi tot praeconia de te, Tam multas rerum voces, elementaque tantae Nuntia laetitiae, stolidas intrare per aures; Audiat insanum bacchantis energima monstri, Quod rabidus clamat capta intra viscera daemon, Et credat miseranda suis. Torquetur Apollo Nomine percussus Christi, nec fulmina verbi Ferre potest ; agitant miserum tot verbera linguae, Quot laudata Dei resonant miracula Christi. Intonat antistes Domini: Fuge, callide serpens, Exue te membris, et spiras solve latentes. Mancipium Christi, fur corruptissime, vexas? Desine : Christus adest, humani corporis ultor : Non licet, ut spolium rapias, cui Christus inhaesit. Pulsus abi, ventose liquor; Christus iubet, exi. Has inter voces medias Cyllenius ardens Eiulat, et notos suspirat Iuppiter ignes. Ecce Gerasenos legio ruit effera porcos, Et post multiplices busti sub rupe catenas, Poenarum gemitus longis grunnitibus edit. Clamarat, sed ab ore hominis: Cognoscimus, Iesu, Nate Deo, nate sceptris et germine David, Qui sis, quid venias : qua nos virtute repellas Novimus, adventusque tui terrore iacemus. Haec, Iudaea, tuas vox non pervenit ad aures? Pervenit: mentem sed non penetravit egenam Lucis, et a primis foribus disclusa refugit. Audiit adventum Domini, quem solis Hiberi Vesper habet, roseos et qui novus excipit ortus,.

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.391 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 391–420; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-391). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.421Lanfranchi 2:lines 421–450

Laxavit Scythicas verbo penetrante pruinas Vox Evangelica, Hyrcanas quoque fervida brumas Solvit, ut exutus glacie iam mollior amnis Caucasea de cote fluat Rhodopeius Hebrus. Mansuevere Getae, feritasque cruenta Geloni Lacte mero sitiens exsanguia pocula miscet, Libatura sacros Christi de sanguine potus. Novit et Atlantis pridem plaga perfida Mauri, Dedere crinitos ad Christi altaria reges. Ex quo mortalem praestrinxit Spiritus alvum, Spiritus ille Deus ; Deus et se corpore matris Induit, atque hominem de virginitate creavit; Delphica damnatis tacuerunt sortibus antra, Non tripodas cortina tegit, non spumat anhelus Fata Sibyllinis fanaticus edita libris. Perdidit insanos mendax Dodona vapores, Mortua iam mutae lugent oracula Cumae, Nec responsa refert Libycis in Syrtibus Hammon. Ipsa suis Christum Capitolia Romula moerent Principibus lucere Deum, destructaque templa Imperio cecidisse ducum. Iam purpura supplex Sternitur Aeneadae rectoris ad atria Christi, Vexillumque Crucis summus dominator adorat. Principibus tamen e cunctis non defuit unus, Me puero, ut memini, ductor fortissimus armis, Conditor et legum, celeberrimus ore manuque, Consultor patriae, sed non consultor habendae Religionis, amans tercentum millia divum : Perfidus ille Deo, quamvis non perfidus orbi. Augustum caput ante pedes curvare Minervae

the voice of the Gospel loosened the Scythian frosts with its penetrating word, and, fervent, melted the Hyrcanian winters too, so that the Rhodopean Hebrus, now freed of ice, flows a softer river from its Caucasian rock. The Getae have grown gentle, and the bloody savagery of the Gelonian, thirsting for pure milk, mixes bloodless cups, to drink the holy draughts of the blood of Christ. The once faithless land of the Moor of Atlas too has learned to surrender long-haired kings to the altars of Christ. Since the Spirit touched a mortal womb, that Spirit who is God, and God clothed himself with his mother’s body and created man from virginity, the Delphic caves have fallen silent, their oracles condemned; the cauldron no longer covers the tripods, nor does the panting fanatic foam out fates published in Sibylline books. Lying Dodona has lost its mad vapors, Cumae, now mute, mourns its dead oracles, nor does Hammon give back answers in the Libyan Syrtes. The very Capitol of Romulus mourns that Christ shines as God for its princes, and that the temples have fallen, destroyed by the command of the emperors. Now the purple, suppliant, lies prostrate at the halls of Christ, ruler of Aeneas’ people, and the supreme lord adores the standard of the Cross. Yet among all the emperors there was one, when I was a boy, as I remember, a leader very brave in arms, a founder of laws, most famous for speech and hand, a counselor of his country, but no counselor for keeping religion, loving three hundred thousand gods: faithless to God, though not faithless to the world. He did not shrink from bending his august head before the feet of Minerva

Luke 1:35 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: The gospel has reached and tamed the barbarian peoples to the ends of the earth; since the incarnation the pagan oracles have fallen silent and the emperors adore the Cross; but in the poet’s boyhood one able emperor remained devoted to the gods.

  • The emperor is Julian (361–363). Delphi, Dodona, Cumae and Ammon are classical oracles.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Laxavit Scythicas verbo penetrante pruinas Vox Evangelica, HjTcanas quoque fervida brumas Solvit, ut exutus glacie iam mollior amnis Caucasea de cot« flnat Rhodopeius Hebrus. Mansuevere Getae, feritasque cruenta Geloni Lacte mero sitiens exsanguia pocula miscet, Libatura sacros Christi de sanguine potus. Novit et Atlantis pridem plaga perfida Mauri, Dedere crinitos ad Christi altaria reges (o). Ex quo mortalem praestrinxit Spiritus alvum, 43'> Spiritus ille Deus ; Deus et se corpore matris Induit, atque hominem de virginitate cveavit; ' Delphica damnatis tacuerunt sortibus antra, Non tripodas cortina tegit, non spumat anhelus Fata Sibyllinis fanaticus edita libris. Perdidit insanos mendax Dodona vapores, Mortua iam mutae lugent oracula Cumae, Nec responsa refert Libycis in Syi"tibus Hammon. Ipsa suis Christum Capitolia Eomula moerent Principibus lucere Deum, destructaque templa Imperio cecidisse ducum. lam purpura supplex Sternitur Aeneadae rectoris ad atria Christi, Vexillumque Crucis summus dominator adorat. Principibus tamen e cunctis non defuit unus, Me puero, ut memini, ductor fortissimus armis, Conditor et legnm, celebeiTimus ore manugue, Consultor patriae, sed non consultor habendae ^eligionis, amans tercentum millia divum : ^Perfidus ille Deo, quamvis non perfidus orbi. Augustum caput ante pedes cm-vare Miuervae → Laxavit Scythicas verbo penetrante pruinas Vox Evangelica, Hyrcanas quoque fervida brumas Solvit, ut exutus glacie iam mollior amnis Caucasea de cote fluat Rhodopeius Hebrus. Mansuevere Getae, feritasque cruenta Geloni Lacte mero sitiens exsanguia pocula miscet, Libatura sacros Christi de sanguine potus. Novit et Atlantis pridem plaga perfida Mauri, Dedere crinitos ad Christi altaria reges. Ex quo mortalem praestrinxit Spiritus alvum, Spiritus ille Deus ; Deus et se corpore matris Induit, atque hominem de virginitate creavit; Delphica damnatis tacuerunt sortibus antra, Non tripodas cortina tegit, non spumat anhelus Fata Sibyllinis fanaticus edita libris. Perdidit insanos mendax Dodona vapores, Mortua iam mutae lugent oracula Cumae, Nec responsa refert Libycis in Syrtibus Hammon. Ipsa suis Christum Capitolia Romula moerent Principibus lucere Deum, destructaque templa Imperio cecidisse ducum. Iam purpura supplex Sternitur Aeneadae rectoris ad atria Christi, Vexillumque Crucis summus dominator adorat. Principibus tamen e cunctis non defuit unus, Me puero, ut memini, ductor fortissimus armis, Conditor et legum, celeberrimus ore manuque, Consultor patriae, sed non consultor habendae Religionis, amans tercentum millia divum : Perfidus ille Deo, quamvis non perfidus orbi. Augustum caput ante pedes curvare Minervae.

Topics: Christology, Eucharist

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.421 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 421–450; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-421). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.451Lanfranchi 2:lines 451–480

Fictilis, et soleas Iunonis lambere, plantis Herculis advolvi, genua incerare Dianae; Quin et Apollineo frontem submittere gypso, Aut Pollucis equum suffire ardentibus extis. Forte litans Hecaten placabat sanguine multo; Pontificum festis feriunda securibus illic Agmina vaccarum steterant, vitulasque revincta Fronte coronatas umbrabat torta cupressus. Iamque insertato reserabat viscera cultro Vittatus de more senex, manibusque cruentis Tractabat trepidas letali frigore fibras, Postremosque animae pulsus in corde tepenti Callidus interpres numeris et fine notabat; Quum subito exclamat media inter sacra sacerdos Pallidus : En quid ago? maius, rex optime, maius Numen nescio quod nostris intervenit aris, Quam sufferre queant spumantia cymbia lacte, Caesarum sanguis pecudum, verbena, coronae, Accitas video longe dispergier umbras, Territa Persephone vertit vestigia retro, Exstinctis facibus, fracto fugitiva flagello. Nil agit arcanum murmur, nil Thessala prosunt Carmina, turbatos revocat nulla hostia manes. Nonne vides, ut turibulis frigentibus ignis Marceat? ut canis pigrescat pruna favillis? Ecce Palatinus pateram retinere minister Non valet, elisa destillant balsama dextra ; Flamen et ipse suas miratur vertice laurus Cedere, et incertum frustratur victima ferrum. Nescio quis, certe subrepsit Christicolarum

of clay, to lick the sandals of Juno, to roll at the feet of Hercules, to smear the knees of Diana with wax; nay, even to bow his brow before the plaster of Apollo, or to fumigate the horse of Pollux with burning entrails. As it happened, sacrificing, he was appeasing Hecate with much blood; herds of cows had stood there, to be struck by the axes at the pontiffs’ feasts, and twisted cypress shaded the heifers crowned on their bound brows. And now the old man, wearing the fillet according to custom, was opening the entrails with the inserted knife, and with bloody hands handling the fibres trembling with the cold of death, and, a crafty interpreter, noting by numbers and limits the last pulses of life in the warm heart; when suddenly in the midst of the rites the priest cries out, pale: “See, what am I doing? Some greater, best king, greater divine power has come upon our altars than the cups foaming with milk can bear, the slain blood of cattle, the sacred boughs, the garlands. I see the summoned shades scattered far; Persephone, terrified, turns back her steps, her torches put out, fleeing with broken scourge. The secret murmur does nothing, Thessalian songs avail nothing, no victim calls back the troubled ghosts. Do you not see how the fire in the cold censers languishes? how the coal grows sluggish under white ashes? See, the Palatine attendant cannot hold the libation dish; the balsam drips from his squeezed right hand; the flamen himself wonders that his laurels fall from his head, and the victim cheats the uncertain iron. Some one, surely, of the worshipers of Christ has crept in

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Summary: The pagan emperor worships the gods’ images; at a sacrifice to Hecate the presiding priest suddenly cries out that a greater divine power has disrupted the rite, scattering the spirits and quenching the fire, and that a Christian must be present.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Pictilis, et soleas lunonis lambere, plantis Herculis advolvi, genua incerare Dianae; Quin et Apollineo frontem submittere gypso, Aut Pollucis equum suffire ardentibus extis. Forte litans Hecaten placabat sanguine multo; Pontificum festis ferieuda securibus illic Agmina vaccarum steterant, vitulasque rovincta Fronte coronatas umbrabat torta cupressus. lamque insertato reserabat viscera cultro Vittatus de more senex, manibusque cruontis Tractabat trepidas letali frigore fibras, Postremosque animae pulsus in corde tepenti Callidus interpres numeris et fine notabat; Quiim subito exclamat media inter sacra sacerdos Pallidus : en quid ago? maius^ rex optime, maius Numen nescio quod nostris intervenit aris, Quam sufferre queant spumantia cjinbia lacte, Caesarum sangiiis pecudum, verbena, coronae, Accitas video longe dispergier umbras, Territa Persephone vertit vestigia retro,_ Extinctis facibus, fracto fugitiva flagello. Nil agit arcanum murmur, nil Tliessala prosunt Carmina, turbatos revocat nulla hostia manes. Nonne vides, ut turibulis frigentibus ignis Marceat? ut canis pigrescat pruna favillis? Ecce Palatinus pateram retinere minister Non valet, elisa destillant balsama dextra ; Mamen et ipse suas mu'atur vertice laurus Cedere, et incertum frustratur victima ferrum. Nescio quis, certe subrepsit Christicolarum → Fictilis, et soleas Iunonis lambere, plantis Herculis advolvi, genua incerare Dianae; Quin et Apollineo frontem submittere gypso, Aut Pollucis equum suffire ardentibus extis. Forte litans Hecaten placabat sanguine multo; Pontificum festis feriunda securibus illic Agmina vaccarum steterant, vitulasque revincta Fronte coronatas umbrabat torta cupressus. Iamque insertato reserabat viscera cultro Vittatus de more senex, manibusque cruentis Tractabat trepidas letali frigore fibras, Postremosque animae pulsus in corde tepenti Callidus interpres numeris et fine notabat; Quum subito exclamat media inter sacra sacerdos Pallidus : En quid ago? maius, rex optime, maius Numen nescio quod nostris intervenit aris, Quam sufferre queant spumantia cymbia lacte, Caesarum sanguis pecudum, verbena, coronae, Accitas video longe dispergier umbras, Territa Persephone vertit vestigia retro, Exstinctis facibus, fracto fugitiva flagello. Nil agit arcanum murmur, nil Thessala prosunt Carmina, turbatos revocat nulla hostia manes. Nonne vides, ut turibulis frigentibus ignis Marceat? ut canis pigrescat pruna favillis? Ecce Palatinus pateram retinere minister Non valet, elisa destillant balsama dextra ; Flamen et ipse suas miratur vertice laurus Cedere, et incertum frustratur victima ferrum. Nescio quis, certe subrepsit Christicolarum.

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.451 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 451–480; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-451). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Lanfranchi's edition (Turin, 1898; OCR, corrections logged); checked afterwards privately against FOTC 52.

1.481Lanfranchi 2:lines 481–510

Hic iuvenum. Genus hoc hominum tremit infula, et omne Pulvinar divum: lotus procul absit, et unctus. Pulchra reformatis redeat Proserpina sacris. » Dixit, et exsanguis collabitur; ac, velut ipsum Cerneret exserto minitantem fulmine Christum, Ipse quoque exanimis, posito diademate, princeps Pallet, et adstantes circuminspicit: ecquis alumnus Chrismatis inscripto signarit tempora ligno; Qui Zoroastraeos turbasset fronte susurros. Armiger e cuneo puerorum flavicomantum Purpurei custos lateris deprenditur unus: Nec negat, et gemino gemmata hastilia ferro Proiicit, ac signum Christi se ferre fatetur. Prosiluit pavidus, deiecto antistite, princeps, Marmoreum fugiens, nullo comitante, sacellum. Tum tremefacta cohors, dominique oblita, supinas Erigit ad caelum facies, atque invocat Iesum. Iamne piget facti? iam poenitet? en tibi Christum, Infelix Iudaea, Deum : qui sabbata solvens Terrea, mortales aeterna in sabbata sumpsit. Gentibus emicuit, praefulsit regibus, orbem Possidet, imperii dominam sibi cedere Romam Compulit, et simulacra deum Tarpeia subegit. Disce tuis miseranda malis, quo vindice tandem Vana superstitio, lex et carnaliter acta Plectatur; cuius virtus te proterat ultrix. Destructone iacent Salomonia saxa metallo, Aedificata manu? Iacet illud nobile templum. Cur iacet? artificis quia dextra solubilis illud Caementum struxit resolubile : iure solutum est,

here among the young men. The priestly fillet trembles at this race of men, and every couch of the gods: let the washed and anointed one be far away. Let beautiful Proserpina return, the rites restored.” He spoke, and collapses bloodless; and, as if he saw Christ himself threatening with his thunderbolt drawn, the emperor too, lifeless, his diadem laid aside, turns pale, and looks around at those standing by: which nursling of the chrism had signed his temples with the inscribed wood and troubled the Zoroastrian whispers with his brow? One armor-bearer from the band of fair-haired youths, guard of the purple side, is found out: nor does he deny it, but throws down his spear-shafts, jewelled with double iron, and confesses that he bears the sign of Christ. The emperor leapt forth in fear, the priest thrown down, fleeing the marble shrine with no one accompanying him. Then the terrified cohort, forgetting its master, raises its upturned faces to heaven, and calls on Jesus. Are you now sorry for what you did? Do you now repent? See your Christ, unhappy Judea, God: who, loosing the earthly sabbaths, has taken mortals into eternal sabbaths. He has shone out to the nations, outshone kings, possesses the world, has compelled Rome, mistress of the empire, to yield to him, and subdued the Tarpeian images of the gods. Learn, pitiable one, from your misfortunes, by what avenger at last vain superstition and a law carried out carnally are punished, whose avenging power tramples you. Do the stones of Solomon, built by hand, lie destroyed with their metal? That noble temple lies low. Why does it lie low? Because the soluble right hand of a craftsman built that dissoluble masonry: rightly it was dissolved,

Heb 4:9 (echo, medium confidence) · Mark 14:58 (echo, medium confidence)

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Summary: A baptized guardsman, signed with the cross, confesses Christ; the emperor flees and his soldiers call on Jesus; Judea is told to see in Christ the God who has conquered Rome, and that the destruction of Solomon’s handmade temple was deserved.

  • ‘Washed and anointed’, ‘nursling of the chrism’ and ‘signed with the inscribed wood’ refer to baptism, chrismation and the sign of the cross. Heb 4:9; Mark 14:58. The address to Judea is translated as written.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Hic iuvenum. Genus hoc hominum tremit infula, et omne Pulvinar divum: lotus procul absit, et unctus. Pulchra reformatis redeat Proserpina sacris. Dixit, et exsanguis collabitur; ac, velut ipsum Cerneret exserto minitantem fulmine Christum , Ipse quoque exanimis, posito diademate, princeps Pallet,et adstantes circuminspicit: ecquis alumnus Chrismatis inscripto signarit tempora ligno; Qui Zoroastraeos turbasset fronte susurros. Armiger o cuneo puerorum flavicomantum Purpurei custos lateris deprenditur unus: Xec negat, et gemino gemmata hastilia ferro Proiicit, ac signum Christi se ferre fatetur. Prosiluit pavidus, deiecto antistite, princeps, Marmoreum fugiens, nullo comitante, sacellum. Tum tremefacta cohors, dominique oblita, supinas Erigit ad caelum facies, atque invocat lesum. lam ne pigeffacti? iampoenitet?entibi Christum (G), Infelix ludaea, Deum : qui sabbata solvens Terrea, mortales aeterna in sabbata sumsit. Gentibus emicuit, praefalsit regibus, orbem Possidet, imperii dominam sibi cedere Eomam Compulit, et simulacra deiim Tarpeia subegit. Disce tuis miseranda malis, quo vindice tandem Yana superstitio, lex et carnaliter acta Plectatur; cuius virtus te proterat ultrix. Destructone iacent Salomonia saxa metallo, Aedificata manu? lacet illud nobile templum. Cur iacet? artificis quia dextra solubilis illud Caementum struxit resolubile : iure solutum est, → Hic iuvenum. Genus hoc hominum tremit infula, et omne Pulvinar divum: lotus procul absit, et unctus. Pulchra reformatis redeat Proserpina sacris. » Dixit, et exsanguis collabitur; ac, velut ipsum Cerneret exserto minitantem fulmine Christum, Ipse quoque exanimis, posito diademate, princeps Pallet, et adstantes circuminspicit: ecquis alumnus Chrismatis inscripto signarit tempora ligno; Qui Zoroastraeos turbasset fronte susurros. Armiger e cuneo puerorum flavicomantum Purpurei custos lateris deprenditur unus: Nec negat, et gemino gemmata hastilia ferro Proiicit, ac signum Christi se ferre fatetur. Prosiluit pavidus, deiecto antistite, princeps, Marmoreum fugiens, nullo comitante, sacellum. Tum tremefacta cohors, dominique oblita, supinas Erigit ad caelum facies, atque invocat Iesum. Iamne piget facti? iam poenitet? en tibi Christum, Infelix Iudaea, Deum : qui sabbata solvens Terrea, mortales aeterna in sabbata sumpsit. Gentibus emicuit, praefulsit regibus, orbem Possidet, imperii dominam sibi cedere Romam Compulit, et simulacra deum Tarpeia subegit. Disce tuis miseranda malis, quo vindice tandem Vana superstitio, lex et carnaliter acta Plectatur; cuius virtus te proterat ultrix. Destructone iacent Salomonia saxa metallo, Aedificata manu? Iacet illud nobile templum. Cur iacet? artificis quia dextra solubilis illud Caementum struxit resolubile : iure solutum est,.

Topics: Christology, Baptism

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.481 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 481–510; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-481). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Lanfranchi's edition (Turin, 1898; OCR, corrections logged); checked afterwards privately against FOTC 52.

1.511Lanfranchi 2:lines 511–540

Et iacet, in nihilum quoniam redit omne politum. Quod fieri recipit, recipit quandoque perire. Si nostrum contra, quod sit, vis discere, templum, Est illud, quod nemo opifex fabriliter aptans Composuit, quod nulla abies, pinusve dolata Texuit ; exciso quod numquam marmore crevit : Cuius onus nullis fultum sublime columnis Fornice curvato tenui super arte pependit ; Sed Verbo factum Domini, non voce sonora : Sed Verbo, quod semper erat. Verbum caro factum Hoc templum aeternum est, hoc finem non habet, hoc tu Expugnare volens, flagris, cruce, felle petisti. Destructum iacuit poenis vexantibus: esto. Matris enim ex utero, quod destrueretur, habebat. Sed, quod morte brevi materna ex parte solutum est, Maiestate Patris vivum lux tertia reddit. Vidisti, angelicis comitatum coetibus, alte Ire meum, cuius servor munimine, templum. Illius aeternae suspendunt culmina portae, Ac per inaccessas scalarum gloria turres Tollitur, et gradibus lucet via candida summis. At tua congestae tumulant holocausta ruinae : Quid merearis, Titus docuit ; docuere rapinis Pompeianae acies; quibus exstirpata per omnes Terrarum pelagique plagas tua membra feruntur. Exsiliis vagus huc illuc fluitantibus errat Iudaeus, postquam patria de sede revulsus, Supplicium pro caede luit, Christique negati Sanguine respersus commissa piacula solvit. En quo priscorum virtus defluxit avorum?

and lies low, since everything polished returns to nothing. What admits of being made admits one day of perishing. If, on the other hand, you wish to learn what our temple is: it is that which no workman, fitting it with craft, has put together, which no fir or hewn pine has woven, which never grew from quarried marble, whose lofty weight, supported by no columns, has not hung above on a curved vault by slender art, but was made by the Word of the Lord, not by a sounding voice: by the Word, which always was. The Word made flesh, this is the eternal temple, this has no end; this you, wishing to storm it, attacked with scourges, cross, gall. It lay destroyed by harassing punishments: granted. For from his mother’s womb he had what could be destroyed. But what was dissolved by a brief death on the mother’s side, the third day gives back alive by the majesty of the Father. You saw my temple go on high, accompanied by angelic throngs, by whose protection I am kept safe. The everlasting doors lift up its summits, and its glory is raised through inaccessible towers of stairs, and a white road shines on the highest steps. But your burnt offerings are buried by heaped-up ruins: what you deserve Titus taught; the armies of Pompey taught with their plunder; by whom your limbs, uprooted, are carried through all regions of land and sea. The Jew wanders, a vagrant, here and there in floating exiles, since, torn from his ancestral seat, he pays the penalty for the slaughter, and, sprinkled with the blood of the Christ he denied, atones for the crimes he committed. See, to what has the virtue of the ancient forefathers flowed down?

John 2:19 (allusion, high confidence) · John 2:21 (allusion, high confidence) · John 1:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 1:9 (allusion, medium confidence) · Ps 24:7 (23:7 Vulg.) (allusion, medium confidence) · Matt 27:25 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: The Christian temple is the Word made flesh, not built by hands: destroyed in its human nature by the passion, it was raised on the third day and ascended; the Jewish temple was destroyed by Titus, and the Jewish people scattered.

  • John 2:19–21; 1:14; Acts 1:9–11; Ps 24:7; Matt 27:25. The poet’s polemic against the Jewish people is translated as written.

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  • Digital text corrected (OCR text badly garbled: clear slips corrected throughout, stray line numbers, note marks, footnotes and running heads removed (readings restored by sense are named in the notes)): Et iacet, in nihilum quoniam redit omne politum. Quod fieri recipit, ]-ecipit quandoque perire. Si nostrum contra, quod sit, vis discere,templum, Est illud, quod nemo opifex fabriliter aptans Composuit, quod nulla abies, pinusve dolata Texuit ; exciso quod numquam marmore crevit : Cuius onus nullis fultum sublime columnis Fornice curvato tenui super arte pependit ; Sed Verbo factum Domini , non voce sonora : Sed Verbo, quod semper erat. Verbum caro factuni Hoc templum aeternum est, lioc finem non habet, hoc tu Expugnare volens, flagris, cruce, felle petisti. Destructum iacuit poenis vexantibus: esto. Matris enim ex utt-ro, quod destrueretur, habebat. Sed, quod morte brevi materna ex parte solutum Maiestate Patris vivum lux tertia reddit. Vidisti, angelicis comitatum coetibus, alte Ire meum, cuius servor munimiiie, templum. Illius aoteruae susi)endunt culmina portae, ^ Ac per inaccessas scalarum g-loria turres 585 \ f* Tollitur, et gradibus lucet via candida summis. ' At tua congestae tumulant holocausta ruinae : Quid mereare, Titus docuit ; docuere rdpinis Pompeianae acies; quibus exstirpata per omnes Terrarum pelagique plagas tua membra feruntur. Exsiliis vagus huc illuc fluitantibus errat ludaeus, postquam patria de sede revulsus, Supplicinm pro caede luit, Christique negati Sanguine respersus commissa piacula solvit. En quo priscorum virtus defluxit avorum? → Et iacet, in nihilum quoniam redit omne politum. Quod fieri recipit, recipit quandoque perire. Si nostrum contra, quod sit, vis discere, templum, Est illud, quod nemo opifex fabriliter aptans Composuit, quod nulla abies, pinusve dolata Texuit ; exciso quod numquam marmore crevit : Cuius onus nullis fultum sublime columnis Fornice curvato tenui super arte pependit ; Sed Verbo factum Domini, non voce sonora : Sed Verbo, quod semper erat. Verbum caro factum Hoc templum aeternum est, hoc finem non habet, hoc tu Expugnare volens, flagris, cruce, felle petisti. Destructum iacuit poenis vexantibus: esto. Matris enim ex utero, quod destrueretur, habebat. Sed, quod morte brevi materna ex parte solutum est, Maiestate Patris vivum lux tertia reddit. Vidisti, angelicis comitatum coetibus, alte Ire meum, cuius servor munimine, templum. Illius aeternae suspendunt culmina portae, Ac per inaccessas scalarum gloria turres Tollitur, et gradibus lucet via candida summis. At tua congestae tumulant holocausta ruinae : Quid merearis, Titus docuit ; docuere rapinis Pompeianae acies; quibus exstirpata per omnes Terrarum pelagique plagas tua membra feruntur. Exsiliis vagus huc illuc fluitantibus errat Iudaeus, postquam patria de sede revulsus, Supplicium pro caede luit, Christique negati Sanguine respersus commissa piacula solvit. En quo priscorum virtus defluxit avorum?.

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Prudentius, Apoth. 1.511 (Lanfranchi 2:lines 511–540; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/prudentius-apotheosis/1-511). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Lanfranchi's edition (Turin, 1898; OCR, corrections logged); checked afterwards privately against FOTC 52.