Cure of Greek Maladies 12.64–12.98
Greek text: Raeder.English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Chapter 12
12.64Raeder, 315
λέγει δὲ οὕτως" πρὸς δὲ τὴν τῶν ἀφροδισίων χρῆσιν σφοδρότερον μὲν εἶναι, ἀδικίαν δὲ μὴ προσεῖναι" ἢ γὰρ ταῖς γαμεταῖς ἢ ταῖς κοιναῖς χρῆσθαι μόναις. δύο δὲ σχεῖν γυναῖκας ἅμα, Ξανθίππην μὲν πολῖτιν καὶ κοινοτέραν πῶς, Μυρτὼ δὲ Ἀριστείδου θυγατριδῆν τοῦ “υσιμάχους καὶ τὴν μὲν Ξανθίππην προσπλακεῖσαν λαβεῖν, ἐξ ἧς ὃ Δαμπροκλῆς ἐγένετο" τὴν δὲ ΜΜυρτὼ γαμηθεῖσαν, ἐξ ἧς Σωφρογίσκος καὶ Μενέξενος.
legei de houtōs" pros de tēn tōn aphrodisiōn chrēsin sphodroteron men einai, adikian de mē proseinai" ē gar tais gametais ē tais koinais chrēsthai monais. dyo de schein gynaikas hama, Xanthippēn men politin kai koinoteran pōs, Myrtō de Aristeidou thygatridēn tou “ysimachous kai tēn men Xanthippēn prosplakeisan labein, ex hēs ho Damproklēs egeneto" tēn de MMyrtō gamētheisan, ex hēs Sōphrogiskos kai Menexenos.
He speaks thus: 'In the use of sexual pleasures he was rather vehement, but no injustice was involved; for he used only wives or common women. He had two wives at the same time: Xanthippe, a citizen of somewhat common sort, and Myrto, the granddaughter of Aristides son of Lysimachus. Xanthippe he took when she had attached herself to him, and from her Lamprocles was born; Myrto he married, and from her came Sophroniscus and Menexenus.
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Summary: Porphyry, after Aristoxenus, reports that Socrates had two wives at once, Xanthippe and Myrto.
- Porphyry, Philosophical History, citing Aristoxenus. The report that Socrates had two wives at once was disputed in antiquity.
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry (Porphyry, Philosophical History; quotation); Aristoxenus (Aristoxenus; quotation)
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.64 (Raeder, 315; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-64). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.65Raeder, 315
αὗται δὲ ξυνάπτουσαι μάχην πρὸς ἀλλήλας, ἐπειδὰν παύσαιντο, ἐπὶ τὸν Σωκράτην ὥρμων, διὰ τὸ μηδέποτε αὐτὰς μαχομένας διακωλύειν, γελᾶν δὲ καὶ ἀλλήλαις καὶ αὐτῷ μαχομένας ὁρῶντα. εἶναι δέ φησιν αὖτὸν ἐν ταῖς ὁμιλίαις ἐνίοτε φιλαπεχθήμονα καὶ λοίδορον
hautai de xynaptousai machēn pros allēlas, epeidan pausainto, epi ton Sōkratēn hōrmōn, dia to mēdepote autas machomenas diakōlyein, gelan de kai allēlais kai autǭ machomenas horōnta. einai de phēsin auton en tais homiliais eniote philapechthēmona kai loidoron
These would join battle with each other, and when they stopped, they would rush at Socrates, because he never stopped them when they fought, but laughed when he saw them fighting with each other and with him.' And he says that in conversation he was sometimes quarrelsome and abusive
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Summary: Socrates' two wives quarrelled and turned on him because he laughed at them; he was also quarrelsome in conversation.
- Porphyry, Philosophical History, citing Aristoxenus.
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry (Porphyry, Philosophical History; quotation); Aristoxenus (Aristoxenus; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.65 (Raeder, 315; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-65). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.66Raeder, 315
καὶ ὑβριστικόν καὶ ταῦτα δὲ περὶ τοῦ Σωκράτους ὁ Πορφύριος ἔφη" «ἐλέγετο δὲ περὶ αὐτοῦ, ὡς ἄρα παῖς ὧν οὐκ εὖ βιώσειεν οὐδὲ εὐτάκτως. πρῶτον μὲν γάρ φασιν αὐτὸν τῷ πατρὶ διατελέσαι ἀπειθοῦντα, καὶ ὁπότε κελεύσειεν αὐτὸν λαβόντα τὰ ὄργανα τὰ περὶ τὴν τέχνην ἀπαντᾶν ὁπουδήποτε, ὀλιγωρήσαντα τοῦ προστάγματος περιτρέχειν αὐτόν, ὅπου ποτὲ δόξειεν.
kai hybristikon kai tauta de peri tou Sōkratous ho Porphyrios ephē" «elegeto de peri autou, hōs ara pais hōn ouk eu biōseien oude eutaktōs. prōton men gar phasin auton tǭ patri diatelesai apeithounta, kai hopote keleuseien auton labonta ta organa ta peri tēn technēn apantan hopoudēpote, oligōrēsanta tou prostagmatos peritrechein auton, hopou pote doxeien.
and insolent. And Porphyry said this too about Socrates: 'It was said of him that as a boy he did not live well or in an orderly way. For first, they say, he continued to disobey his father, and whenever his father bade him take the tools of his craft and meet him somewhere, he neglected the order and ran about wherever he pleased.
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Summary: Porphyry reports that Socrates as a boy disobeyed his father.
- Porphyry, Philosophical History.
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry (Porphyry, Philosophical History; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.66 (Raeder, 315; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-66). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.67Raeder, 316
ἤδη δὲ περὶ τὰ ἑπτακαίδεκα ἔτη προσελθεῖν αὐτῷ ᾿Αρχέλαον τὸν Ἀναξαγόρου μαθητήν, φάσκοντα ἐραστὴν εἶναι᾽ τὸν δὲ Σωκράτην οὐκ ἀπώσασθαι τὴν ἔντευξίν τὲ καὶ ὁμιλίαν τὴν πρὸς τὸν ᾿Αρχέλαον, ἀλλὰ γενέσθαν παρ᾽ αὐτῷ ἔτη συχνά" καὶ οὕτως ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀρχελά
ēdē de peri ta heptakaideka etē proselthein autǭ ᾿Archelaon ton Anaxagorou mathētēn, phaskonta erastēn einai᾽ ton de Sōkratēn ouk apōsasthai tēn enteuxin te kai homilian tēn pros ton ᾿Archelaon, alla genesthan par᾽ autǭ etē sychna" kai houtōs hypo tou Archela
And when he was about seventeen years old, Archelaus, the disciple of Anaxagoras, approached him, saying that he was his lover; and Socrates did not reject meeting and keeping company with Archelaus, but was with him for many years; and so he was turned by Archelaus
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Summary: Porphyry says that Archelaus, pupil of Anaxagoras, became Socrates' lover and teacher.
- Porphyry, Philosophical History.
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry (Porphyry, Philosophical History; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.67 (Raeder, 316; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-67). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.68Raeder, 316
ου προτραπῆναι ἐπὶ τὰ φιλόσοφα εἶτα μετ᾽ ὀλίγα" »νἣν δὲ καὶ τῶν ἐπιτιμωμένων καὶ τάδε Σωκράτει, ὅτι εἰς τοὺς ὄχλους εἰσωθεῖτο καὶ τὰς διατριβὰς ἐποιεῖτο πρὸς ταῖς τραπέζαις καὶ πρὸς τοῖς “Εἰρμαῖς.“ ταῦτα περὶ Σωκράτους ὁ Πορφύριος ἔφη καὶ ἄλλα ἄττα, ἃ ἑκὼν εἶναν παρέλιπον᾽ ἐξ ὧν καταμαθεῖν ἔξεστιν, ὡς λόγοις ἐπήνουν ἐκεῖνοι τὴν ἀρετήν, ἠσπάξοντο δὲ τὴν ἡδονὴν καὶ τοῖς πάθεσι δουλεύειν ἠνείχοντο.
ou protrapēnai epi ta philosopha eita met᾽ oliga" »nēn de kai tōn epitimōmenōn kai tade Sōkratei, hoti eis tous ochlous eisōtheito kai tas diatribas epoieito pros tais trapezais kai pros tois “Eirmais.“ tauta peri Sōkratous ho Porphyrios ephē kai alla atta, ha hekōn einan parelipon᾽ ex hōn katamathein exestin, hōs logois epēnoun ekeinoi tēn aretēn, ēspaxonto de tēn hēdonēn kai tois pathesi douleuein ēneichonto.
toward philosophy.' Then a little later: 'This too was among the charges against Socrates, that he pushed his way into crowds and held his discussions at the bankers' tables and by the Herms.' These things Porphyry said about Socrates, and certain others, which I have willingly left out; from them one may learn that those men praised virtue in words but embraced pleasure and endured being slaves to the passions.
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Summary: Porphyry's reports show that the philosophers praised virtue in word but served pleasure.
- Porphyry, Philosophical History.
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry (Porphyry, Philosophical History; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.68 (Raeder, 316; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-68). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.69Raeder, 316
εἰ γὰρ δὴ κατὰ τὸν Πορφύριον καὶ περὶ τὰ ἀφροδίσια ὁρμητικῶς εἶχε καὶ δύο γυναιξὶ κατὰ ταὐτὸν ὁμιλῶν οὐκ ἐλάμβανε κόρον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ταῖς κοιναῖς ἀνέδην ἐχρῆτο καὶ τῶν ἐν ταῖς παλαίστραις γυμνουμένων νέων κατὰ τὸν Πλάτωνα τὴν θέαν ἠσπάζετο καὶ δυσόργητος ἦν καὶ μόγις ἄττοντα κατέχειν ἠδύνατο τὸν θυμὸν καὶ λοίδορον εἶχε τὴν γλῶτταν καὶ ἀχαλίνωτον, ποῖον ἄρα εἶδος φιλοσοφίας μετήει;
ei gar dē kata ton Porphyrion kai peri ta aphrodisia hormētikōs eiche kai dyo gynaixi kata tauton homilōn ouk elambane koron, alla kai tais koinais anedēn echrēto kai tōn en tais palaistrais gymnoumenōn neōn kata ton Platōna tēn thean ēspazeto kai dysorgētos ēn kai mogis attonta katechein ēdynato ton thymon kai loidoron eiche tēn glōttan kai achalinōton, poion ara eidos philosophias metēei?
For if, according to Porphyry, he was impetuous in matters of sex, and, living with two wives at the same time, was not satisfied, but also used common women shamelessly; and if, according to Plato, he welcomed the sight of the young men stripped in the wrestling schools; and if he was hot-tempered and could hardly restrain his darting anger, and had an abusive and unbridled tongue — what kind of philosophy, then, did he pursue?
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Summary: From Porphyry's and Plato's reports Theodoret concludes that Socrates' philosophy did not govern his life.
- Theodoret's polemical use of these reports about Socrates is translated as written.
Extrabiblical texts: Plato (Plato (works); allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.69 (Raeder, 316; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-69). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.70Raeder, 316
ὅτι δὲ καὶ Πλάτωνος κατηγοροῦσι τῶν παλαιῶν τινὲς ὡς πολλὰ πεποιηκότος φιλοσοφίας ἀνάξια, ἀκούσατε Ξενοφῶντος λέγοντος ἐν τῇ πρὸς «Αἰσχίνην ἐπιστολῇ" »»Αἰγύπτου γὰρ ἠφάσθησαν καὶ τῆς Πυθαγόρου τερατώδους σοφίας᾽ ὧν τὸ περιττὸν καὶ μὴ μόνιμον ἐπὶ “Σωκράτει διήλεγχεν ἔρως τυραννίδος, καὶ ἀντὶ διαίτης λιτῆς
hoti de kai Platōnos katēgorousi tōn palaiōn tines hōs polla pepoiēkotos philosophias anaxia, akousate Xenophōntos legontos en tę̄ pros «Aischinēn epistolę̄" »»Aigyptou gar ēphasthēsan kai tēs Pythagorou teratōdous sophias᾽ hōn to peritton kai mē monimon epi “Sōkratei diēlenchen erōs tyrannidos, kai anti diaitēs litēs
That some of the ancients also accuse Plato of having done many things unworthy of philosophy, hear Xenophon saying in his letter to Aeschines: 'For they laid hold of Egypt and of the marvel-mongering wisdom of Pythagoras; whose excess and lack of constancy toward Socrates was exposed by a love of tyranny, and instead of a simple diet,
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Summary: A letter ascribed to Xenophon accuses Plato of seeking Egyptian and Pythagorean lore and the favour of tyrants.
- Pseudo-Xenophon, Letter to Aeschines (one of the later Socratic Epistles, not by Xenophon).
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.70 (Raeder, 316; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-70). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.71Raeder, 316
Σικελιῶτις γαστρὸς τράπεζα.“ αἰνίττεται δὲ διὰ τούτων τὴν μετὰ Διονυσίου τοῦ τυράννου ἐν Σικελίᾳ διατριβήν. τὰς γὰρ ᾿άθήνας καταλιπὼν ἐκείνῳ. ξυνῆν, Συρακουσίας ἀπολαύων χλιδῆς, καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἐκείνου τελευτὴν τῷ ἐκείνου παιδί. τοσοῦτον δὲ παραινῶν τὸν τύραννον ὥνησεν, ὡς καὶ δεθῆναι κἀν ταῖς λυθοτομίαις εἰρχθῆναι᾽" ὕστερον δὲ αὖτὸν καὶ ὡς ἀνδράποδον ἀπέδοτο “βάρβαρον. καὶ ὁ Πλούταρχος δέ φησιν ἔλαιον αὐτὸν εἰς τὴν Αἴγυπτον ἐμπορίας χάριν μετακομίσαι.
Sikeliōtis gastros trapeza.“ ainittetai de dia toutōn tēn meta Dionysiou tou tyrannou en Sikelią diatribēn. tas gar ᾿athēnas katalipōn ekeinǭ. xynēn, Syrakousias apolauōn chlidēs, kai meta tēn ekeinou teleutēn tǭ ekeinou paidi. tosouton de parainōn ton tyrannon hōnēsen, hōs kai dethēnai kan tais lythotomiais eirchthēnai᾽" hysteron de auton kai hōs andrapodon apedoto “barbaron. kai ho Ploutarchos de phēsin elaion auton eis tēn Aigypton emporias charin metakomisai.
a Sicilian table for the belly.' By this he hints at his stay with Dionysius the tyrant in Sicily. For, leaving Athens, he lived with him, enjoying Syracusan luxury, and after his death with his son. And his counsel profited the tyrant so much that Plato was even bound and shut up in the stone quarries; and later he even sold him as a slave to a barbarian. And Plutarch too says that he carried oil to Egypt for the sake of trade.
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Summary: Plato lived in luxury at the court of Dionysius in Syracuse, was imprisoned and sold as a slave, and, says Plutarch, traded oil in Egypt.
- Plutarch, Solon 2.8 (Plato's oil trade in Egypt). The stories of Plato's imprisonment and sale are reported by various ancient biographers.
Extrabiblical texts: Plutarch, Sol. 2.8 (Plutarch; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.71 (Raeder, 316; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-71). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.72Raeder, 317
ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως καὶ τῶν τοιούτων ψόγων ἀκούοντες, θαυμάζομεν αὐτοῦ τὰ καλῶς εἰρημένα καὶ τὴν ἐκ τούτων ὠφέλειαν καὶ ὑμᾶς ἀξιοῦμεν ξυλλέγειν.
all᾽ homōs kai tōn toioutōn psogōn akouontes, thaumazomen autou ta kalōs eirēmena kai tēn ek toutōn ōpheleian kai hymas axioumen xyllegein.
But nevertheless, though we hear such reproaches, we admire what he said well, and we ask you too to gather the benefit from it.
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Summary: Despite these faults, Theodoret admires and urges others to profit from what Plato said well.
Extrabiblical texts: Plato (Plato (works); allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.72 (Raeder, 317; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-72). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.73Raeder, 317
καὶ γὰρ δὴ καὶ γυναῖκας γεγενῆσθαι παρ᾽ Ἕλλησιν ἀξιεπαίνους ἀκούομεν. Δυσιδίκη μὲν γάρ, ὥς φασιν, ἐλοῦτο μηδὲ τὸν χιτωνίσκον ἐκδυομένη, διὰ τὴν ὑπερβολὴν τῆς αἰδοῦς. ἡ δὲ Φιλωτέρα κατιοῦσα εἰς τὴν πύελον κατὰ βραχὺ τὸ τῷ ὕδατε καλυπτόμενον ἐγυμνοῦτο τοῦ σώματος, ἀναστέλλουσα κατ᾽ ὀλίγον τὸν χιτῶνα" καὶ αὖ πάλιν ἀνιοῦσα παραπλησίως ἠμπίσχετος Θεανὼ δὲ ἡ Πυθαγορική, ἀποβλέψαντός τινος εἰς αὐτὴν καὶ εἰπόντος" ««καλὸς ὃ πῆχυς“,.»ἀλλ᾽ οὐ δημόσιος’ ἀπεκρίνατο. ἐρωτηθεῖσα δὲ πάλιν᾽ ο“ποσταία γυνὴ ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸς εἰς τὸ Θεσμοφόριον κάτεισιν:..ἀπὸ μὲν τοῦ ἰδίου παραχρῆμα ἔφη,,,(ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ ἀλλοτρίου, οὐδέποτε.“
kai gar dē kai gynaikas gegenēsthai par᾽ Hellēsin axiepainous akouomen. Dysidikē men gar, hōs phasin, elouto mēde ton chitōniskon ekdyomenē, dia tēn hyperbolēn tēs aidous. hē de Philōtera katiousa eis tēn pyelon kata brachy to tǭ hydate kalyptomenon egymnouto tou sōmatos, anastellousa kat᾽ oligon ton chitōna" kai au palin aniousa paraplēsiōs ēmpischetos Theanō de hē Pythagorikē, apoblepsantos tinos eis autēn kai eipontos" ««kalos ho pēchys“,.»all᾽ ou dēmosios’ apekrinato. erōtētheisa de palin᾽ o“postaia gynē apo andros eis to Thesmophorion kateisin:..apo men tou idiou parachrēma ephē,,,(apo de tou allotriou, oudepote.“
For we hear that among the Greeks there were also women worthy of praise. Lysidice, as they say, bathed without even taking off her shift, because of her exceeding modesty. And Philotera, going down into the bath, uncovered little by little the part of her body that was covered by the water, drawing up her tunic gradually; and again, when coming up, she clothed herself in the same way. And Theano the Pythagorean, when someone looked at her and said, 'A fine arm', replied, 'But not public.' And when asked again, 'On what day after being with a man does a woman go down to the Thesmophorium?', she said: 'After her own, at once; after another's, never.'
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Summary: Greek women such as Lysidice, Philotera and Theano were praised for their modesty and chastity.
- Compare Clement, Miscellanies 4.19.121–122.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray bracket): ] ἐλοῦτο → ἐλοῦτο.
Extrabiblical texts: Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 4.19.121-122 (Miscellanies; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.73 (Raeder, 317; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-73). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.74Raeder, 317
ταῦτα καὶ ὅσα τοιαῦτα καὶ ἐπαινοῦμεν καὶ φιλοσοφίας εἶναι ἄξιά φαμεν. καὶ ἀποδεχόμεθα τὸν Πλάτωνα τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς τὸν γάμον ξυντάξαντα καὶ ἀθανασίας ἐπίνοιαν καὶ διαμογὴν τοῦ γένους καλέσανταἈημοκρίτῳ δὲ καὶ ᾿Ἐπικούρῳ λίαν μεμφόμεθα, παραιτεῖσθαι καὶ τὸν γάμον καὶ τὴν παιδογονίαν κελεύουσιν. τὴν γάρ τοι ἡδονὴν ὁρισάμενοι τέλος; τὰ φροντίδας ἔχοντα καί τινας ἀηδίας παντελῶς ἀπεκήρυξαν.
tauta kai hosa toiauta kai epainoumen kai philosophias einai axia phamen. kai apodechometha ton Platōna tois agathois ton gamon xyntaxanta kai athanasias epinoian kai diamogēn tou genous kalesantaAēmokritǭ de kai ᾿Epikourǭ lian memphometha, paraiteisthai kai ton gamon kai tēn paidogonian keleuousin. tēn gar toi hēdonēn horisamenoi telos? ta phrontidas echonta kai tinas aēdias pantelōs apekēryxan.
These things, and all others of this kind, we both praise and say are worthy of philosophy. And we accept Plato for ranking marriage among good things and calling it a thought of immortality and the continuance of the race; but we greatly blame Democritus and Epicurus, who bid men refuse both marriage and the begetting of children. For having defined pleasure as the end, they entirely renounced whatever brings cares and some unpleasantness.
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Summary: Theodoret approves Plato's praise of marriage as a means of continuing the race, and blames Democritus and Epicurus for rejecting marriage and children for the sake of pleasure.
- Plato, Laws 4.721b–c; compare Clement, Miscellanies 2.23.138 (Democritus and Epicurus).
Extrabiblical texts: Plato, Leg. 721b-c (Plato (works); allusion); Democritus (Democritus (fragments); allusion); Epicurus (Epicurus (sayings and fragments); allusion); Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 2.23.138 (Miscellanies; allusion)
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.74 (Raeder, 317; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-74). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.75Raeder, 318
οἵ δὲ τῆς Ποικίλης μέσην τινὰ ὁδὸν ὥδευσαν᾽ τοῖς γὰρ ἀδιαφόροις τὸν γάμον καὶ τὴν παιδογονίαν ξυνέζευξαν. οἵ δὲ θεῖοι λόγοι τὴν μὲν διὰ φιλοσοφίαν ἐπινοουμένην ἁγνείαν ὑμνοῦσιν, ὡς βίον προξενοῦσαν φροντίδων ἐλεύθερον᾽ τὸν δὲ σώφρονα γάμον νομοθετοῦσιν, ὡς καὶ τὸ γένος αὔξοντα καὶ λαγνείας τοὺς σωφρονεῖν βουλομένους ἐλευθεροῦντα᾽ πορνείας δὲ καὶ τῆς ἄλλης ἀκολασίας ὡς συώδους κατηγο ροῦσιν.
hoi de tēs Poikilēs mesēn tina hodon hōdeusan᾽ tois gar adiaphorois ton gamon kai tēn paidogonian xynezeuxan. hoi de theioi logoi tēn men dia philosophian epinooumenēn hagneian hymnousin, hōs bion proxenousan phrontidōn eleutheron᾽ ton de sōphrona gamon nomothetousin, hōs kai to genos auxonta kai lagneias tous sōphronein boulomenous eleutherounta᾽ porneias de kai tēs allēs akolasias hōs syōdous katēgo rousin.
Those of the Porch went a middle way; for they yoked marriage and the begetting of children to the indifferent things. But the divine words praise the chastity that is chosen for the sake of philosophy, as bringing a life free from cares; and they lay down temperate marriage as a law, as both increasing the race and freeing from lust those who wish to be temperate; and they condemn sexual immorality and all other licentiousness as swinish.
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Summary: The Stoics counted marriage indifferent, but Scripture praises chosen celibacy, ordains chaste marriage, and condemns sexual immorality.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.75 (Raeder, 318; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-75). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.76Raeder, 318
«τίμιος γὰρ ὁ γάμος ἐν πᾶσι, καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος φησὶν ὃ θεῖος ἀπόστολος᾽ ««πόρνους δὲ καὶ μοιχοὺς κρινεῖ ὁ Θεός.“ καὶ πάλιν" «λέγω δὲ τοῖς ἀγάμοις καὶ ταῖς χήραις᾽ καλὸν αὐτοῖς ἐστιν, ἐὰν μείνωσιν ὡς κἀγώ" εἰ δὲ οὐκ ἐγκρατεύονται, γαμησάτωσαν.“ καὶ ἑτέρωθι᾽' οαπορνεία. δὲ παὶ ἀκαθαρσία μηδὲ ὀνομαξέσθω ἐν ὑμῖν, παθὼς πρέπει ἁγίοις. καὶ ἀλλαχοῦ" μή τις πόρνος καὶ βέβηλος ὡς
«timios gar ho gamos en pasi, kai hē koitē amiantos phēsin ho theios apostolos᾽ ««pornous de kai moichous krinei ho Theos.“ kai palin" «legō de tois agamois kai tais chērais᾽ kalon autois estin, ean meinōsin hōs kagō" ei de ouk enkrateuontai, gamēsatōsan.“ kai heterōthi᾽' oaporneia. de pai akatharsia mēde onomaxesthō en hymin, pathōs prepei hagiois. kai allachou" mē tis pornos kai bebēlos hōs
'For marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled,' says the divine apostle, 'but the sexually immoral and adulterers God will judge.' And again: 'I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they remain as I am; but if they do not exercise self-control, let them marry.' And elsewhere: 'But let sexual immorality and impurity not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints.' And elsewhere: 'That no one be sexually immoral or profane like
Heb 13:4 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 7:8 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 7:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 5:3 (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 12:16 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul honours marriage, permits it to those without self-control, and forbids sexual immorality.
- Heb 13:4; 1 Cor 7:8–9; Eph 5:3; Heb 12:16.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.76 (Raeder, 318; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-76). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.77Raeder, 318
Ἡσαῦ οἵ μὲν οὖν ἡμέτερον διδάσκαλοι τὸν λογικοῖς πρέποντὰ διεθεσμοθέτησαν βίον οἵ δὲ τῶν φιλοσόφων ἄριστοι καὶ αὐτοὶ ταῖς ἡδοναῖς ἐδουλώθησαν καὶ νόμους ἔγραψαν ἀκολασίαν διδάσποντας᾽ τοιοῦτοι γὰρ οἵ περὶ γάμων καὶ παιδεραστίας τοῦ Πλάτωνος νόμοι. καὶ μέντοι καὶ περὶ φιλίας Ἱππόδαμος ὁ Πυθαγόρειος οὕτω γέγραφεν" ο»ἁ μὲν ἐξ ἐπιστάμας θεῶν, ἁ δὲ ἐκ παροχᾶς ἀνθρώπων, ἁ δὲ ἐξ
Hēsau hoi men oun hēmeteron didaskaloi ton logikois preponta diethesmothetēsan bion hoi de tōn philosophōn aristoi kai autoi tais hēdonais edoulōthēsan kai nomous egrapsan akolasian didaspontas᾽ toioutoi gar hoi peri gamōn kai paiderastias tou Platōnos nomoi. kai mentoi kai peri philias Hippodamos ho Pythagoreios houtō gegraphen" o»ha men ex epistamas theōn, ha de ek parochas anthrōpōn, ha de ex
Esau.' Our teachers, then, laid down the way of life that befits rational beings; but the best of the philosophers were themselves enslaved to pleasures and wrote laws that teach licentiousness; such are Plato's laws about marriages and pederasty. And indeed Hippodamus the Pythagorean wrote thus about friendship: 'One kind comes from knowledge of the gods, another from the bounty of men, another from
Heb 12:16 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Christian teachers prescribed a life fit for rational beings, while Plato wrote licentious laws on marriage and pederasty, and Hippodamus grounded friendship partly on benefits.
- Heb 12:16 (end). Plato, Republic 5.457c–461e and 468b–c (common wives; kisses for the brave). Hippodamus the Pythagorean (fragment, preserved also in Stobaeus); no controlled id exists.
Extrabiblical texts: Plato, Resp. 457c-468c (Plato (works); allusion); Hippodamus (Hippodamus; quotation)
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.77 (Raeder, 318; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-77). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.78Raeder, 318
ἁδονᾶς ζῴων.“ ὁ δὲ δεσπότης Χριστὸς ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς εὐαγγελίοις φησίν᾽ ομείξονα ταύτης ἀγάπην οὐδεὶς δύναται δεῖξαι, ἵνα τις θῇ τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ τῶν φίλων αὐτοῦ." τὰ τελεώτατα δὲ ἐκπαιδεύων; καὶ τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ἐκέλευσεν ἀγαπᾶν" ὁ δὲ τὴν Πυθαγόρειον ἐκπαιδευθεὶς τετρακτὺν τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην φιλίαν ἐκ παροχῆς ὡρίσατο κατορθοῦσθαι.
hadonas zǭōn.“ ho de despotēs Christos en tois hierois euangeliois phēsin᾽ omeixona tautēs agapēn oudeis dynatai deixai, hina tis thę̄ tēn psychēn autou hyper tōn philōn autou." ta teleōtata de ekpaideuōn? kai tous echthrous ekeleusen agapan" ho de tēn Pythagoreion ekpaideutheis tetraktyn tēn anthrōpinēn philian ek parochēs hōrisato katorthousthai.
the pleasure of animals.' But the Master Christ says in the holy Gospels: 'No one can show greater love than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.' And teaching the most perfect things, he commanded us to love even our enemies; whereas the one trained in the Pythagorean tetractys defined human friendship as achieved by bounty.
John 15:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 5:44 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Christ taught a love that lays down life for friends and loves enemies, while Hippodamus based friendship on benefits.
- John 15:13; Matt 5:44.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.78 (Raeder, 318; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-78). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.79Raeder, 319
οὐ μόνον δὲ ἀπῴδων ὅδε ὁ λόγος, ἀλλὰ καὶ πάμπαν ἀξύστατος. πολλοὺς γὰρ ἐχθρῶν εὐεργέτας γεγενημένους εὑρίσκομεν᾽ πολλοὺς δὲ εὖ μὲν παρά τινῶν πεπονθότας, ἀχαρίστους δὲ μάλα περὶ τοὺς εὐεργέτας γεγενημένους. οὐ τοίνυν παροχῆς ἔκγονος ἡ φιλία, ἀλλὰ καρπὸς φιλίας ἡ παροχή.
ou monon de apǭdōn hode ho logos, alla kai pampan axystatos. pollous gar echthrōn euergetas gegenēmenous heuriskomen᾽ pollous de eu men para tinōn peponthotas, acharistous de mala peri tous euergetas gegenēmenous. ou toinyn parochēs ekgonos hē philia, alla karpos philias hē parochē.
This word is not only out of tune but altogether incoherent. For we find many who have become benefactors of enemies, and many who, having been well treated by others, have become very ungrateful to their benefactors. Friendship, then, is not the offspring of bounty, but bounty is the fruit of friendship.
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Summary: Friendship does not come from benefits; rather benefits come from friendship.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.79 (Raeder, 319; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-79). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.80Raeder, 319
᾿ Ταῦτα πάλιν, ὦ ἄνδρες, παφεξετάσαντες καὶ γνόντες, ὅσον θείων καὶ ἀνθρωπίνων τὸ μέσον, δι ἐκείνων, οἷον δή τινῶν στοιχείων, ἐπὶ τὴν τούτων᾽ ὁδεύσατε τελειότητα καὶ μὴ προφασίζεσθε προφάσεις ἐν ἁμαρτίαις,“ ὅ φησιν ἡ μελῳδία τοῦ Πνεύματος.
᾿ Tauta palin, ō andres, paphexetasantes kai gnontes, hoson theiōn kai anthrōpinōn to meson, di ekeinōn, hoion dē tinōn stoicheiōn, epi tēn toutōn᾽ hodeusate teleiotēta kai mē prophasizesthe prophaseis en hamartiais,“ ho phēsin hē melǭdia tou Pneumatos.
Having again examined these things side by side, men, and having learned how great the distance is between the divine and the human, go on through those, as through first elements, to the perfection of these, and 'do not make excuses in sins', as the song of the Spirit says.
Ps 141:4 (140:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Theodoret urges the Greeks to move from human teachings to the perfection of the divine, without excuses.
- Ps 141:4 (LXX 140:4). The digital text repeats several words of the quotation; the repetitions have been removed.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (repeated words (dittography) and stray letters in the digital text): "αὶ γμιὴ οοὐὴ προφασίξεσθε προφασίξεσθε προφάσεις προφάσεις ἐν ἐν ἁμαρτίαις, ἁμαρτίαις.“ ὁ ἦ ἧ φησι φησιν → μὴ προφασίζεσθε προφάσεις ἐν ἁμαρτίαις,“ ὅ φησιν.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.80 (Raeder, 319; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-80). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.81Raeder, 319
ιὕταν γὰρ τοὺς εὐαγγελικοὺς ἐπιδείξωμεν νόμους πολλῷ τῆς Ελληνικῆς φιλοσοφίας ὄντας ὑψηλοτέρους, τηνικαῦτα ὑμεῖς τοὺς μὲν νόμους ἐπαινεῖτε, τοὺς δὲ τούτους παραβαίνοντας ἀδεῶς εἰς μέσον προφέρετε καὶ δι᾿ ἐκείνων πειρᾶσθε διαβάλλειν τοὺς νόμους.
hiytan gar tous euangelikous epideixōmen nomous pollǭ tēs Ellēnikēs philosophias ontas hypsēloterous, tēnikauta hymeis tous men nomous epaineite, tous de toutous parabainontas adeōs eis meson propherete kai di᾿ ekeinōn peirasthe diaballein tous nomous.
For when we show the laws of the Gospel to be far loftier than Greek philosophy, then you praise the laws, but you boldly bring forward those who transgress them, and through them try to slander the laws.
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Summary: The Greeks praise the Gospel's laws but use Christians who break them to discredit the laws.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.81 (Raeder, 319; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-81). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.82Raeder, 319
ἔδει δὲ ψέγειν μὲν ἐκείνους, ἀλλὰ μὴ τῶν νόμων κατηγορεῖν. οὐδὲ γὰρ. διὰ τὰς φαύλας ἀμπέλους φεύγομεν τὰς ἀρίστας, οὐδὲ διὰ τὰς πιμρὰς ἀμυγδάλας καὶ τὰς γλυκείας ἀποστρεφόμεθα, οὐδὲ διὰ τὸν ὑπόχαλπκον χρυσὸν καὶ τὸν ἀκίβδηλον διαβάλλομεν, οὐδὲ διὰ τὴν ἐψευσμένην πορφύραν καὶ τὴν ἀληθινὴν σκώπτομεν; οὐδὲ τῶν ἀμαθῶν ἕνεκα ξωγράφων καὶ τῶν ἐντέχνων κατηγοροῦμεν, οὐδὲ διὰ τοὺς πονηροὺς ἀνθρώπους καὶ τοὺς σπουδαίους μισοῦμεν, οὐδὲ ἤν τινὰ εὕρωμεν ἀνεπιστήμονα ἰατρόν, ἤδη καὶ τὴν ἰατρικὴν ἀπαγορεύομεν τέχνην, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ξωγράφων καὶ τῶν ἰατρῶν, καὶ μέντοι καὶ τῶν σκυτοτόμων καὶ τῶν χαλκοτύπων καὶ τῶν χρυσοχόων τοὺς μὲν ἀρίστους θαυμάζομεν, τοὺς δὲ τὴν τέχνην οὐκ ἀκριβοῦντας σκώπτειν εἰώθαμεν᾽ τὰς δέ γε τέχνας. κἂν μηδένα ἐπιστήμονα εὕρωμεν, διαβάλλειν οὐκ ἀνεχόμεθα.
edei de psegein men ekeinous, alla mē tōn nomōn katēgorein. oude gar. dia tas phaulas ampelous pheugomen tas aristas, oude dia tas pimras amygdalas kai tas glykeias apostrephometha, oude dia ton hypochalpkon chryson kai ton akibdēlon diaballomen, oude dia tēn epseusmenēn porphyran kai tēn alēthinēn skōptomen? oude tōn amathōn heneka xōgraphōn kai tōn entechnōn katēgoroumen, oude dia tous ponērous anthrōpous kai tous spoudaious misoumen, oude ēn tina heurōmen anepistēmona iatron, ēdē kai tēn iatrikēn apagoreuomen technēn, alla kai tōn xōgraphōn kai tōn iatrōn, kai mentoi kai tōn skytotomōn kai tōn chalkotypōn kai tōn chrysochoōn tous men aristous thaumazomen, tous de tēn technēn ouk akribountas skōptein eiōthamen᾽ tas de ge technas. kan mēdena epistēmona heurōmen, diaballein ouk anechometha.
But you ought to blame those men, and not accuse the laws. For we do not shun the best vines because of the bad ones, nor turn away from sweet almonds because of the bitter, nor disparage pure gold because of gold alloyed with copper, nor mock true purple because of counterfeit purple; nor do we accuse skilled painters because of unskilled ones, nor hate good men because of wicked ones; nor, if we find some ignorant doctor, do we at once forbid the art of medicine. Rather, of painters and doctors, and indeed of shoemakers and coppersmiths and goldsmiths, we admire the best and are accustomed to mock those who do not practise the art exactly; but the arts themselves, even if we find no one skilled in them, we do not allow ourselves to slander.
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Summary: As no one condemns a craft because of bad craftsmen, the Greeks should blame transgressors, not the Gospel's laws.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.82 (Raeder, 319; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-82). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.83Raeder, 320
τῶν γὰρ ἀτοπωτάτων διὰ τοὺς τυφλώττοντας τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς καὶ αὐτὴν τὴν ὀπτικὴν αἴσθησιν διαψέγειν ὡς ἄχρηστον, καὶ διὰ τοὺς τὴν γλῶτταν πεπεδημένους τῶν τῆς φωνῆς ὀργάνων ὡς οὐκ ἀναγκαίων κατηγορεῖν, καὶ διὰ τὰ βεβυσμένα ὦτα τὴν ἀκουστικὴν αἴσθησιν περιττὴν ὀνομάζειν.
tōn gar atopōtatōn dia tous typhlōttontas tous ophthalmous kai autēn tēn optikēn aisthēsin diapsegein hōs achrēston, kai dia tous tēn glōttan pepedēmenous tōn tēs phōnēs organōn hōs ouk anankaiōn katēgorein, kai dia ta bebysmena ōta tēn akoustikēn aisthēsin perittēn onomazein.
For it would be among the most absurd things, because of those who are blind in their eyes, to blame the very sense of sight as useless; and because of those whose tongues are bound, to accuse the organs of voice as unnecessary; and because of blocked ears, to call the sense of hearing superfluous.
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Summary: Blaming the laws for those who break them is as absurd as blaming sight for blindness.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.83 (Raeder, 320; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-83). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.84Raeder, 320
οὕτω τοίνυν ἀληθῶς σγχέτλιόν τε καὶ ἄδικον τῶν τοὺς νόμους παραβαινόντων εἵνεκα καὶ αὐτῶν τῶν νόμων κατηγορεῖν καὶ τῶν τούτους φυλάττειν ἐσπουδακότων. οὐδὲ γὰρ εἴ τὰς τέκτων κατὰ λόγον μὲν εὐθύνοι τὴν στάθμην, παρὰ λόγον δὲ τῷ σχκεπάρνῳ χρώμενος διαφθείροι τὰ σημεῖα τοῦ μέλανος, ἢ περαιτέρω ταύτης τῶν ἔνδον ἀφαιρούμενος ἢ περιττὰ ἔξωθεν καταλείπων, τὴν στάθμην αἰτιατέον, ἣ τὸ εὐθὲς ἐπιδείκνυσι" τῆς γάρ τοι τοῦ τέκτονος ἀμαθί
houtō toinyn alēthōs snchetlion te kai adikon tōn tous nomous parabainontōn heineka kai autōn tōn nomōn katēgorein kai tōn toutous phylattein espoudakotōn. oude gar ei tas tektōn kata logon men euthynoi tēn stathmēn, para logon de tǭ schkeparnǭ chrōmenos diaphtheiroi ta sēmeia tou melanos, ē peraiterō tautēs tōn endon aphairoumenos ē peritta exōthen kataleipōn, tēn stathmēn aitiateon, hē to euthes epideiknysi" tēs gar toi tou tektonos amathi
So it is truly monstrous and unjust, because of those who transgress the laws, to accuse both the laws themselves and those who have been eager to keep them. For if a carpenter sets his line correctly, but, using his adze wrongly, spoils the marks of the ink, either cutting away from inside beyond it or leaving superfluous parts outside, the line is not to be blamed, which shows what is straight; for the error belongs to the carpenter's ignorance.
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Summary: As a carpenter's mistakes are not the fault of his straight line, transgressions are not the fault of the laws.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.84 (Raeder, 320; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-84). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.85Raeder, 320
ας ἡ ἁμαρτίας οὐκοῦν οἵ νόμοι στάθμης τινὸς καὶ καγόνος καὶ γνώμονος ἐπέχουσι τάξιν᾽ τῶν δὲ τούτοις χρωμένων οἵ μὲν ἄριστα τὸν οἰκεῖον διευθύνουσι βίον, οἵ δὲ τὰ ῥᾷστα ἀντὶ τῶν βελτίστων προαιρούμενοι ἔξω τῆς τούτῶν εὐθύτητος βαίνουσιν. τοιγάρτοι τούτων μὲν κατηγορητέον, τοὺς δὲ νόμους ἐπαινετέον.
as hē hamartias oukoun hoi nomoi stathmēs tinos kai kagonos kai gnōmonos epechousi taxin᾽ tōn de toutois chrōmenōn hoi men arista ton oikeion dieuthynousi bion, hoi de ta rhąsta anti tōn beltistōn proairoumenoi exō tēs toutōn euthytētos bainousin. toigartoi toutōn men katēgorēteon, tous de nomous epaineteon.
So the laws hold the place of a line and a rule and a square; and of those who use them, some direct their own life excellently, while others, choosing the easiest things instead of the best, go outside their straightness. These, then, are to be accused, and the laws praised.
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Summary: The laws are a straight rule; those who stray from them, not the laws, are to blame.
- The section begins with the end of a word divided between this section and the last in the digital text; it is translated in 12.84.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.85 (Raeder, 320; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-85). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.86Raeder, 320
οὐδὲ γὰρ εἴ τιρ ἄριστος ἰατρὸς ἐπιτάξοι τῷ κάμνοντι τῶν μὲν μεταλαβεῖν, τῶν δὲ μὴ μετασχεῖν παντελῶς, εἶτα ἐκεῖνος, ὀλίγον τῶν ἰατρικῶν ὑποθηκῶν φροντίσας, τῆς θεραπείας προτιμήσοι τὴν ἡδονὴν καὶ τὰ ἀπειρημένα φαγὼν ἢ πιὼν αὐξήσοι τὴν νόσον, τὸν ἰατρὸν ὡς ἐπίβουλον αἰτιώμεθα. ἐκ γὰρ δὴ τῆς τοῦ κάμνοντος ἀκρασίας, οὐκ ἐκ τῆς τοῦ ξυμβουλεύσαντος προμηθείας ἡ νόσος ηὐξήθη.
oude gar ei tir aristos iatros epitaxoi tǭ kamnonti tōn men metalabein, tōn de mē metaschein pantelōs, eita ekeinos, oligon tōn iatrikōn hypothēkōn phrontisas, tēs therapeias protimēsoi tēn hēdonēn kai ta apeirēmena phagōn ē piōn auxēsoi tēn noson, ton iatron hōs epiboulon aitiōmetha. ek gar dē tēs tou kamnontos akrasias, ouk ek tēs tou xymbouleusantos promētheias hē nosos ēuxēthē.
For if an excellent doctor should order a patient to take some things and not to touch others at all, and the patient, caring little for the doctor's advice, should prefer pleasure to the cure and, by eating or drinking what was forbidden, increase the disease, we do not blame the doctor as a plotter. For the disease increased through the patient's lack of self-control, not through the foresight of the one who advised him.
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Summary: A patient who disobeys his doctor, not the doctor, is to blame for his worsening illness.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.86 (Raeder, 320; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-86). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.87Raeder, 321
᾿Ταῦτα τοίνυν ξυλλογισάμενοι καὶ ὅσα τούτοις προσόμοια, τὸν μὲν τῶν σωτηρίων νόμων νομοθέτην ὑμνήσατε, αὐτῶν δὲ τῶν νόμων θαυμάσατε τὸ βιωφελὲς καὶ ὀνήσιμον᾽ καὶ οἷον θεωροί τινες τῶν ἀξιεπαίνων ἀγώνων γινόμενοι, τοὺς μὲν τούτων ἀνακηρύξατε φύλακας, κατὰ δὲ τῶν παραβεβηκότων μὴ τὴν ἴσην ἐξενέγκητε ψῆφον.
᾿Tauta toinyn xyllogisamenoi kai hosa toutois prosomoia, ton men tōn sōtēriōn nomōn nomothetēn hymnēsate, autōn de tōn nomōn thaumasate to biōpheles kai onēsimon᾽ kai hoion theōroi tines tōn axiepainōn agōnōn ginomenoi, tous men toutōn anakēryxate phylakas, kata de tōn parabebēkotōn mē tēn isēn exenenkēte psēphon.
Having reasoned out these things, then, and all that is like them, praise the Lawgiver of the saving laws and admire the life-giving usefulness of the laws themselves; and, like spectators at praiseworthy contests, proclaim those who keep them as victors, and do not bring the same verdict against all who have transgressed.
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Summary: The Greeks should praise the Lawgiver and his laws, honour those who keep them, and judge transgressors with distinction.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.87 (Raeder, 321; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-87). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.88Raeder, 321
οὐ γὰρ ἴσῳ γε σμοπῷ παραβαίνουσιν ἅπαντες. πολλὰ γὰρ δὴ καὶ παρὰ γνώμην πλημμελοῦμεν οἱ ἄνθρωποι "αὶ ταῦτα καὶς αὐτοί γὲ οἵ νόμοι καλοῦσιν. ἀκούσια. καὶ γὰρ δὴ κατὰ κυνός τις ἢ ἄλλου του λίθον. ἀκοντίσας, τοῦ μὲν᾽ διήμαρτεν, ἄνθρωπὸν δὲ κατέκτεινε᾽ τοιαῦτα γὰρ δὴ πάθη καὶ ᾿Ηρόδοτος ἄδει.
ou gar isǭ ge smopǭ parabainousin hapantes. polla gar dē kai para gnōmēn plēmmeloumen hoi anthrōpoi "ai tauta kais autoi ge hoi nomoi kalousin. akousia. kai gar dē kata kynos tis ē allou tou lithon. akontisas, tou men᾽ diēmarten, anthrōpon de katekteine᾽ toiauta gar dē pathē kai ᾿Ērodotos adei.
For not all transgress with the same purpose. We human beings commit many faults even against our will, and these the laws themselves call involuntary. For someone throws a stone at a dog or something else, misses it, and kills a man; Herodotus too sings of such misfortunes.
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Summary: Not all transgressions are alike: some are involuntary, like accidental killings, which Herodotus too records.
- Compare Herodotus 1.35–45 (Adrastus's accidental killings).
Extrabiblical texts: Herodotus, Hist. 1.35-45 (Herodotus, Histories; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.88 (Raeder, 321; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-88). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.89Raeder, 321
πολλάκις δέ τις πέλεκυν ἔχων καὶ ξύλα τέμνων κατά τινος "παριόντος ἄκων ἠκμόντισε τὸν σίδηρον. τούτοις καὶ τοῖς τοιούτοις, ὡς ἀκουσίοις, ξυγγνώμην οἱ νόμοι προσνέμουσιν. καὶ τὰ ἑκούσια δὲ οὐ σμικρὰν ἔχει διαφοράν. οὐδὲ γὰρ ἴσον ὑπό τινος ὀργῆς καὶ θυμοῦ τινα παροξυνόμενον ἐνὸν πατάξαι τὸν πέλας καὶ παραπέμψαι τῷ θανάτῳ, οὐ τοῦτο προβουλευσάμενον οὐδὲ ἐπὶ τούτῳ γε παίσαντα, καὶ τὸ ἐξ ἐπιβουλῆς καὶ λόχου καὶ προνοίας τυρεῦσαν τὸν θάγατον᾽ τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἦν ἀκρασίας θυμοῦ, τὸ ὃὲ πονηρίας ἐσχάτης καὶ τὸ μὲν οὐχ ὅλον, τὸ δὲ ὅλον τῆς γνώμης.
pollakis de tis pelekyn echōn kai xyla temnōn kata tinos "pariontos akōn ēkmontise ton sidēron. toutois kai tois toioutois, hōs akousiois, xyngnōmēn hoi nomoi prosnemousin. kai ta hekousia de ou smikran echei diaphoran. oude gar ison hypo tinos orgēs kai thymou tina paroxynomenon enon pataxai ton pelas kai parapempsai tǭ thanatǭ, ou touto probouleusamenon oude epi toutǭ ge paisanta, kai to ex epiboulēs kai lochou kai pronoias tyreusan ton thagaton᾽ to men gar ēn akrasias thymou, to hoe ponērias eschatēs kai to men ouch holon, to de holon tēs gnōmēs.
And often someone holding an axe and cutting wood unwillingly sends the iron flying at a passer-by. To these and such as involuntary the laws grant pardon. And voluntary acts too differ not a little. For it is not the same thing, when provoked by some anger and rage, to strike one's neighbour and send him to his death, without having planned it beforehand or struck for that purpose, and to contrive death by plot and ambush and forethought. For the one was a lack of control over anger, the other extreme wickedness; and the one is not wholly of the will, the other wholly.
Deut 19:5 (allusion, medium confidence) · Exod 21:13 (allusion, low confidence)
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Summary: The law pardons involuntary acts such as a flying axe-head, and among voluntary acts distinguishes killing in sudden anger from premeditated murder.
- Deut 19:5 (the axe-head); compare Exod 21:12–14. Repeated words (dittography) and stray letters in the digital text have been removed.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (repeated words (dittography) in the digital text; stray letters and a line number): πατάξαι πατάξαι τὸν τὸν πέλας πέλας καὶ καὶ παραπέμψαι παραπέμψαι τῷ τῇ θανάτῳ, ῳ, οὐ οὐ τοῦτο → πατάξαι τὸν πέλας καὶ παραπέμψαι τῷ θανάτῳ, οὐ τοῦτο; γνώμη ἐδ ᾿ ὦ ω; οἰ ς » Ὁμ1]9. → γνώμης..
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.89 (Raeder, 321; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-89). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.90Raeder, 321
οὕτω καὶ ταῖς τῆς ἡδυπαθείας οὐχ ἅπαντες ὁμοίως οἱ ἄνθρῶποι περιπίπτουσιν ἁμαρτίαις" ἀλλ᾽ οἵ μὲν ἥκιστα περιερ- 'ψαζόμενοι τὰ εὐπρεπῆ τῶν σωμάτων περιπείρονται, ἔσθ᾽ ὅπῃ δὲ καὶ ὁρῶσιν ἐξαπίνης καὶ καταδουλοῦνται τῷ πάθει, τοῦ λογισμοῦ τῆς ἡγεμονίας ἐξισταμένου᾽ οἱ δὲ βίον ἔχουσι τὸ τῇ τοιᾷδε θεωρίᾳ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἑστιᾶν.
houtō kai tais tēs hēdypatheias ouch hapantes homoiōs hoi anthrōpoi peripiptousin hamartiais" all᾽ hoi men hēkista perier- 'psazomenoi ta euprepē tōn sōmatōn peripeirontai, esth᾽ hopę̄ de kai horōsin exapinēs kai katadoulountai tǭ pathei, tou logismou tēs hēgemonias existamenou᾽ hoi de bion echousi to tę̄ toiąde theōrią tous ophthalmous hestian.
So too not all people fall alike into the sins of pleasure. Some, without in the least going about looking, are pierced by comely bodies; sometimes they see suddenly and are enslaved to the passion, reason being driven from its command; but others make it their life to feast their eyes on such sights.
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Summary: Some fall into lust suddenly and unwillingly, others make a life of seeking it.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letters and marks): ἔσθ᾽ Ν " δὲ ν᾿ ῶ»ν " ὃ, λ -" “᾿ ὅπῃ → ἔσθ᾽ ὅπῃ.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.90 (Raeder, 321; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-90). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.91Raeder, 322
καὶ οἷ μὲν οὐδὲ σιτίων οὐδὲ ποτῶν. ἀπολαύουσιν ἀδεῶς, ἡττῶνταν δὲ ὕμως παλαίοντες, ἐπειδὴ παλαίειν ἐπιστημόνως οὐ βούλον- ται οἱ δὲ ὑπερμαξῶσι καὶ τρυφῶσιν καὶ πᾶν εἶδος ἐπινοοῦσι χλιδῆς καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ὀρέξεις διερεθίξζουσι παντοδαπαῖς ἐπινοίαις, καὶ μέντοι καὶ σβεννυμένων ἀσχάλλουσιν.
kai hoi men oude sitiōn oude potōn. apolauousin adeōs, hēttōntan de hymōs palaiontes, epeidē palaiein epistēmonōs ou boulon- tai hoi de hypermaxōsi kai tryphōsin kai pan eidos epinoousi chlidēs kai tas allas orexeis dierethixzousi pantodapais epinoiais, kai mentoi kai sbennymenōn aschallousin.
And some do not even enjoy food and drink without fear, and yet are defeated though they wrestle, since they will not wrestle skilfully; while others gorge and live in luxury and devise every kind of indulgence, and stir up their other appetites with all sorts of devices, and are even vexed when these are quenched.
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Summary: Some struggle against appetite and lose; others feed and inflame it deliberately.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.91 (Raeder, 322; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-91). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.92Raeder, 322
ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν τοσαύτη τῶν παρανομούντων διαφορά, οὐ χρεὼν ἅπασι χαλεπαίνειν ὁμοίως, ἀλλὰ τοὺς μὲν προδήλως τὸν συώδη βίον ἀσπαζομένους μυσάττεσθαι, τοῖς δὲ ἄλλοις καὶ ξυμβουλεύειν καὶ παραινεῖν καὶ χεῖρα ὀρέγειν καὶ θεραπεύειν ἐπιμελῶς καὶ προσφέρειν τῆς ὑγιείας τὰ φάρμακα" ἐκείνους δέ, ἤν τοι ἐπιμένωσι θηριωδῶς βιοτεύοντες, καὶ περιόντας θρηνήσωμεν παὶ ἀποθανοῦσι τὸ Σαρδαναπάλου ἐπίγραμμα.
epeidē toinyn tosautē tōn paranomountōn diaphora, ou chreōn hapasi chalepainein homoiōs, alla tous men prodēlōs ton syōdē bion aspazomenous mysattesthai, tois de allois kai xymbouleuein kai parainein kai cheira oregein kai therapeuein epimelōs kai prospherein tēs hygieias ta pharmaka" ekeinous de, ēn toi epimenōsi thēriōdōs bioteuontes, kai periontas thrēnēsōmen pai apothanousi to Sardanapalou epigramma.
Since, then, the difference among transgressors is so great, one should not be equally harsh with all, but should loathe those who openly embrace the swinish life, while for the others one should give counsel, exhort, stretch out a hand, treat them carefully and bring them the medicines of health. As for those, if they persist in living like beasts, let us lament them while they live, and when they die let us apply to them the epitaph of Sardanapalus.
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Summary: Weak sinners should be helped and healed, while the openly swinish should be lamented and given Sardanapalus's epitaph.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.92 (Raeder, 322; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-92). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.93Raeder, 322
προσενέγκωμεν. τῷ γὰρ δὴ ἐκείνου ἐπεγέγραπτο τάφῳ᾽.»τόσσ᾽ ἔχω, ὅσσ᾽ ἔφαγον καὶ ἐφύβρισα καὶ μετ᾽ ἔρωτος τέρπν᾽ ἔπαθον᾽ τὰ δὲ πολλὰ καὶ ὄλβια πάντα λέλειπται.
prosenenkōmen. tǭ gar dē ekeinou epegegrapto taphǭ᾽.»toss᾽ echō, hoss᾽ ephagon kai ephybrisa kai met᾽ erōtos terpn᾽ epathon᾽ ta de polla kai olbia panta leleiptai.
For on his tomb was inscribed: 'I have as much as I ate and wantonly enjoyed, and the delights I experienced with love; but all those many happy things are left behind.
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Summary: Theodoret quotes the epitaph of Sardanapalus.
- The epitaph of Sardanapalus is quoted by several ancient authors (e.g. Diodorus Siculus 2.23.3).
Extrabiblical texts: Diodorus Siculus, 2.23.3 (Diodorus Siculus, Library of History; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.93 (Raeder, 322; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-93). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.94Raeder, 322
χαὶ γὰρ ἐγὼ σποδός εἶμι, Νίνου μεγάλης βασιλεύσας. ἀλλὰ γὰρ καὶ τοῦτο ψευδῶς οἱ γεγραφότες ἐπέγραψαν. οὐ γὰρ ἔχει ὁ τελευτήσας, ἅπερ ἔφαγε καὶ ἔπιεν, ἀλλ᾽ εἰς τὴν δυσὦδη φθορὰν ἐκεῖνα κεχώρηκεν᾽ ἔχεν δὲ μόνον τοῦ παρανόμου βίου τὴν δυσοσμίαν, ἣ διηνεκῶς τὴν ψυχὴν ἀλγύνει καὶ ἀνιᾷ, ξυνειδυῖαν ἑαυτῇ τὰ κάκιστα καὶ μεμνημένην ὧν παρανόμως εἰργάσατο.
chai gar egō spodos eimi, Ninou megalēs basileusas. alla gar kai touto pseudōs hoi gegraphotes epegrapsan. ou gar echei ho teleutēsas, haper ephage kai epien, all᾽ eis tēn dysōdē phthoran ekeina kechōrēken᾽ echen de monon tou paranomou biou tēn dysosmian, hē diēnekōs tēn psychēn algynei kai anią, xyneiduian heautę̄ ta kakista kai memnēmenēn hōn paranomōs eirgasato.
For I too am ash, who ruled as king over great Ninus.' But those who wrote this inscribed it falsely too. For the dead man does not have what he ate and drank; those things went into foul-smelling corruption; he has only the stench of his lawless life, which pains and grieves the soul for ever, conscious as it is of the worst deeds and remembering what it did against the law.
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Summary: Sardanapalus's epitaph is false: the dead keep nothing of their pleasures, only the stench of a lawless life that torments the soul.
- Ninus is Nineveh.
Extrabiblical texts: Diodorus Siculus, 2.23.3 (Diodorus Siculus, Library of History; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.94 (Raeder, 322; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-94). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.95Raeder, 322
Ταύτην ὑμῖν, ὦ ἄνδρες, δευτέραν καὶ δεκάτην διάλεξιν προσενήνοχα, καὶ ἐπέδειξα, τίνα μὲν περὶ Θεοῦ καὶ ὕλης καὶ κτίσεως, καὶ μέντοι καὶ ἀρετῆς καὶ κακίας τοῖς τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἔδοξε φιλοσόφοις, καὶ τίνα ἡμᾶς οἱ θεῖοι ἐξεσταίδευσαν λόγοι, καὶ ὡς ἔσβεσταν μὲν τὰ ἐκείνων ἅπαντα καὶ παραδέδοται. τῷ ξόφῳ τῆς λήθης, ἀνθεῖ δὲ ταῦτα καὶ τέθηλε καὶ. πολλὰς ἔχει καθ' ἑκάστην καὶ πόλιν καὶ χώραν ἄκροατῶν μυριάδας καὶ διδασκάλους, τὴν μὲν Πλατωνικὴν εὐέπειαν οὐκ ἔχοντας, τὴν δὲ τῆς ἀληθείας ἰατρείαν προσφέροντας᾽ καὶ τῶν μὲν ψευδωνύμων θεῶν τὸν πλάνον ἐληλαμένον, τοῦ δὲ ἡμετέρου Σωτῆρος τὰ δόγματα πηρυττόμενα.
Tautēn hymin, ō andres, deuteran kai dekatēn dialexin prosenēnocha, kai epedeixa, tina men peri Theou kai hylēs kai ktiseōs, kai mentoi kai aretēs kai kakias tois tōn Hellēnōn edoxe philosophois, kai tina hēmas hoi theioi exestaideusan logoi, kai hōs esbestan men ta ekeinōn hapanta kai paradedotai. tǭ xophǭ tēs lēthēs, anthei de tauta kai tethēle kai. pollas echei kath' hekastēn kai polin kai chōran akroatōn myriadas kai didaskalous, tēn men Platōnikēn euepeian ouk echontas, tēn de tēs alētheias iatreian prospherontas᾽ kai tōn men pseudōnymōn theōn ton planon elēlamenon, tou de hēmeterou Sōtēros ta dogmata pēryttomena.
This twelfth discourse I have offered you, men, and I have shown what the philosophers of the Greeks thought about God and matter and creation, and also about virtue and vice, and what the divine words have taught us; and how all their teachings have been extinguished and handed over to the darkness of oblivion, while these flower and flourish and have in every city and country many myriads of hearers and teachers, who do not have Platonic eloquence but offer the healing of truth; and how the error of the falsely named gods has been driven out, and the doctrines of our Saviour are proclaimed.
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Summary: Theodoret concludes: the Greek philosophers' teachings are forgotten, while the Gospel flourishes everywhere and the false gods have been driven out.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.95 (Raeder, 322; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-95). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from Raeder's Greek text (Teubner 1904; OCR by this project); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.
12.96Raeder, 323
τοῦτο γὰρ δὴ καὶ ὁ Πορφύριος, ἐν οἷς καθ' ἡμῶν ξυνέγραψεν;. εἴρημεν' νυνὶ δέ φησι ο,θαυμάξουσιν, εἰ τοσούτων ἐτῶν κατείληφε νόσος τὴν πόλιν, Ἀσχληπιοῦ μὲν ἐπιδημίας καὶ τῶν ἄλλων θεῶν οὐκέτι οὔσης᾽ Ἰησοῦ γὰρ τιμωμένου, οὐδε
touto gar dē kai ho Porphyrios, en hois kath' hēmōn xynegrapsen?. eirēmen' nyni de phēsi o,thaumaxousin, ei tosoutōn etōn kateilēphe nosos tēn polin, Aschlēpiou men epidēmias kai tōn allōn theōn ouketi ousēs᾽ Iēsou gar timōmenou, oude
For Porphyry too said this in what he wrote against us: 'But now,' he says, 'they wonder that disease has held the city for so many years, there being no longer any visitation of Asclepius and the other gods; for since Jesus has been honoured, no one has perceived any
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Summary: Porphyry himself complained that since Jesus has been honoured the gods, Asclepius among them, no longer help the city.
- Porphyry, Against the Christians (fragment), also quoted by Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel 5.1.10.
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry, Porphyry, Chr. (Porphyry, Against the Christians (fragments); quotation); Eusebius, Praep. ev. 5.1.10 (Preparation for the Gospel; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.96 (Raeder, 323; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-96). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from Raeder's Greek text (Teubner 1904; OCR by this project); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.
12.97Raeder, 323
μιᾶς δημοσίας τις θεῶν ὠφελείας ἤσθετο ταῦτα ὁ πάντων ἡμῖν ἔχθιστορ Πορφύριος εἴρηκε, καὶ ἀναφανδὸν ὧμολόγησεν, ὡς πιστευόμενος ὁ Ἰησοῦς φρούδους ἀπέφηνε τοὺς θεούς, καὶ μετὰ τὸν σταυρὸν καὶ τὸ σωτήριον πάθος οὐκέτι φενακίζει τοὺς ἀνθρώπους Ἡσκληπιός, οὐδὲ ἄλλος τις τῶν καλουμένων θεῶν. ἅπαντα γὰρ αὐτῶν τὸν ὁρμαθόν, οἷόν τινὰς νυκτερίδας, τῷ σκότῳ παρέπεμψεν ἀνατεῖλαν τὸ φῶς.
mias dēmosias tis theōn ōpheleias ēstheto tauta ho pantōn hēmin echthistor Porphyrios eirēke, kai anaphandon hōmologēsen, hōs pisteuomenos ho Iēsous phroudous apephēne tous theous, kai meta ton stauron kai to sōtērion pathos ouketi phenakizei tous anthrōpous Hēsklēpios, oude allos tis tōn kaloumenōn theōn. hapanta gar autōn ton hormathon, hoion tinas nykteridas, tǭ skotǭ parepempsen anateilan to phōs.
public help from the gods.' This Porphyry, the most hostile of all to us, said, and openly confessed that Jesus, being believed in, made the gods vanish, and that after the cross and the saving passion Asclepius no longer deceives people, nor any other of the so-called gods. For the light, having risen, sent their whole string, like bats, into the darkness.
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Summary: Porphyry's complaint concedes that faith in Jesus after the cross has put the gods to flight, like bats before the light.
- Porphyry, Against the Christians (fragment, end).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray bracket): ] ἅπαντα → ἅπαντα.
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry, Porphyry, Chr. (Porphyry, Against the Christians (fragments); quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.97 (Raeder, 323; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-97). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.98Raeder, 323
ταύτης καὶ ὑμᾶς τῆς ἀκτῖνος μεταλαχεῖν ἀξιῶ" τοῦδε γὰρ χάριν καὶ τὸν πόνον ἀνεδεξάμην. καὶ οἷόν τινας βοτάνας πανταχόθεν ξυλλέξας, τὸ ἀλεξίκαχον ὑμῖν κατεσκεύασα φάρμαπον.
tautēs kai hymas tēs aktinos metalachein axiō" toude gar charin kai ton ponon anedexamēn. kai hoion tinas botanas pantachothen xyllexas, to alexikachon hymin kateskeuasa pharmapon.
I ask you too to share in this ray; for it was for this that I took on the labour. And having gathered herbs, as it were, from every side, I have prepared for you the medicine that wards off evil.
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Summary: Theodoret ends by inviting the Greeks to share the light and offering his work as a healing remedy.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 12.98 (Raeder, 323; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/12-98). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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