Cure of Greek Maladies 9.64–10.58
Greek text: Raeder.English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Chapter 9
9.64Raeder, 238
Θαυμάσατε, ὦ ἄνδρες, τοῦ σκυτοτόμου τὴν γλῶτταν καὶ τὸν διὰ ταύτης φθεγξάμενον προσκυνήσατε. εἰ δὲ βούλεόθε, καὶ τοὺς φονιποὺς καταμάθετε νόμους. ὁ μὲν γὰρ φιλόσοφος οὐδὲ τὸν ἀπεχτονότα πατέρα τὴν ἴσην ὑποσχεῖν τιμωρίαν ἐκέλευσεν, ὁ δὲ Σωτὴρ ὁ ἡμέτερος καὶ λοιδορίαν κολάζει παρὰ καιρὸν γινομένην καὶ θυμὸν ἀδίκως κινούμενον᾽ ηνᾶς γὰρ ἔφη..ὃ ὀργιξόμενος τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ εἰμῇ ἔνοχος ἔσται τῇ κρίσει" ὃς δ᾽ ἂν εἴπῃ “Ῥχκά, ἔνοχος ἔσται τῷ συνεδρίῳ᾽ ὃς δ᾽ ἂν εἴπῃ Μωρέ, ἔνοχος ἔσται εἰς
Thaumasate, ō andres, tou skytotomou tēn glōttan kai ton dia tautēs phthenxamenon proskynēsate. ei de bouleothe, kai tous phonipous katamathete nomous. ho men gar philosophos oude ton apechtonota patera tēn isēn hyposchein timōrian ekeleusen, ho de Sōtēr ho hēmeteros kai loidorian kolazei para kairon ginomenēn kai thymon adikōs kinoumenon᾽ ēnas gar ephē..ho orgixomenos tǭ adelphǭ autou eimę̄ enochos estai tę̄ krisei" hos d᾽ an eipę̄ “Rhchka, enochos estai tǭ synedriǭ᾽ hos d᾽ an eipę̄ Mōre, enochos estai eis
Admire, gentlemen, the tongue of the leather-worker, and worship him who spoke through it. If you wish, learn the laws about murder too. The philosopher did not order even the one who killed his father to undergo equal punishment; but our Savior punishes even untimely abuse and anger unjustly moved: 'Everyone,' he said, 'who is angry with his brother without cause will be liable to judgment; whoever says "Raca" will be liable to the council; whoever says "Fool" will be liable to
Matt 5:22 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ punishes even anger and insult.
- The quotation of Matt 5:22 ends in 9.65.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 9.64 (Raeder, 238; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/9-64). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.65Raeder, 239
τὴν γέενναν τοῦ πυρός.“ καὶ λόγων δὲ ἀργῶν εὐθύνας ἀπαιτήσειν ἠπείλησεν. καὶ οὐ μόνον τοὺς φίλους εὐεργετεῖν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ἐκέλευσεν εὖ ποιεῖν",,ἀγαπᾶτες γὰρ ἔφη “τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ὑμῶν καὶ εὔχεσθε ὑπὲρ τῶν διωκόντων ὑμᾶς.“ εἶτα καὶ δείκνυσιν ἄθλον τὴν τῶν ἀγωνιζομένων ὑπερβαῖνον ἀξίαν᾽ ἔφη γάρ᾽ οοἵνα γένησθε υἱοὶ τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς᾽ ὅτι ἀνατέλλει τὸν ἥλιον αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ πονηροὺς καὶ ἀγαθοὺς καὶ βρέχει ἐπὶ δικαίους καὶ ἀδίκους.
tēn geennan tou pyros.“ kai logōn de argōn euthynas apaitēsein ēpeilēsen. kai ou monon tous philous euergetein, alla kai tous echthrous ekeleusen eu poiein",,agapates gar ephē “tous echthrous hymōn kai euchesthe hyper tōn diōkontōn hymas.“ eita kai deiknysin athlon tēn tōn agōnizomenōn hyperbainon axian᾽ ephē gar᾽ ooina genēsthe huioi tou patros hymōn tou en ouranois᾽ hoti anatellei ton hēlion autou epi ponērous kai agathous kai brechei epi dikaious kai adikous.
the Gehenna of fire.' He also threatened to demand an account of idle words. And he ordered doing good not only to friends but also to enemies: 'Love your enemies,' he said, 'and pray for those who persecute you.' Then he shows a prize surpassing the worth of those who contend: 'so that you may become sons of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.'
Matt 5:22 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 12:36 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 5:44–45 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ commands love of enemies.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 9.65 (Raeder, 239; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/9-65). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.66Raeder, 239
καὶ περὶ ὕρκων δὲ νόμους τιθείς. καὶ αὐτοὺς ἀπαγορεύει. τοὺς ὕρκους, ἀποχρῆν λέγων τὸ »γαϊ καὶ τὸ οὔ“ πρὸς ] τὴν τῶν λεγομένων βεβαίωσιν. καὶ τὸν ἀκτήμονα δὲ βίον τελειότατον ἔφη" οοὗς γὰρ ἄν“ φησι »μὴ ἀποτάξηται πᾶσι τοῖς ὑπάρχουσιν αὐτοῦ, οὐ δύναταί μοι εἶναι μαθητής.“ ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως καὶ οὕτως ἀκριβῆ πολιτείαν νομοθετῶν, οὐδέν τι τερπνὸν κατὰ τόνδε τὸν βίον ἢ θυμῆρες δώσειν ὑπέσχετο, ἀλλὰ πενίαν καὶ ταλαιπωρίαν καὶ λοιδοφίας καὶ μάστιγας καὶ διαφόρους σφαγάς" »κἐν τῷ πόσμῳς γὰρ ἔφη..»θλίψιν ἔχετε καί" (μακάριοί ἐστε, ὅταν ὀνειδίσώσιν ὑμᾶς καὶ διώξωσι καὶ εἴπωσι πᾶν πονηρὸν φῆμα καθ' ὑμῶν ψευδόμενοι ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ" χαίρετε καὶ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε,
kai peri hyrkōn de nomous titheis. kai autous apagoreuei. tous hyrkous, apochrēn legōn to »gaï kai to ou“ pros ] tēn tōn legomenōn bebaiōsin. kai ton aktēmona de bion teleiotaton ephē" oous gar an“ phēsi »mē apotaxētai pasi tois hyparchousin autou, ou dynatai moi einai mathētēs.“ all᾽ homōs kai houtōs akribē politeian nomothetōn, ouden ti terpnon kata tonde ton bion ē thymēres dōsein hypescheto, alla penian kai talaipōrian kai loidophias kai mastigas kai diaphorous sphagas" »ken tǭ posmǭs gar ephē..»thlipsin echete kai" (makarioi este, hotan oneidisōsin hymas kai diōxōsi kai eipōsi pan ponēron phēma kath' hymōn pseudomenoi heneken emou" chairete kai agalliasthe,
And laying down laws about oaths, he forbids oaths themselves, saying 'yes' and 'no' suffice to confirm what is said. And he called the life without possessions most perfect: 'For whoever does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.' Yet, though legislating so strict a way of life, he promised to give nothing pleasant or agreeable in this life, but poverty, hardship, insults, scourges, and various deaths: 'In the world,' he said, 'you have tribulation'; and 'Blessed are you when they reproach you and persecute you and say every evil word against you falsely for my sake; rejoice and be glad,
Matt 5:37 (allusion, high confidence) · Luke 14:33 (quotation, high confidence) · John 16:33 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 5:11–12 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ forbids oaths, commends poverty, and promises persecution.
- The quotation of Matt 5:12 ends in 9.67.
Topics: Ethics, Persecution
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 9.66 (Raeder, 239; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/9-66). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.67Raeder, 240
ὅτι ὁ μισθὸς ὑμῶν πολὺς ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.“ χαὶ τοὺς μὲν πόνους καὶ κινδύνους ἐπέδειξε, τὰ δὲ βραβεῖα καὶ τοὺς στεφάνους μετὰ τοῦ βίου τὸ τέλος ἀποδώσειν ὑπέσχετο. παὶ ἐν ἑτέρῳ δὲ χωρίῳ φησίν",.εἰ ἐμὲ ἐδίωξαν, καὶ ὑμᾶς διώξουσιν᾽ εἰ τὸν ἐμὸν λόγον ἐτήρησαν, καὶ τὸν ὑμέτερον τηρήσουσιν. καὶ πάλιν",,»εἰ τὸν οἰκοδεσπότην Βεελζεβοὺλ ἐπε-. κάλεσαν, πόσῳ μᾶλλον τοὺς οἰκειαποὺς αὐτοῦς
hoti ho misthos hymōn polys en tois ouranois.“ chai tous men ponous kai kindynous epedeixe, ta de brabeia kai tous stephanous meta tou biou to telos apodōsein hypescheto. pai en heterǭ de chōriǭ phēsin",.ei eme ediōxan, kai hymas diōxousin᾽ ei ton emon logon etērēsan, kai ton hymeteron tērēsousin. kai palin",,»ei ton oikodespotēn Beelzeboul epe-. kalesan, posǭ mallon tous oikeiapous autous
for your reward is great in heaven.' He showed the labors and dangers, but promised to give the prizes and crowns after the end of life. And in another place he says: 'If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.' And again: 'If they called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more his household?'
Matt 5:12 (quotation, high confidence) · John 15:20 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 10:25 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ promised rewards after life and persecution in it.
Topics: Persecution, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 9.67 (Raeder, 240; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/9-67). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.68Raeder, 240
Οἱ μὲν δὴ νόμοι τοιοῦτοι" ἄξιον. δὲ ἀληθῶς καὶ τοὺς θεσπεσίους ἄνδρας ἐκείνους θαυμάσαι καὶ τοὺς ἐκείνοις πεπιστευκότας. τοιῶνδε γὰρ λόγων ἀκούοντες καὶ οὔτε πλοῦτον οὔτε δυναστείαν οὔτε σώματος ῥώμην παρὰ τοῦ πεηληκότος δεξάμενοι, ἀλλὰ μακραῖς παὶ ταύταις οὐ φαινομέναις ἐπαγγελίαις πεπιστευκότες, καὶ τοὺς πόνους ἠσπάσαντο καὶ τῶν κινδύνων ἠνέσχοντο καὶ τὴν οἰκουμένην περινοστήσαντες τοῖς ἔθνεσι προσήνεγκαν τὰ μαθήματα.
Hoi men dē nomoi toioutoi" axion. de alēthōs kai tous thespesious andras ekeinous thaumasai kai tous ekeinois pepisteukotas. toiōnde gar logōn akouontes kai oute plouton oute dynasteian oute sōmatos rhōmēn para tou peēlēkotos dexamenoi, alla makrais pai tautais ou phainomenais epangeliais pepisteukotes, kai tous ponous ēspasanto kai tōn kindynōn ēneschonto kai tēn oikoumenēn perinostēsantes tois ethnesi prosēnenkan ta mathēmata.
Such are the laws; and it is truly worth admiring those divine men and those who believed them. For hearing such words, and receiving from the one who called them neither wealth nor power nor bodily strength, but believing long-term promises that did not appear, they embraced the labors, endured the dangers, and traveling round the world brought the teachings to the nations.
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Summary: The apostles believed unseen promises and spread the gospel.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 9.68 (Raeder, 240; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/9-68). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.69Raeder, 240
οὐδὲν δὲ ἧττον καὶ τοὺς δεξαμένους εὐφημῆσαν προσήκει, ὅτι παρὰ τοῖς κήρυξιν οὐδὲν περιφανὲς ὁρῶντες οὐδὲ περίβλεπτον, ἀλλὰ γλώττας ἁλιευτικάς τε καὶ σκυτοτομιμὰς καὶ πιενίαν ἐσχάτην (οὐδὲ γὰρ τῆς ἀναγκαίας ηὐπόρουν τροφῆς᾽ πόθεν γὰρ δὴ ταύτην εἶχον, οἵ γὲ καὶ τὸ μεριμνᾶν περὶ τῆς αὔθίον νόμῳ κεκωλυμένοι:), οὐ μόνον τοῖς λεγομένοις ἐπίστευσαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν παρ᾽ αὐτοῖς πολιτευομένων κατεφρόγησαν νόμων καὶ τῶν ἐθῶν τῶν πατρῴων ἐξέστησαν καὶ μετὰ χινδύνων καὶ αὐτοὶ τὸν λοιπὸν ἐβίωσαν χρόνον, ὁμοίως μὲν τοῖς διδασκάλοις κηρύττοντες, ὁμοίως δὲ παροινούμενοι καὶ προπηλακιζόμενοι καὶ διὰ τῶν ἴσων “χλυδωνίων ὁδεύοντερ.
ouden de hētton kai tous dexamenous euphēmēsan prosēkei, hoti para tois kēryxin ouden periphanes horōntes oude periblepton, alla glōttas halieutikas te kai skytotomimas kai pienian eschatēn (oude gar tēs anankaias ēuporoun trophēs᾽ pothen gar dē tautēn eichon, hoi ge kai to merimnan peri tēs authion nomǭ kekōlymenoi:), ou monon tois legomenois episteusan, alla kai tōn par᾽ autois politeuomenōn katephrogēsan nomōn kai tōn ethōn tōn patrǭōn exestēsan kai meta chindynōn kai autoi ton loipon ebiōsan chronon, homoiōs men tois didaskalois kēryttontes, homoiōs de paroinoumenoi kai propēlakizomenoi kai dia tōn isōn “chlydōniōn hodeuonter.
No less is it fitting to praise those who received them, because, seeing nothing splendid or remarkable in the heralds, but the tongues of fishermen and leather-workers and extreme poverty (for they did not even have plenty of necessary food; for how could they, who were forbidden by law to worry about the morrow?), they not only believed what was said, but despised the laws under which they lived, departed from ancestral customs, and themselves lived the rest of their time with dangers, preaching like their teachers, abused and insulted like them, and traveling through the same storms.
Matt 6:34 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Those who accepted the gospel also gave up their customs and faced danger.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 9.69 (Raeder, 240; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/9-69). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.70Raeder, 241
τοσοῦτο δὲ σέβας τῶν μέχρνυ θανάτου χεκινδυνευκότων καὶ εἶχον ἐκεῖνοι, καὶ μὲν δὴ καὶ ἔχουσιν ἅπαντες, ὡς τὰς ἐκείνων γε θήκας θησαυροὺς ὑπολαμβάνειν ἀγαθῶν παντοδαπῶν χορηγούς.
tosouto de sebas tōn mechrny thanatou chekindyneukotōn kai eichon ekeinoi, kai men dē kai echousin hapantes, hōs tas ekeinōn ge thēkas thēsaurous hypolambanein agathōn pantodapōn chorēgous.
And they had, and indeed all now have, such reverence for those who faced danger to the point of death, that they think their tombs treasures supplying all kinds of goods.
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Summary: The tombs of those who died for the faith are revered.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 9.70 (Raeder, 241; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/9-70). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.71Raeder, 241
ἀθρήσατε δὴ οὖν, ὦ ἄνδρες, τῶνδε τῶν νόμων τὴν δύναμιν. τούτους γὰρ καὶ Ῥωμαῖοι καὶ Πέρσαι καὶ οἱ τῆς τούτων ἡγεμονίας ἔξω τελοῦντες καταλῦσαι λίαν ἐσπουδακότες, τὴν μὲν οἰκείαν ἀσθένειαν ἔδειξαν, τὴν δὲ τούτων ἰσχὺν ἐκδηλοτέραν ἀπέφηναν. τοῖς δὲ 4υκούργου καὶ Σόλωνος οὐδεὶς ἐπολέμησε “νόμοις, [ ἀλλ᾽ αὐτόματον κατελύθησαν.
athrēsate dē oun, ō andres, tōnde tōn nomōn tēn dynamin. toutous gar kai Rhōmaioi kai Persai kai hoi tēs toutōn hēgemonias exō telountes katalysai lian espoudakotes, tēn men oikeian astheneian edeixan, tēn de toutōn ischyn ekdēloteran apephēnan. tois de 4ykourgou kai Solōnos oudeis epolemēse “nomois, [ all᾽ automaton katelythēsan.
Behold, then, gentlemen, the power of these laws. For the Romans, the Persians, and those outside their rule, eagerly trying to destroy them, showed their own weakness and made the strength of these more manifest. But no one made war on the laws of Lycurgus and Solon; they dissolved of themselves.
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Summary: Persecutors failed to destroy the gospel; Greek laws died on their own.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 9.71 (Raeder, 241; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/9-71). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.72Raeder, 241
καὶ οὔτε ὁ Πύθιος οὔτε ἢ Πολιὰς τοὺς ὑπὸ σφῶν τεθέντας ἐκράτυναν νόμους. εὐθὺς δέ γε “Ῥωμαίων προστεταχότων ἐσβέσθησαν. δειξάτω τις ὑμῶν, ὦ ἄνδρες, ἕνα γοῦν Σπαρτιάτην ὑπὲρ τῶν “υκούργου νόμῶν ἀποθανεῖν ἀνασχόμενον, ἢ ἕνα ᾿4θηναῖον ὑπὲρ τῶν Σόλωνος, ἢ ὑπὲρ τῶν Ζαλεύκου Δοκρόν, ἢ Κρῆτα ὑπὲρ τῶν Μίνωος" ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἄν τις ὑμῶν τοῦτό γε δείξειεν" ἡμεῖς δὲ δείκνυμεν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἁλιευτικῶν καὶ σκυτοτομικῶν νόμων πολλὰς καὶ ἀνδρῶν καὶ γυναικῶν ἀνασχομένας ἀποθανεῖν μυριάδας᾽ καὶ μάρτυρες οἱ τῶν μαρτύρων σηκοὶ καὶ πόλεις λαμπρύνοντες καὶ χώρας φαιδρύνοντες καὶ ξένοις ὁμοῦ καὶ ἐγχωρίοις τὴν ὠφέλειαν προσφέροντες.
kai oute ho Pythios oute ē Polias tous hypo sphōn tethentas ekratynan nomous. euthys de ge “Rhōmaiōn prostetachotōn esbesthēsan. deixatō tis hymōn, ō andres, hena goun Spartiatēn hyper tōn “ykourgou nomōn apothanein anaschomenon, ē hena ᾿4thēnaion hyper tōn Solōnos, ē hyper tōn Zaleukou Dokron, ē Krēta hyper tōn Minōos" all᾽ ouk an tis hymōn touto ge deixeien" hēmeis de deiknymen hyper tōn halieutikōn kai skytotomikōn nomōn pollas kai andrōn kai gynaikōn anaschomenas apothanein myriadas᾽ kai martyres hoi tōn martyrōn sēkoi kai poleis lamprynontes kai chōras phaidrynontes kai xenois homou kai enchōriois tēn ōpheleian prospherontes.
And neither the Pythian nor the Protectress of the city strengthened the laws laid down by them; as soon as the Romans commanded, they were quenched. Let one of you show, gentlemen, a single Spartan who endured death for the laws of Lycurgus, or one Athenian for Solon's, or a Locrian for Zaleucus's, or a Cretan for Minos's; but none of you could show this; while we show many myriads of men and women who endured death for the laws of the fishermen and the leather-worker; and the shrines of the martyrs are witnesses, brightening cities, gladdening countries, and bringing benefit to strangers and natives alike.
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Summary: No one died for Greek laws, but myriads died for the gospel.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 9.72 (Raeder, 241; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/9-72). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.73Raeder, 241
ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν καὶ τῶν νόμων καὶ τῶν νομοθετῶν κατάδηλον ἐπ ξυγκρίσεως γεγένηται τὸ διάφορον, καὶ τὰ μὲν ὥφθη λογισμῶν ἀνθρωπίνων εὑρήματα, τὰ δὲ θεόσδοτα καὶ σωτήρια, δέξασθε, ὦ ἄνδρες, τὰ θεσπέσια δῶρα καὶ τὸν μεγαλόδωρον καὶ φιλόδωρον μὴ ἀτυμάσητε χορηγόν. εἴσεσθε δὲ αὐτῶν τὸ θεοπρεπὲς ἀκριβέστερον, εἰ τούτοις ἐντύχητε, τὴν πονηρὰν τῶν ψυχῶν ἐξελάσαντες πρόληψιν.
epeidē toinyn kai tōn nomōn kai tōn nomothetōn katadēlon ep xynkriseōs gegenētai to diaphoron, kai ta men hōphthē logismōn anthrōpinōn heurēmata, ta de theosdota kai sōtēria, dexasthe, ō andres, ta thespesia dōra kai ton megalodōron kai philodōron mē atymasēte chorēgon. eisesthe de autōn to theoprepes akribesteron, ei toutois entychēte, tēn ponēran tōn psychōn exelasantes prolēpsin.
Since, then, by comparison the difference of the laws and the lawgivers has become plain, the one shown to be inventions of human reasonings, the other God-given and saving, receive, gentlemen, the divine gifts and do not dishonor the generous and gift-loving Giver. You will know their godliness more accurately if you read them, having driven out the wicked prejudice of your souls.
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Summary: Theodoret urges readers to accept the God-given laws of the gospel.
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 9.73 (Raeder, 241; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/9-73). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 10
10.1Raeder, 242
Οἱ τυραννίδος ἐρῶντες τὴν οὐδαμόθεν αὐτοῖς προσήκουσαν ἁρπάξουσι δυναστείαν, ἀλλὰ τὸ μὲν τῆς βασιλείας περιτίθενται σχῆμα, τὴν ἁλουργίδα, τὸν στέφανον, τὸν θρόψον, τὸ ζεῦγος, τοὺς δορυφόρους, τὸν δὲ βασιλικὸν ξηλοῦν οὐκ ἐθέλουσι τρόπον. οὐ γὰρ ἤπιοι ποθοῦσι καλεῖσθαι πατέρες, ἀλλὰ δεσπόται πικροί, οὐδὲ πηδεμόνες φιλάνθρωποι, ἀλλ᾽ ἡγεμόνες παγχάλεποι. τῷ τοι πολλάκις μὲν αὐτοὺς οἵ ἔννομον χαταλύουσι βασιλεῖς, τοὺς ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν παρανομουμένους οἰκτείροντες᾽ πολλάκις δὲ καὶ στρατιῶται καὶ δῆμοι γυμνοῦσι τῆς δυναστείας, τὸ θράσος οὐ φέροντες.
Hoi tyrannidos erōntes tēn oudamothen autois prosēkousan harpaxousi dynasteian, alla to men tēs basileias peritithentai schēma, tēn halourgida, ton stephanon, ton thropson, to zeugos, tous doryphorous, ton de basilikon xēloun ouk ethelousi tropon. ou gar ēpioi pothousi kaleisthai pateres, alla despotai pikroi, oude pēdemones philanthrōpoi, all᾽ hēgemones panchalepoi. tǭ toi pollakis men autous hoi ennomon chatalyousi basileis, tous hyp᾽ autōn paranomoumenous oikteirontes᾽ pollakis de kai stratiōtai kai dēmoi gymnousi tēs dynasteias, to thrasos ou pherontes.
Those who love tyranny seize a power that in no way belongs to them; they put on the trappings of kingship, the purple, the crown, the throne, the chariot, the bodyguards, but will not imitate the royal manner. For they do not long to be called gentle fathers but harsh masters, not kindly guardians but very grievous rulers. That is why lawful kings often depose them, pitying those they wrong; and often soldiers and peoples strip them of power, unable to bear their insolence.
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Summary: Tyrants seize power and are overthrown for their cruelty.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.1 (Raeder, 242; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.2Raeder, 242
τοῦτο καὶ δεδράκασν καὶ πεπόνθασιν οἱ παμπόνηροι δαίμονεφ. τὴν γὰρ δὴ τάξιν καταλιπόντες, ἣν ἔλαχον, καὶ τὴν ἡμερωτάτην τοῦ πεπονηκότος ἀποδράσαντες δεσποτείαν, ἥρπαόαν μὲν τὴν τυραννίδα, τὸ δὲ θεῖον ὄνομα σεσυληκότες, θεοὺς σφᾶς αὐτοὺς προσηγύρευσαν καὶ τὸ θεῖον σέβας σφίσι προσφέρειν τῶν ἀνθρώπων τοὺς ἀνοήτους ἀνέπεισαν᾽ εἶτα κρατῦναι τὴν δυναστείαν σπουδάζοντες, καὶ προγινώσκειν τὰ μέλλοντα καὶ προλέγειν ἐνεανιδύσαντο; ταύτῃ μάλιστα τοὺς εὐαλώτους ἀνθρώπους παραπρουόμενοι.
touto kai dedrakasn kai peponthasin hoi pamponēroi daimoneph. tēn gar dē taxin katalipontes, hēn elachon, kai tēn hēmerōtatēn tou peponēkotos apodrasantes despoteian, hērpaoan men tēn tyrannida, to de theion onoma sesylēkotes, theous sphas autous prosēgyreusan kai to theion sebas sphisi prospherein tōn anthrōpōn tous anoētous anepeisan᾽ eita kratynai tēn dynasteian spoudazontes, kai proginōskein ta mellonta kai prolegein eneanidysanto? tautę̄ malista tous eualōtous anthrōpous paraprouomenoi.
This the utterly wicked demons both did and suffered. For leaving the rank they received and fleeing the gentlest lordship of their Maker, they seized the tyranny; and having stolen the divine name, they called themselves gods and persuaded foolish human beings to offer them divine worship; then, eager to strengthen their power, they boasted of foreknowing and foretelling the future, by this especially deceiving easily caught human beings.
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Summary: The demons usurped the name of gods and claimed to foretell the future.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.2 (Raeder, 242; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.3Raeder, 242
διά τοι τοῦτο πανταχοῦ γῆς τὰ τῆς ἀπάτης κατεσκεύασαν ἐργαστήρια καὶ τὰς μαντικὰς ἐπενόησαν μαγγανείας, τοὺς ἀλευρομάντεις καὶ στερνομάντεις καὶ νεπυομάντεις καὶ τὴν Κασταλίας
dia toi touto pantachou gēs ta tēs apatēs kateskeuasan ergastēria kai tas mantikas epenoēsan manganeias, tous aleuromanteis kai sternomanteis kai nepyomanteis kai tēn Kastalias
For this reason they set up workshops of deception everywhere on earth and devised the trickeries of divination: diviners by meal, by the breast, and by the dead, and the Castalian
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Summary: The demons set up oracles and divination everywhere.
- The sentence continues in 10.4.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.3 (Raeder, 242; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.4Raeder, 243
πηϊγὴν καὶ τὸ Κολοφώνιον ῥεῖθρον καὶ τὴν ἱερὰν δρῦν καὶ τὸ Δωδωναῖον χαλκεῖον καὶ τὸν Κιρραῖον τρίποδα καὶ τὸν Θεσπρώτιον λέβητα, καὶ ἐν “Διβύῃ μὲν τὸ μαντεῖον τὸ ᾿άμμωνος, ἐν δέ γε Δωδώνῃ τὸ τοῦ Διός, ἐν δὲ Βραγχίδαις καὶ Δήλῳ καὶ 4ελφοῖς καὶ Κολοφῶνι τοῦ Κλαρίου καὶ Πυθίου καὶ 4ηλίου καὶ “ιδυμαίου, καὶ ἐν “Δεβαδίᾳ μὲν Τροφωνίου, ἐν Ὡρωπῷ δὲ ᾿Αμφιάρεω, ἐν δὲ τῇ Τυρρηνῶν καὶ Χαλδαίων τῆς νεκυομαντείας τὰ ξοφώτατα ἄντρα, καὶ ἀλλαχοῦ μὲν ᾿Αμφιλόχου, ἀλλαχοῦ δὲ Γλαύκου καὶ ἕτέρῶθι Μόψου καὶ ἄλλων τινῶν δυσωνύμων ἀνθρώπων. ὅτι δὲ παμπονήρων ἦν δαιμόνων ταῦτα χρηστήρια τὴν θείαν προσηγορίαν σεσυλημκότων, ἱκανὴ μὲν τεμμηριῶσαν καὶ ἡ γῶν αὐτοῖς ἐπικειμένη σιγή. μετὰ γὰρ δὴ τὴν τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἐπιφάνειαν ἀπέδρασαν οἱ τήνδε τὴν ἐξαπάτην τοῖς ἀνθρώποις προσφέροντες, τοῦ θείου φωτὸς οὐκ ἐνεγκόντες τὴν αἴγλην.
pēïgēn kai to Kolophōnion rheithron kai tēn hieran dryn kai to Dōdōnaion chalkeion kai ton Kirraion tripoda kai ton Thesprōtion lebēta, kai en “Dibyę̄ men to manteion to ᾿ammōnos, en de ge Dōdōnę̄ to tou Dios, en de Branchidais kai Dēlǭ kai 4elphois kai Kolophōni tou Klariou kai Pythiou kai 4ēliou kai “idymaiou, kai en “Debadią men Trophōniou, en Hōrōpǭ de ᾿Amphiareō, en de tę̄ Tyrrēnōn kai Chaldaiōn tēs nekyomanteias ta xophōtata antra, kai allachou men ᾿Amphilochou, allachou de Glaukou kai heterōthi Mopsou kai allōn tinōn dysōnymōn anthrōpōn. hoti de pamponērōn ēn daimonōn tauta chrēstēria tēn theian prosēgorian sesylēmkotōn, hikanē men temmēriōsan kai hē gōn autois epikeimenē sigē. meta gar dē tēn tou Sōtēros hēmōn epiphaneian apedrasan hoi tēnde tēn exapatēn tois anthrōpois prospherontes, tou theiou phōtos ouk enenkontes tēn aiglēn.
spring, the stream of Colophon, the sacred oak, the bronze cauldron of Dodona, the Cirrhaean tripod, and the Thesprotian basin; in Libya the oracle of Ammon, at Dodona that of Zeus, at Branchidae, Delos, Delphi, and Colophon those of the Clarian, the Pythian, the Delian, and the Didymaean; at Lebadeia that of Trophonius, at Oropus that of Amphiaraus, in the land of the Tyrrhenians and the Chaldeans the darkest caves of necromancy; elsewhere those of Amphilochus, elsewhere of Glaucus, and elsewhere of Mopsus and other ill-named men. That these oracles belonged to utterly wicked demons who stole the divine name, the silence that now lies on them is sufficient proof. For after the appearing of our Savior those who brought this deception to human beings fled, unable to bear the radiance of the divine light.
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Summary: The oracles fell silent after Christ came, proving they were demonic.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.4 (Raeder, 243; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.5Raeder, 243
μαρτυρεῖ δὲ διαρρήδην καὶ Πλούταρχος ὁ Χαιρωνεύς, ἀνὴρ οὐχ Ἕβραϊος, ἀλλ᾽ Ἕλλην καὶ τὸ γένος καὶ τὴν γλῶτταν, καὶ μέντοι καὶ ταῖς “Ἑλληνικαῖς δόξαις δεδουλωμένος καὶ τὸν τῶν χρηστηρίων ἀκριβῶς ἐπιστάμενος πλάνον. οὐ πόρρω γάρ που τῆς “Χαιρωνείας Δελφοὶ καὶ «Δεβαδία καὶ ᾿φφρωπός, ἀλλ᾽ δμοροί τε καὶ πλησιόχωροι. οὗτος πολλὰ μὲν καὶ ἄλλα ξυνέγραψε (πολυμαθὴς γὰρ ὁ ἀνὴρ καὶ μάλα πολύπειρος), ξυνέγραψε δὲ καὶ περὶ τῶν μαντειῶν τινα καὶ τόδε τὸ ξύγγραμμα Πρρὶ τῶν ἐπλελοιπότων χρηστηρίων ἐκάλεσεν’ ἐν τοίνυν τούτῳ πρὸς πολλοῖς ἄλλοις
martyrei de diarrēdēn kai Ploutarchos ho Chairōneus, anēr ouch Hebraïos, all᾽ Hellēn kai to genos kai tēn glōttan, kai mentoi kai tais “Hellēnikais doxais dedoulōmenos kai ton tōn chrēstēriōn akribōs epistamenos planon. ou porrō gar pou tēs “Chairōneias Delphoi kai «Debadia kai ᾿phphrōpos, all᾽ dmoroi te kai plēsiochōroi. houtos polla men kai alla xynegrapse (polymathēs gar ho anēr kai mala polypeiros), xynegrapse de kai peri tōn manteiōn tina kai tode to xyngramma Prri tōn epleloipotōn chrēstēriōn ekalesen’ en toinyn toutǭ pros pollois allois
Plutarch of Chaeronea bears plain witness, a man not a Hebrew but a Greek in race and language, enslaved to Greek opinions, and accurately knowing the error of the oracles. For Delphi, Lebadeia, and Oropus are not far from Chaeronea, but bordering and nearby. He wrote many other things (for the man was very learned and experienced), and he wrote also about oracles, and called this work On the Obsolescence of Oracles. In it, among many other things,
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Summary: Plutarch, a Greek near Delphi, wrote on the failure of oracles.
- The sentence continues in 10.6.
Extrabiblical texts: Plutarch, Def. orac. (Plutarch; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.5 (Raeder, 243; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.6Raeder, 244
καὶ ταῦτα ἔφη"..τὸ μὲν οὖν ἐφεστάναι τοῖς χρηστηρίοις μὴ θεούς, οἷς ἀπηλλάχθαι τῶν περὶ γῆν προσῆκόν ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ δαίμονας ὑπηρέτας θεῶν, οὐ δοκεῖ μοι κακῶς ἀξιοῦσθαι" τὸ δὲ τοῖς δαίμοσι τούτοις, μονονουχὶ δραχμὴν λαμβάνοντας ἔκ τῶν ἐπῶν τῶν Ἐμπεδοκλέους, ἁμαρτίας παὶ ἄτας καὶ πλάνας ἐπιφέρειν, τελευτῶντας δὲ καὶ θανάτους ὥσπερ ἀνθρώπων ὑποτίθεσθαν θρασύτερον ἡγοῦμαι καὶ βαρβαρικώτε
kai tauta ephē"..to men oun ephestanai tois chrēstēriois mē theous, hois apēllachthai tōn peri gēn prosēkon estin, alla daimonas hypēretas theōn, ou dokei moi kakōs axiousthai" to de tois daimosi toutois, mononouchi drachmēn lambanontas ek tōn epōn tōn Empedokleous, hamartias pai atas kai planas epipherein, teleutōntas de kai thanatous hōsper anthrōpōn hypotithesthan thrasyteron hēgoumai kai barbarikōte
he said this: 'That not gods, whom it befits to be freed from earthly things, but demons, servants of the gods, preside over oracles does not seem to me badly held; but to take, as it were, a drachma's worth from the verses of Empedocles and impute to these demons sins, ruin, and wanderings, and finally to suppose deaths for them as for human beings, I think too bold and too barbarous.'
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Summary: Plutarch says demons, not gods, preside over oracles.
- Plutarch, On the Obsolescence of Oracles 418e.
Extrabiblical texts: Plutarch, Def. orac. 418e (Plutarch; quotation); Empedocles (Empedocles (fragments); allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.6 (Raeder, 244; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.7Raeder, 244
ρον ταῦτα οὐ προφήτης ἡμέτερος οὐδ᾽ ἀπόστολος εἴρηκεν, οὐδέ τις ἄλλος τῶν ἐκείνοις πεπιστευκότων καὶ τὰ ἐκείνων δοξάζειν ἐσπουδακότων, ἀλλ᾽ ἀνὴρ πᾶσαν μὲν ἠσνημένος παιδείαν, τῇ δὲ παλαιᾷ τῶν φιλοσόφων ἐξαπάτῃ δουλεύων᾽ οὗτος ἔφη, πρῶτον μέν, οὐκ εἶναι τοὺς χφῶντας θεούς, ἀλλὰ δαίμονας, ἔπειτα δέ, τοὺς τούτων νεωκόρους καὶ ὑπὸ τούτων κατειλημμένους καὶ ἀναβεβαχχδυμένους ἐπὶ μισθῷ χρησμολογεῖν» προλέγειν δὲ οὐδὲν ἀληθές, ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τούτων, ὧν τὸν ἀτμὸν καὶ τὴν ἐπίπνοιαν ἔχειν γεανιεύονται, πολλὰ δεινὰ καὶ χαλεπὰ προαγγέλλειν, οὐ μόνον ἄτας καὶ πλάνας, ἀλλὰ καὶ θανάτους ἀνθρώποις παραπλησίως, καὶ τὰ ἔπη δὲ οὐκ ἔκ τινος θειασμοῦ καὶ κατακωχῆς λέγειν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ τῆς Ἐμπεδοκλέους συλῶντας πονήσεως.
ron tauta ou prophētēs hēmeteros oud᾽ apostolos eirēken, oude tis allos tōn ekeinois pepisteukotōn kai ta ekeinōn doxazein espoudakotōn, all᾽ anēr pasan men ēsnēmenos paideian, tę̄ de palaią tōn philosophōn exapatę̄ douleuōn᾽ houtos ephē, prōton men, ouk einai tous chphōntas theous, alla daimonas, epeita de, tous toutōn neōkorous kai hypo toutōn kateilēmmenous kai anabebachchdymenous epi misthǭ chrēsmologein» prolegein de ouden alēthes, alla kai peri toutōn, hōn ton atmon kai tēn epipnoian echein geanieuontai, polla deina kai chalepa proangellein, ou monon atas kai planas, alla kai thanatous anthrōpois paraplēsiōs, kai ta epē de ouk ek tinos theiasmou kai katakōchēs legein, all᾽ ek tēs Empedokleous sylōntas ponēseōs.
No prophet or apostle of ours said this, nor anyone else who believed them and strove to hold their views, but a man trained in all learning and enslaved to the ancient deception of the philosophers. He said, first, that those who give oracles are not gods but demons; then, that their temple wardens, seized and driven to Bacchic frenzy by them, give oracles for pay and foretell nothing true, but also announce many terrible and harsh things about those whose vapor and inspiration they boast of having, not only ruin and wanderings but deaths, as for human beings; and that they speak the verses not from any divine inspiration and possession, but stealing them from the poetry of Empedocles.
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Summary: A pagan, not a Christian, says oracles are given by demons for pay.
- Theodoret's paraphrase of Plutarch somewhat sharpens his meaning.
Extrabiblical texts: Plutarch, Def. orac. 418e (Plutarch; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.7 (Raeder, 244; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.8Raeder, 244
καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς δὲ τὴν αὐτὴν ἔχει διάνοιαν" λέγει γάρφ᾽..μ»αἱ περὶ μὲν
kai ta hexēs de tēn autēn echei dianoian" legei garph᾽..m»hai peri men
And what follows has the same sense; for he says: 'And about
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Summary: Introduction to a further quotation of Plutarch.
- A short fragment; the quotation follows in 10.9.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.8 (Raeder, 244; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.9Raeder, 245
τῶν μυστικῶν, ἐν οἷς [ τὰς μεγίστας ἐμφάσεις λαβεῖν ἔστι τῆς περὶ δαιμόνων ἀληθείας, εὔστομά μοι κείσθω, καθ' Ἡρόδοτον᾽ ἑορτὰς δὲ καὶ θυσίας, ὥσπερ ἡμέρας ἀποφράδας καὶ σκυθρωπάς, ἐν αἷς ὠμοφαγίαι καὶ διασπασμοί, νηστεῖαί τε καὶ ποπετοί, πολλαχοῦ δὲ πάλιν αἰσχρολογίαι πρὸς ἱεροῖς μανίαι τε ἄλλαν ὀρινομένων ῥιψαύχενι σὺν κλόνῳ, θεῶν μὲν οὐδενί, δαιμόνων δὲ πονηρῶν ἀποτροπῆς ἕνεκα φήσαιμ᾽ ἂν ἐπιτελεῖσθαι, παραμυθίας τῆς παλαιᾶς ποιουμένους ἀνθρωποθυσίας.“ ἐν μὲν οὖν τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν ἐξητασμένοις ἔφη μὴ εἶναι τὰ μαντεῖα θεῶν, ἀλλὰ δαιμόνων" ἐνταῦθα δὲ τούτους καὶ πονηροὺς προσηγόρευσε, τεημηρίοις ἐναργεστάτοις τοῖς ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν δρωμένοις χρησάμενος. τίνι γάρ που προσήκουσιν ὠμοφαγίαι καὶ διασπασμοὶ αἰσχρορημοσύναι τε καὶ αἰσχρουργίαι καὶ μανίαι ὀρινομένων καὶ ῥιυψαυχενούντῶν σὺν κλόνῳ, ἢ δαίμοσι παμπονήροις, τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων πημαίνουσι γένος; οἱ πάλαι μέν, οἷα δὴ ἀλάστορες, ταῖς τῶν τρισαθλίων ἀνθρώπων σφαγαῖς ἐπετέρποντο, ἐπειδὴ δὲ βδελυξαμένους εἶδον τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τὴν ἀνδροφονίαν ἐκείνην καὶ μιαιφονίαν τὴν αὐτοῖς ἀξιέραστον καὶ παυσαμένους τοῦ μύσους, τὰς διαμαστιγώσεις καὶ ὠμοφαγίας καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἐπενόησαν τελετάς.
tōn mystikōn, en hois [ tas megistas emphaseis labein esti tēs peri daimonōn alētheias, eustoma moi keisthō, kath' Hērodoton᾽ heortas de kai thysias, hōsper hēmeras apophradas kai skythrōpas, en hais ōmophagiai kai diaspasmoi, nēsteiai te kai popetoi, pollachou de palin aischrologiai pros hierois maniai te allan orinomenōn rhipsaucheni syn klonǭ, theōn men oudeni, daimonōn de ponērōn apotropēs heneka phēsaim᾽ an epiteleisthai, paramythias tēs palaias poioumenous anthrōpothysias.“ en men oun tois emprosthen exētasmenois ephē mē einai ta manteia theōn, alla daimonōn" entautha de toutous kai ponērous prosēgoreuse, teēmēriois enargestatois tois hyp᾽ autōn drōmenois chrēsamenos. tini gar pou prosēkousin ōmophagiai kai diaspasmoi aischrorēmosynai te kai aischrourgiai kai maniai orinomenōn kai rhiypsauchenountōn syn klonǭ, ē daimosi pamponērois, to tōn anthrōpōn pēmainousi genos? hoi palai men, hoia dē alastores, tais tōn trisathliōn anthrōpōn sphagais epeterponto, epeidē de bdelyxamenous eidon tous anthrōpous tēn androphonian ekeinēn kai miaiphonian tēn autois axieraston kai pausamenous tou mysous, tas diamastigōseis kai ōmophagias kai tas allas epenoēsan teletas.
the mystic rites, in which one can get the greatest glimpses of the truth about demons, let my lips be sealed, as Herodotus says; but festivals and sacrifices, like unlucky and gloomy days, in which there are eating of raw flesh and tearing apart, fasts and beating of breasts, and again in many places obscene language at the temples and madness of people raving with neck-tossing tumult, I would say are performed to no god, but for the averting of wicked demons, as consolations for the ancient human sacrifice.' In what was examined before he said that the oracles are not of gods but of demons; here he called them wicked too, using as clearest proofs the things done by them. For to whom do eating raw flesh, tearing apart, obscene words and deeds, and the madness of raving and neck-tossing with tumult belong, if not to utterly wicked demons who harm the human race? They of old, like avenging spirits, delighted in the slaughter of thrice-wretched human beings; and when they saw human beings loathe that murder and bloodshed so dear to them and cease from the pollution, they devised the scourgings, the eating of raw flesh, and the other rites.
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Summary: Plutarch says wild rites appease wicked demons in place of human sacrifice.
- Plutarch, On the Obsolescence of Oracles 417c, quoting Herodotus 2.171.
Extrabiblical texts: Plutarch, Def. orac. 417c (Plutarch; quotation); Herodotus, Hist. 2.171 (Herodotus, Histories; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.9 (Raeder, 245; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.10Raeder, 245
καὶ ταῦτα δὲ τοῖς εἰρημένοις πφοστέθεικεν᾽ »Ἱαυσαμένου δὲ τοῦ Ἀμμωνίου, μᾶλλον, ἔφην ἐγώ, περὶ τοῦ μαντείου δίελθε ἡμῖν, ὦ ΚλεόμβροτΕ. μεγάλη γὰρ ἡ παλαιὰ δόξα τῆς ἐκεῖ θειότητος, τὰ δὲ νῦν ἔοικεν ἀπομαραίνεσθαι. τοῦ δὲ Κλεομβρότου σιγῶντος καὶ κάτω βλέποντος, ὁ Δημήτριος οὐδὲν ἔφη δεῖν περὶ τῶν ἐκεῖ πυν-θάνεσθαι καὶ διωπορεῖν, τὴν ἐνταῦθα τῶν χρηστηρίων ἀμαύρωσιν, μᾶλλον δὲ πλὴν ἑνὸς ἢ δυοῖν ἁπάντων ἔπλειψιν
kai tauta de tois eirēmenois pphostetheiken᾽ »Hiausamenou de tou Ammōniou, mallon, ephēn egō, peri tou manteiou dielthe hēmin, ō KleombrotE. megalē gar hē palaia doxa tēs ekei theiotētos, ta de nyn eoiken apomarainesthai. tou de Kleombrotou sigōntos kai katō blepontos, ho Dēmētrios ouden ephē dein peri tōn ekei pyn-thanesthai kai diōporein, tēn entautha tōn chrēstēriōn amaurōsin, mallon de plēn henos ē dyoin hapantōn epleipsin
He added this to what had been said: 'When Ammonius had stopped, "Rather," I said, "tell us about the oracle, Cleombrotus. For the ancient fame of the divinity there was great, but now it seems to be withering." When Cleombrotus was silent and looking down, Demetrius said there was no need to inquire and be puzzled about things there, seeing the obscuring of the oracles here, or rather the failure of all except one or two.'
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Summary: Plutarch's speakers note that almost all oracles have failed.
- Plutarch, On the Obsolescence of Oracles 411e.
Extrabiblical texts: Plutarch, Def. orac. 411e (Plutarch; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.10 (Raeder, 245; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.11Raeder, 246
ὁρῶντας.“ ταῦτα μετὰ τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἐπιφάνειαν ὃ Πλούταρχος ἔγραψεν᾽ τοιγάρτοι ὃ χρόνος δηλοῖ τῆς τῶν χρηστηρίων ἐκλείψεως τὴν αἰτίαν. καὶ ὁ Πορφύριος δὲ ἐν τῷ Περὶ τῆς ἐκ λογίων φιλοσοφίας καὶ ταῦτα ἔφη" »Ἀλλ᾽ ἤδη καὶ τὴν γνῶσιν τῆς φορᾶς τὴν ἀκριβῆ καὶ τὰς ἐκ τούτων διηγήσεις ἀκαταλήπτους εἶναν ἀνθρώποις, καὶ οὐ μόνον τούτοις, ἀλλὰ καί τισι τῶν δαιμόνων᾽ ὅθεν
horōntas.“ tauta meta tēn tou Theou kai Sōtēros hēmōn epiphaneian ho Ploutarchos egrapsen᾽ toigartoi ho chronos dēloi tēs tōn chrēstēriōn ekleipseōs tēn aitian. kai ho Porphyrios de en tǭ Peri tēs ek logiōn philosophias kai tauta ephē" »All᾽ ēdē kai tēn gnōsin tēs phoras tēn akribē kai tas ek toutōn diēgēseis akatalēptous einan anthrōpois, kai ou monon toutois, alla kai tisi tōn daimonōn᾽ hothen
Plutarch wrote this after the appearing of our God and Savior; so the time shows the cause of the failure of the oracles. And Porphyry, in his work On the Philosophy from Oracles, said this too: 'But now accurate knowledge of the motion of the heavens and the accounts from it are incomprehensible to human beings, and not only to them but also to some of the demons; hence
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Summary: Plutarch wrote after Christ; Porphyry admits demons cannot know the future.
- Porphyry, Philosophy from Oracles (Eusebius, Praep. ev. 6.5.1). The quotation ends in 10.12.
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry, Porphyry, Phil. orac. (Porphyry, Philosophy from Oracles (fragments); quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.11 (Raeder, 246; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.12Raeder, 246
καὶ ψεύδονται περὶ πολλῶν ἐρωτηθέντες.“ οὐκοῦν, ὦ ἄνδρες; ἐπειδήπερ ἡμῖν περὶ τῶν ὑμετέρων χρηστηρίων λέγουσιν ἀπιστεῖτε, τῷ ἡμῖν μὲν ἐχθίστῳ, ὑμῖν δὲ προσφιλεστάτῳ πιστεύσατε" ἄσπονδος γὰρ ἡμῶν οὗτος πολέμιος; τὴν προφανῆ κατὰ τῆς εὐσεβείας ἀναδεξάμενος μάχην. οὗτος δὲ ψεύδεσθαι εἴρηκε τοὺς τοῖς καλουμένοις μαντείοις προσεδρεύοντας δαίμονας.
kai pseudontai peri pollōn erōtēthentes.“ oukoun, ō andres? epeidēper hēmin peri tōn hymeterōn chrēstēriōn legousin apisteite, tǭ hēmin men echthistǭ, hymin de prosphilestatǭ pisteusate" aspondos gar hēmōn houtos polemios? tēn prophanē kata tēs eusebeias anadexamenos machēn. houtos de pseudesthai eirēke tous tois kaloumenois manteiois prosedreuontas daimonas.
they also lie when asked about many things.' So, gentlemen, since you disbelieve us when we speak about your oracles, believe the one most hateful to us and dearest to you; for he is our implacable enemy, who took up open battle against godliness. He said that the demons that attend the so-called oracles lie.
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Summary: Porphyry, the Christians' enemy, says oracular demons lie.
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry, Porphyry, Phil. orac. (Porphyry, Philosophy from Oracles (fragments); quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.12 (Raeder, 246; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.13Raeder, 246
ὅτι δὲ τοὺς αὐτοὺς καὶ θεοὺς ὀνομάξει καὶ ἀστρολογίαν μᾶλλον αὐτοῖς ἢ θείαν πρόγνωσιν μαρτυρεῖ, ἐν αὐτῷ δεδήλωμε τῷ ξυγγράμματι᾽ | λέγει δὲ ταῦτα᾽ «ἃ γὰρ λέγουσιν οἱ θεοί, εἴπερ τὰ μεμοιραμένα γινώσκοντες λέγουσιν, ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν ἄστρων φορᾶς δηλοῦσι" καὶ τοῦτο σχεδὸν πάντες ἐξέφηναν οἵ ἀψευδεῖς τῶν θεῶν.“
hoti de tous autous kai theous onomaxei kai astrologian mallon autois ē theian prognōsin martyrei, en autǭ dedēlōme tǭ xyngrammati᾽ | legei de tauta᾽ «ha gar legousin hoi theoi, eiper ta memoiramena ginōskontes legousin, apo tēs tōn astrōn phoras dēlousi" kai touto schedon pantes exephēnan hoi apseudeis tōn theōn.“
That he also names the same beings gods and attributes astrology to them rather than divine foreknowledge he showed in the same work; he says this: 'For what the gods say, if they say it knowing what is fated, they show from the motion of the stars; and nearly all the truthful gods have declared this.'
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Summary: Porphyry says the gods' predictions come from astrology.
- Porphyry, Philosophy from Oracles (Eusebius, Praep. ev. 6.1.2).
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry, Porphyry, Phil. orac. (Porphyry, Philosophy from Oracles (fragments); quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.13 (Raeder, 246; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.14Raeder, 246
ἀλλ᾽ ος ἐνταῦθα θεοὺς προσηγύρευσε, πάλιν ἔφη μὴ εἶναι θεοὺς ἐν τούτῳ γε καὶ οὐκ ἐν ἄλλῳ τῷ ξυγγράμματι" τοῦ γάρ τοι ᾿ἀπόλλωνος τεθειπὼς τὸν χρησμόν, ὃς διδάσκει, πῶς χρὴ τοῖς ἐπιχθονίοις, πῶς δὲ τοῖς ὑποχθονίοις θύειν θεοῖς, καὶ πῶς μὲν τοῖς ἐναλίοις, πῶς δὲ τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις καὶ αἰθερίοις, διξλέγχει τοῦτον ὡς οὐκ εὖ ἔχοντα τὸν χρησμόν,
all᾽ os entautha theous prosēgyreuse, palin ephē mē einai theous en toutǭ ge kai ouk en allǭ tǭ xyngrammati" tou gar toi ᾿apollōnos tetheipōs ton chrēsmon, hos didaskei, pōs chrē tois epichthoniois, pōs de tois hypochthoniois thyein theois, kai pōs men tois enaliois, pōs de tois epouraniois kai aitheriois, dixlenchei touton hōs ouk eu echonta ton chrēsmon,
But those whom he here called gods he said again were not gods, in this very work and not in another. For having set down the oracle of Apollo which teaches how one must sacrifice to the gods on earth and under the earth, to those of the sea and to the heavenly and ethereal ones, he refutes this oracle as not right,
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Summary: Porphyry criticizes an oracle of Apollo on sacrifice.
- The sentence continues in 10.15.
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry, Porphyry, Phil. orac. (Porphyry, Philosophy from Oracles (fragments); allusion); Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.14 (Raeder, 246; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.15Raeder, 247
μὴ χρῆναι φάσκων θεοὺς ὑπολαμβάνειν τοὺς ταῖς διὰ ζῴων θυσίαις χαίροντας᾽ εἶναι γὰρ πάντων ἀδικώτατον τὸ ξῳοθυτεῖν καὶ ἀνόσιον καὶ μυσαρὸν καὶ βλαβερὸν παἱ διὰ τοῦτο μηδὲ θεοῖς προσφιλές. εἶτα τὸν Θεόφραστον εἰσάγει λέγοντα, ὡς θεοῖς οὐχ ἁρμόξουσιν, ἀλλὰ δαίμοσιν, αἵ διὰ ξῴων θυσίαι. πκωμῳδεῖ δὲ καὶ τὰς τῶν παλαιῶν ἀνθρωποθυσίας καὶ διηγεῖται παμπόλλας παρὰ πολλῶν γεγενημένας.
mē chrēnai phaskōn theous hypolambanein tous tais dia zǭōn thysiais chairontas᾽ einai gar pantōn adikōtaton to xǭothytein kai anosion kai mysaron kai blaberon pai dia touto mēde theois prosphiles. eita ton Theophraston eisagei legonta, hōs theois ouch harmoxousin, alla daimosin, hai dia xǭōn thysiai. pkōmǭdei de kai tas tōn palaiōn anthrōpothysias kai diēgeitai pampollas para pollōn gegenēmenas.
saying one must not suppose those who rejoice in animal sacrifices to be gods; for sacrificing animals is the most unjust of all things, unholy, loathsome, and harmful, and for this reason not dear to the gods. Then he introduces Theophrastus saying that sacrifices of animals befit not gods but demons. He also mocks the human sacrifices of the ancients and recounts very many performed by many.
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Summary: Porphyry and Theophrastus say animal sacrifices suit demons, not gods.
- Compare Porphyry, On Abstinence 2.11, 2.36–58.
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry, Abst. 2.36 (Porphyry, On Abstinence from Killing Animals; allusion); Theophrastus (Theophrastus, On Piety; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.15 (Raeder, 247; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.16Raeder, 247
ἔπειτα διδάξας, ὡς οἵ πονηροὶ ταύτας τελεῖσθαι ἐκέλευον δαίμονες, ἐπήγαγεν᾽ οοὐνὸ συνετὸς ἀνὴρ καὶ σώφρων εὐλαβηθήσεταν τοιαύταις χρῆσθαι θυσίαις, δι’ ὧν ἐπισπάσεται πρὸς ἑαυτὸν τοὺς τοιούτους, σπουδάσει δὲ καθαίρειν τὴν ψυχὴν παντο
epeita didaxas, hōs hoi ponēroi tautas teleisthai ekeleuon daimones, epēgagen᾽ oouno synetos anēr kai sōphrōn eulabēthēsetan toiautais chrēsthai thysiais, di’ hōn epispasetai pros heauton tous toioutous, spoudasei de kathairein tēn psychēn panto
Then, having taught that the wicked demons ordered these to be performed, he added: 'A sensible and self-controlled man will be wary of using such sacrifices, by which he will draw such beings to himself, and will be eager to purify his soul in every
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Summary: Porphyry warns that bloody sacrifices draw evil demons.
- Porphyry, On Abstinence 2.43. The quotation ends in 10.17.
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry, Abst. 2.43 (Porphyry, On Abstinence from Killing Animals; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.16 (Raeder, 247; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.17Raeder, 247
ίως᾽ παθαρᾷ γὰρ ψυχῇ οὐκ ἐπιτίθενται.“ ἀλλ᾽ ὁ Πύθιος τἀναντία τῷ Πορφυρίῳ νομοθετεῖ". κελεύει γὰρ τῷ χρησμὸν ἐξαιτοῦντι λύτρα τινὰ δοῦναι τῷ πονηρῷ δαίμονι, χοὰς καὶ πυρὴν καὶ αἷμα κελαινὸν καὶ οἶνον παμμέλανα᾽ καὶ τοιαὖτα ἄττα προσθείς, καὶ τὴν εὐχήν, ἣν δεῖ θύοντα προσἐνεγκεῖν, ἐξεπαίδευσεν᾽ «δαῖμον ἀλιτρονόων ψυχῶν διάδημα γῆξυν, ἐδετι "δ ω θ ὑχῶν ἡμὰ λελογχὼς ἡξρίων ὑπένερθε μυχῶν, χθονίων δ᾽ ἐφύπερθεν. καὶ ταῦτα δὲ ὁ Πορφύριος ἐν αὐτῷ γὲ τῷ ξυγγράμματι τέθεικε, τοῦτον διελέγχων ὡς οὐκ ὄντα θεόν, τὸν δὲ οἰκεῖον ἡρατύνων λόγον, ὡς οὐκ εἰσὶ θεοὶ ταῖς θυσίαις οἵ χαίφοντερ.
iōs᾽ patharą gar psychę̄ ouk epitithentai.“ all᾽ ho Pythios tanantia tǭ Porphyriǭ nomothetei". keleuei gar tǭ chrēsmon exaitounti lytra tina dounai tǭ ponērǭ daimoni, choas kai pyrēn kai haima kelainon kai oinon pammelana᾽ kai toiauta atta prostheis, kai tēn euchēn, hēn dei thyonta prosenenkein, exepaideusen᾽ «daimon alitronoōn psychōn diadēma gēxyn, edeti "d ō th hychōn hēma lelonchōs hēxriōn hypenerthe mychōn, chthoniōn d᾽ ephyperthen. kai tauta de ho Porphyrios en autǭ ge tǭ xyngrammati tetheike, touton dielenchōn hōs ouk onta theon, ton de oikeion hēratynōn logon, hōs ouk eisi theoi tais thysiais hoi chaiphonter.
way; for they do not attack a pure soul.' But the Pythian legislates the opposite of Porphyry. For he orders the one who asks for an oracle to give certain ransoms to the wicked demon, libations, a pyre, dark blood, and black wine; and having added such things, he also taught the prayer that the sacrificer must offer: 'Demon, crown of sinful souls, who has received an allotted portion beneath the airy recesses and above those under the earth.' Porphyry set this down too in the same work, refuting him as not a god and strengthening his own argument that those who rejoice in sacrifices are not gods.
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Summary: The Pythian oracle orders offerings to an evil demon, contradicting Porphyry.
- Porphyry, Philosophy from Oracles (fragment). The oracle's text is partly garbled in the scan and is translated by sense.
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry, Porphyry, Phil. orac. (Porphyry, Philosophy from Oracles (fragments); quotation); Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.17 (Raeder, 247; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.18Raeder, 248
ἵνα δὲ μή τις ὑπολάβῃ ταῦτα ψευδῶς αὐτὸν διαπλάττειν, ὅρκον προτέθειμε τοῦ ξυγγράμματος᾽ ««τοὺς θεούς" γὰρ ἔφη..διαμαρτύρομαι, ὡς οὐδὲν οὔτε προστέθεικα οὔτε ἀφεῖλον τῶν χρησθέντων νοημάτων, εἰ μή τι λέξιν ἡμαρτημένην διώρθωσα ἢ πρὸς τὸ σαφέστερον μεταβέβληκα ἢ τὸ μέτρον ἐλλεῖπον ἀνεπλήρωσα.“ διὰ δὲ τούτων καὶ ἀμαθίαν τοῦ Πυθίου κατηγορεῖ. οὐ γὰρ μόνον τὰς ἡμαρτημένας διώρθωσε λέξεις καὶ σαφεῖς τὰς ἀμφιβόλους ἀπέφηνεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἐπῶν τὴν χωλότητα ἰάσατο, ἣν ὁ Πύθιος διὰ τῶν ὑποφητῶν ἀπεφθέγξατο.
hina de mē tis hypolabę̄ tauta pseudōs auton diaplattein, horkon protetheime tou xyngrammatos᾽ ««tous theous" gar ephē..diamartyromai, hōs ouden oute prostetheika oute apheilon tōn chrēsthentōn noēmatōn, ei mē ti lexin hēmartēmenēn diōrthōsa ē pros to saphesteron metabeblēka ē to metron elleipon aneplērōsa.“ dia de toutōn kai amathian tou Pythiou katēgorei. ou gar monon tas hēmartēmenas diōrthōse lexeis kai sapheis tas amphibolous apephēnen, alla kai tōn epōn tēn chōlotēta iasato, hēn ho Pythios dia tōn hypophētōn apephthenxato.
So that no one may suppose that he invented these things falsely, he set an oath at the head of the work: 'I call the gods to witness,' he said, 'that I have neither added nor taken away anything of the meanings of the oracles, except where I corrected a faulty word, changed something for clarity, or filled out a defective meter.' By this he accuses the Pythian of ignorance too. For he not only corrected faulty words and made ambiguous ones clear, but also healed the lameness of the verses which the Pythian uttered through his interpreters.
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Summary: Porphyry admits correcting the oracles' errors and faulty verse.
- Porphyry, Philosophy from Oracles, preface (Eusebius, Praep. ev. 4.7.1).
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry, Porphyry, Phil. orac. (Porphyry, Philosophy from Oracles (fragments); quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.18 (Raeder, 248; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.19Raeder, 248
καὶ Διογενιανὸς δὲ τῶν χρησμολόγων θεῶν διελέγχει τὸ ψεῦδος᾽ λέγει δὲ οὕτως" τι δὲ ἀποτυγχάνεται τὰ πολλὰ τοῖς παλουμένοις μάντεσιν, ὃ πᾶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων βίος μάρτυς ἂν εἴη, καὶ οὗτοί γε αὐτοὶ οἱ τὴν μαντικὴν ἐπαγγελλόμενοι τέχνην.
kai Diogenianos de tōn chrēsmologōn theōn dielenchei to pseudos᾽ legei de houtōs" ti de apotynchanetai ta polla tois paloumenois mantesin, ho pas tōn anthrōpōn bios martys an eiē, kai houtoi ge autoi hoi tēn mantikēn epangellomenoi technēn.
And Diogenianus too refutes the falsehood of the oracle-giving gods. He speaks thus: 'That the so-called seers mostly fail, the whole life of human beings would bear witness, and these very ones who profess the art of divination.'
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Summary: Diogenianus says seers mostly fail.
- Diogenianus (Eusebius, Praep. ev. 4.3.1).
Extrabiblical texts: Diogenianus (Diogenianus, Against Chrysippus; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.19 (Raeder, 248; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.20Raeder, 248
καὶ μετ᾽ ὀλίγα᾽ νῦν δὲ τοσοῦτον τοῖς εἰρημένοις προσθήσω, | ὅτι μάλιστα μὲν τὸ ἀληθεύειν ποτὲ τοὺς καλουμένους μάντεις ἐν ταῖς προαγορεύσεσιν οὐχ ἐπιστήμης, ἀλλὰ τυχικῆς αἰτίας ἔργον ἂν εἴη. οὐ γὰρ τὸ μηδέποτε τοῦ προκειμένου τυγχάνειν, ἀλλὰ τὸ μὴ πάντοτε μηδ᾽ ὡς ἐπὶ πλεῖστον μηδ᾽ ὡς ἐξ ἐπιστήμης, ὅταν τις καί ποτὲ τυγχάνῃ, τύχης ἔργον καλεῖν προειλήφαμὲν οἵ διξδιληφότες τὰς ὑφ᾽ ἕκαστον ὄνομα τεταγμένας
kai met᾽ oliga᾽ nyn de tosouton tois eirēmenois prosthēsō, | hoti malista men to alētheuein pote tous kaloumenous manteis en tais proagoreusesin ouch epistēmēs, alla tychikēs aitias ergon an eiē. ou gar to mēdepote tou prokeimenou tynchanein, alla to mē pantote mēd᾽ hōs epi pleiston mēd᾽ hōs ex epistēmēs, hotan tis kai pote tynchanę̄, tychēs ergon kalein proeilēphamen hoi dixdilēphotes tas hyph᾽ hekaston onoma tetagmenas
And a little later: 'Now I shall add this much to what has been said: that the so-called seers' sometimes being right in their predictions would be the work not of knowledge but of a chance cause. For we who have distinguished the clear notions assigned to each name have presupposed that it is called the work of chance not when one never hits the mark, but when one does not always, nor for the most part, nor as from knowledge, though one sometimes hits it
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Summary: Diogenianus says seers' occasional successes are by chance.
- Diogenianus (Eusebius, Praep. ev. 4.3.3). The quotation ends in 10.21.
Extrabiblical texts: Diogenianus (Diogenianus, Against Chrysippus; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.20 (Raeder, 248; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.21Raeder, 248
ἐναργεῖς ἐννοίας ἑαυτῶν.“ ὅτι δὲ καὶ ἀναγκαζομένους ὑπ᾽ ἀνθρώπων καὶ τοὺς χρησμολόγους θεοὺς προλέγειν φησὶν ὃ Πορφύριος, ἃ προλέγουσιν, εὐπετὲς τῷ βουλομένῳ μαθεῖν ἐξ ἐκείνου αὐτοῦ τοῦ ξυγγράμματος, ὃ Περὶ τῆς ἐκ λογίων φιλοσοφίας ἐπέγραψε' καὶ αὐτὰς γὰρ ἐκεῖνος παρέθηκε τῶν θεῶν τὰς φωνάς.
enargeis ennoias heautōn.“ hoti de kai anankazomenous hyp᾽ anthrōpōn kai tous chrēsmologous theous prolegein phēsin ho Porphyrios, ha prolegousin, eupetes tǭ boulomenǭ mathein ex ekeinou autou tou xyngrammatos, ho Peri tēs ek logiōn philosophias epegrapse' kai autas gar ekeinos parethēke tōn theōn tas phōnas.
in our own minds.' And that Porphyry says the oracle-giving gods are compelled by human beings to foretell what they foretell, anyone who wishes can easily learn from that very work which he entitled On the Philosophy from Oracles; for he set out the very voices of the gods.
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Summary: Porphyry says the gods are compelled to give oracles.
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry, Porphyry, Phil. orac. (Porphyry, Philosophy from Oracles (fragments); allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.21 (Raeder, 248; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.22Raeder, 249
λέγει γὰρ τὴν Ἑκάτην παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ πληθεῖσαν εἰπεῖν᾽,,ἤλυθον εἰσαΐουσα τεῆς πολυφράδμονος εὐχῆς, ἣν θνητῶν φύσις εὗρε θεῶν ὑποθημοσύνῃσιν.“ καὶ πάλιν αἰτιωμένη τὸν περληκότα «τίνος φησί.,χατίξων, θειοδάμοις Ἕκάτην μὲ᾿ θεὴν ἐκάλεσσας ἀνάγκαις; καὶ ὁ Ἀπόλλων δὲ βοᾷ".»κλῦθί μευ οὐκ ἐθέλοντος, ἐπεί μ᾽ ἐπέδησας ἀνάγκῃ.“ καὶ πάλιν,,»λύετε λοιπὸν ἄνακτα᾽ βροτὸς θεὸν οὐκέτι χωρεῖ.
legei gar tēn Hekatēn par᾽ autou plētheisan eipein᾽,,ēlython eisaïousa teēs polyphradmonos euchēs, hēn thnētōn physis heure theōn hypothēmosynę̄sin.“ kai palin aitiōmenē ton perlēkota «tinos phēsi.,chatixōn, theiodamois Hekatēn me᾿ theēn ekalessas anankais? kai ho Apollōn de boą".»klythi meu ouk ethelontos, epei m᾽ epedēsas anankę̄.“ kai palin,,»lyete loipon anakta᾽ brotos theon ouketi chōrei.
For he says that Hecate, when called by him, said: 'I have come, hearing your eloquent prayer, which the nature of mortals found by the counsels of the gods.' And again, blaming the one who called: 'Needing what have you called me, the goddess Hecate, by god-compelling necessities?' And Apollo cries: 'Hear me against my will, since you have bound me by necessity.' And again: 'Release the lord at last; a mortal no longer contains a god.'
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Summary: Oracles show Hecate and Apollo complaining of being compelled.
- Porphyry, Philosophy from Oracles (Eusebius, Praep. ev. 5.8).
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry, Porphyry, Phil. orac. (Porphyry, Philosophy from Oracles (fragments); quotation); Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.22 (Raeder, 249; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.23Raeder, 249
διὰ δὲ τούτων ἰδεδήλωπεν ὁ Πορφύοιος, καὶ αὐτοὶ δὲ οὗτοι οἵ τὸ θεῖον ὄνομα πεκλοφότες, ὡς δυνατώτεραν αὐτῶν αἱ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐπίνοιαι καὶ αἵ μεμηχανημέναν ἀνάγκαι. καὶ γὰρ ἄνωθεν αὐτοὺς καθέλκουσι καὶ κάτω δεσμοῦσι" καὶ ἀναχωρεῖν οὐκ ἰσχύουσι, πρὶν ἂν οἱ ἄνθρωποι λύσωσιν. καὶ ἄλλα δὲ μυρία τοιαῦτα ἔστιν εὑρεῖν παρὰ τῷδε τῷ ξυγγραφεῖ τὴν ἀσθένειαν αὐτῶν διελέγχοντα.
dia de toutōn idedēlōpen ho Porphyoios, kai autoi de houtoi hoi to theion onoma peklophotes, hōs dynatōteran autōn hai tōn anthrōpōn epinoiai kai hai memēchanēmenan anankai. kai gar anōthen autous kathelkousi kai katō desmousi" kai anachōrein ouk ischyousi, prin an hoi anthrōpoi lysōsin. kai alla de myria toiauta estin heurein para tǭde tǭ xyngraphei tēn astheneian autōn dielenchonta.
By these Porphyry showed, and so did these very beings who stole the divine name, that the devices of human beings and the contrived necessities are more powerful than they. For they drag them down from above and bind them below, and they cannot depart until human beings release them. One can find countless other such things in this writer, exposing their weakness.
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Summary: The 'gods' are weaker than the magicians who compel them.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.23 (Raeder, 249; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.24Raeder, 249
Ὅσης δὲ αὐτῶν καὶ λώβης μεστὰ τὰ μαντεύματα, τούτοις ἄν τις ἐντυχὼν καταμάθον ῥᾳδίως. λιμοῦ γάρ ποτε ᾿4θηναίοις ἐνσκήψαντος, ἔχρησεν ὁ Πύθιος μὴ πρότερον τοῦτον παύσασθαι, πρὶν ἂν ἑπτὰ παρθένους ᾿4θηναῖοι καὶ τοσούτους ἠϊθέους σφάξωσι τῷ ΜΜίνωϊ.
Hosēs de autōn kai lōbēs mesta ta manteumata, toutois an tis entychōn katamathon rhądiōs. limou gar pote ᾿4thēnaiois enskēpsantos, echrēsen ho Pythios mē proteron touton pausasthai, prin an hepta parthenous ᾿4thēnaioi kai tosoutous ēïtheous sphaxōsi tǭ MMinōï.
How full of harm their oracles are one could easily learn by reading them. When a famine once struck the Athenians, the Pythian gave the oracle that it would not stop until the Athenians sacrificed seven maidens and as many youths to Minos.
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Summary: An oracle demanded human sacrifice to Minos.
Extrabiblical texts: Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.24 (Raeder, 249; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-24). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.25Raeder, 249
καὶ τῶν χρησμῶν δὲ τὸ λοξὸν πολλοῖς ὀλέθρους προὐξένησεν. καὶ γὰρ ᾿άριστόμαχος, οὐ νενοηκὼς τὴν οστενύγρην,““ τὸν μὲν πορθμὸν καὶ τὰς τριήρεις κατέλιπε, διὰ δὲ τοῦ ἰσθμοῦ προσβαλὼν τὸν βίον κατέλυσεν. ἔδει δὲ τὸν χρησμολόγον μὴ ζόφῳ τὸν χρησμὸν ξυγκαλύψαι, εἴπερ ἄρα τὸ ἐσόμενον ἤδει᾽ ἀλλὰ κακούργως ἀμφίβολον τὴν πρόρρησιν δέδωκεν. ἵνα μὴ τὸ ψεῦδος εὐφώφατον γένηται.
kai tōn chrēsmōn de to loxon pollois olethrous prouxenēsen. kai gar ᾿aristomachos, ou nenoēkōs tēn ostenygrēn,““ ton men porthmon kai tas triēreis katelipe, dia de tou isthmou prosbalōn ton bion katelysen. edei de ton chrēsmologon mē zophǭ ton chrēsmon xynkalypsai, eiper ara to esomenon ēdei᾽ alla kakourgōs amphibolon tēn prorrēsin dedōken. hina mē to pseudos euphōphaton genētai.
And the obliqueness of the oracles brought ruin to many. For Aristomachus, not understanding 'the narrow water', left the strait and the triremes, and attacking through the isthmus ended his life. The oracle-giver should not have covered the oracle in darkness if he knew what would be; but he villainously gave an ambiguous prediction so that the falsehood might not be easily caught.
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Summary: Ambiguous oracles misled Aristomachus to his death.
Extrabiblical texts: Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.25 (Raeder, 249; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-25). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.26Raeder, 250
ταὐτὸ δὲ τοῦτο καὶ τῷ Κροίσῳ προὐξένησε τὴν ξυμφοράν᾽,, Κροῖσος γὰρ ἔφη,.;Ἄλυν διαβὰς μεγάλην ἀρχὴν καταλύσεις ποτέραν δέ, οὐ δεδήλωκεν, ἤτοι τὴν οἰκείαν ἢ τὴν τῶν πολεμίων, ἵνα καὶ ἡττηθεὶς καὶ γιμήσας μὴ κανηγορήσῃ τοῦ μάντεως. καὶ ταῦτα ὁ Πύθιος δέδρακε πολυτάλαντα παρ᾽ ἐκείνου δεξάμενος δῶρα. δυοῖν τοίνυν θάτερον, ἢ ἀλαζών ἐστιν ἢ ἀχάριστος. ἢ γὰρ ὃ μὴ οἶδεν εἰδέναι βρενθύεται, [ ἢ ἐπιστάμενος ἑκών γε ἀδικεῖ τοὺς θεραπεύειν ἐσπουδαχότας.
tauto de touto kai tǭ Kroisǭ prouxenēse tēn xymphoran᾽,, Kroisos gar ephē,.?Alyn diabas megalēn archēn katalyseis poteran de, ou dedēlōken, ētoi tēn oikeian ē tēn tōn polemiōn, hina kai hēttētheis kai gimēsas mē kanēgorēsę̄ tou manteōs. kai tauta ho Pythios dedrake polytalanta par᾽ ekeinou dexamenos dōra. dyoin toinyn thateron, ē alazōn estin ē acharistos. ē gar ho mē oiden eidenai brenthyetai, [ ē epistamenos hekōn ge adikei tous therapeuein espoudachotas.
The same brought calamity on Croesus too: 'Croesus,' he said, 'crossing the Halys, will destroy a great empire.' Which one he did not make clear, his own or the enemy's, so that, defeated or victorious, he would not accuse the seer. And the Pythian did this having received gifts of many talents from him. One of two things, then: he is either a braggart or ungrateful. For either he boasts of knowing what he does not know, or, knowing, he willingly wrongs those eager to serve him.
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Summary: The ambiguous oracle to Croesus shows the Pythian ignorant or ungrateful.
- Herodotus 1.53.
Extrabiblical texts: Herodotus, Hist. 1.53 (Herodotus, Histories; quotation); Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.26 (Raeder, 250; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.27Raeder, 250
[παραπλήσιον δέ τι δέδραβε καὶ ἐπὶ ᾿Ιουλιανοῦ τὴν ὁρμὴν ἔχοντος κατὰ τῶν ᾿Ασσυρίων᾽ νῦν“ γὰρ ἔφη οὐάντες ὡρμήθημεν θεοὶ παρὰ Θηρὶ ποταμῷ νίκης τρόπαια κομίσασθαι. τούτων ἐγὼ ἡγεμονεύσω,
[paraplēsion de ti dedrabe kai epi ᾿Ioulianou tēn hormēn echontos kata tōn ᾿Assyriōn᾽ nyn“ gar ephē ouantes hōrmēthēmen theoi para Thēri potamǭ nikēs tropaia komisasthai. toutōn egō hēgemoneusō,
(Deleted by the editor.)
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Summary: A passage on an oracle to Julian, which the editor deletes as an addition.
- Raeder prints the whole of 10.27 and the opening of 10.28 (an oracle promising Julian victory over the Assyrians: 'Now we gods have all set out to carry off trophies of victory by the river Ther; and I will lead them, the impetuous war-stirring Ares') in square brackets, marking it as an addition to Theodoret's text; it is left out of the translation here.
Extrabiblical texts: Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.27 (Raeder, 250; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-27). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.28Raeder, 250
θοῦρος πολεμόκλονος ἴάρης.] προσόμοιον δέ τι καὶ ἐπὶ ᾿4θηναίων πεποίημεν. τοῦ γὰρ δὴ Ξέρξου μετὰ πολλῶν μυριάδων ἐπιστρατεύσαντος, ἔδραμον μὲν παρ᾽ αὐτὸν τῶν ᾿4θηναίων οἵ θεωροί᾽ ὃ δὲ τῶν χρησμῶν οὕτως ἤρξατο᾽ »»ὦ μέλεοι, τί χάθησθε“ τοῦτο δὲ διαρρήδην αὐτοῦ διελέγχει τὴν ἄγνοιαν.
thouros polemoklonos iarēs.] prosomoion de ti kai epi ᾿4thēnaiōn pepoiēmen. tou gar dē Xerxou meta pollōn myriadōn epistrateusantos, edramon men par᾽ auton tōn ᾿4thēnaiōn hoi theōroi᾽ ho de tōn chrēsmōn houtōs ērxato᾽ »»ō meleoi, ti chathēsthe“ touto de diarrēdēn autou dielenchei tēn agnoian.
He did something similar in the case of the Athenians too. When Xerxes marched against them with many myriads, the Athenian envoys ran to him; and he began his oracles thus: 'O wretched ones, why do you sit?' This plainly exposes his ignorance.
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Summary: The oracle to Athens before Salamis called the victors wretched.
- Herodotus 7.140. The opening words of the section (the end of the oracle to Julian) are bracketed by the editor as an addition and left out; see 10.27.
Extrabiblical texts: Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); quotation); Herodotus, Hist. 7.140 (Herodotus, Histories; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.28 (Raeder, 250; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-28). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.29Raeder, 251
εἰ γὰρ ἀληθῶς προεγνώκει τὴν νίκην, οὐ μελέους ἂν αὐτοὺς δήπουθεν, ἀλλὰ τρισολβίους ἐκάλεσε" διακοσίας γάρ τοι πρὸς ταῖς χιλίαις τριήρεις καὶ τριαποσίᾳς ἀνδρῶν ἐνίκησαν μυριάδας. νικηφόρον τοίνυν καὶ λίαν ὀνομαστότατοι, ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μέλεοι καὶ τρισάθλιοι, οἵ ἀοίδιμον χαὶ πολυθρύλητον ἀναστήσαντες τρόπαιον.
ei gar alēthōs proegnōkei tēn nikēn, ou meleous an autous dēpouthen, alla trisolbious ekalese" diakosias gar toi pros tais chiliais triēreis kai triaposiąs andrōn enikēsan myriadas. nikēphoron toinyn kai lian onomastotatoi, all᾽ ou meleoi kai trisathlioi, hoi aoidimon chai polythrylēton anastēsantes tropaion.
For if he had truly foreknown the victory, he would surely have called them not wretched but thrice blessed; for they conquered twelve hundred triremes and three hundred myriads of men. So those who set up a celebrated and famous trophy were victorious and very renowned, not wretched and thrice miserable.
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Summary: The Athenians won, so the oracle was wrong.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.29 (Raeder, 251; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-29). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.30Raeder, 251
εἶτα φυγὴν αὖτοῖς παρεγγύησε, τὴν. τῆς πολιούχου προμηνύσας ἀσθένειαν᾽ οὐ δύναταιζ γὰρ ἔφη., Παλλὰς Ὀλύμπιον ἐξιλάσασθαι, λισσομένη πολλοῖσι λόγοις. τούτῳ δὲ ἄντικρυς ἐναντίον τὸ ἐφεξῆς. εἰπὼν γάρ, ὡς ὁ Ζεὺς οὐ πείθεται ποτνιωμένῃ τῇ ᾿θηνᾷ, ὥσπερ μεταμεληθεὶς ἔφη πάλιν" τεῖχος Τριτογενεῖ
eita phygēn autois parengyēse, tēn. tēs poliouchou promēnysas astheneian᾽ ou dynataiz gar ephē., Pallas Olympion exilasasthai, lissomenē polloisi logois. toutǭ de antikrys enantion to ephexēs. eipōn gar, hōs ho Zeus ou peithetai potniōmenę̄ tę̄ ᾿thēną, hōsper metamelētheis ephē palin" teichos Tritogenei
Then he urged flight on them, foretelling the weakness of the city's protectress: 'Pallas cannot,' he said, 'appease Olympian Zeus, though she entreats with many words.' The next words plainly contradict this. For having said that Zeus is not persuaded by Athena's entreaties, as if he had changed his mind, he said again: 'To the Trito-born a wooden wall
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Summary: The oracle contradicted itself about Athena and the wooden wall.
- Herodotus 7.141. The verse ends in 10.31.
Extrabiblical texts: Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); quotation); Herodotus, Hist. 7.141 (Herodotus, Histories; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.30 (Raeder, 251; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-30). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.31Raeder, 251
ξύλινον διδοῖ εὐρύοπα Ζεύς.“ καὶ τοῖς ἐπὶ ξυροῦ ἀκμῆς ἔχουσι τὰς ἐλπίδας οὐκ ἐπέδειξε ξυντόμως σαφῆ τινα πορείας ὁδόν ἀλλὰ τὴν οἰκείαν ἀμαθίαν τῷ τῶν χρησμῶν ξυνεσκίασεν ἀμφιβόλῳ, τοῦ ψεύδους τὰ φώρια δειμαίνων.
xylinon didoi euryopa Zeus.“ kai tois epi xyrou akmēs echousi tas elpidas ouk epedeixe xyntomōs saphē tina poreias hodon alla tēn oikeian amathian tǭ tōn chrēsmōn xyneskiasen amphibolǭ, tou pseudous ta phōria deimainōn.
far-seeing Zeus gives.' And to those whose hopes stood on a razor's edge he did not briefly show a clear way to go, but covered his own ignorance with the ambiguity of the oracles, fearing the evidence of falsehood.
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Summary: The oracle concealed ignorance in ambiguity.
Extrabiblical texts: Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.31 (Raeder, 251; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-31). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.32Raeder, 251
παραπλήσιον δὲ καὶ αὐτὸ τοῦ χρησμοῦ τὸ τέλος᾽ ὦ θεία Σαλαμίς, ἀπολεῖς δὲ σὺ τέπμνα γυναικῶν, ἤ που σκιδναμένης Δημήτερος ἢ συνιούσης.““ ἠγνόει γάρ που, ὡς ἔδειξε, τοὺς τεθνηξομένους, εἶτε Πέρσαι εἶεν, εἴτε ᾿4θηναῖοι. διὰ τοῦτο γυναιπμῶν ἐμνήσθη μόνων, τὸ δὲ τούτων ἔθνος ἐσίγησεν᾽ καὶ τὸ οσκιδναμένης δὲ Δημήτερος ἢ συνιούσης“" ἀγνοοῦντός ἐστι παντελῶς τὸν τῆς νίκης καιρόν. ἀλλ᾽ ἐνταῦθα μὲν ὁ Θεμιστοκλῆς, καὶ ξυνέσει καὶ ἀνδρείᾳ χρησάμενος, οὖν εἴασε τοῦ χρησμοῦ παντελῶς διελεγχθῆναι τὸ ψεῦδος᾽ οὐ μὴν καὶ μελέους τοὺς ᾿4θηναίους, ἀλλ᾽ εὐδαίμονας ἔδειξεν.
paraplēsion de kai auto tou chrēsmou to telos᾽ ō theia Salamis, apoleis de sy tepmna gynaikōn, ē pou skidnamenēs Dēmēteros ē syniousēs.““ ēgnoei gar pou, hōs edeixe, tous tethnēxomenous, eite Persai eien, eite ᾿4thēnaioi. dia touto gynaipmōn emnēsthē monōn, to de toutōn ethnos esigēsen᾽ kai to oskidnamenēs de Dēmēteros ē syniousēs“" agnoountos esti pantelōs ton tēs nikēs kairon. all᾽ entautha men ho Themistoklēs, kai xynesei kai andreią chrēsamenos, oun eiase tou chrēsmou pantelōs dielenchthēnai to pseudos᾽ ou mēn kai meleous tous ᾿4thēnaious, all᾽ eudaimonas edeixen.
The very end of the oracle is similar: 'O divine Salamis, you will destroy the children of women, either when Demeter is scattered or when she is gathered.' For he did not know, as he showed, who would die, whether Persians or Athenians. For this reason he mentioned only women and kept silent about their nation; and 'when Demeter is scattered or gathered' belongs to one wholly ignorant of the time of victory. But here Themistocles, using intelligence and courage, did not let the oracle's falsehood be wholly exposed; yet he showed the Athenians not wretched but happy.
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Summary: The Salamis oracle was vague; Themistocles' skill won the day.
- Herodotus 7.141–143.
Extrabiblical texts: Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); quotation); Herodotus, Hist. 7.141 (Herodotus, Histories; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.32 (Raeder, 251; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-32). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.33Raeder, 251
“ακεδαιμονίοις δὲ καὶ Κνιδίοις οἵ τούτου χρησμοὶ τοῖς μὲν ἧτταν, τοῖς δὲ δουλείαν προὐξένησαν. “Δυκούργῳ δὲ τῷ νομοθέτῃ τοὺς ὠμοτάτους ἐκείνους καὶ αἰσχροτάτους νόμους δεδωκέναι φιλοτιμεῖται. εἰς γὰρ 4ελφοὺς ἀφικομένῳ ταῦτα ἔφη" »ἥκεις, ὦ «Πυκόξργε, ἐμὸν ποτὶ πίονα νηόν; Ζηνὶ φίλος καὶ πᾶσιν Ὀλύμπια δώματ᾽ ἔχουσιν. δίζω ἤ σε θεὸν μαντεύσομαι ἢ ἄνθρωπον" ἀλλ᾽ ἔτι καὶ μᾶλλον θεὸν ἔλπομαι, ὦ “Τυκόεργε, Ι ἥκεις εὖνομίην διξήμενος᾽ αὐτὰρ ἐγώ τοι δώσω.
“akedaimoniois de kai Knidiois hoi toutou chrēsmoi tois men hēttan, tois de douleian prouxenēsan. “Dykourgǭ de tǭ nomothetę̄ tous ōmotatous ekeinous kai aischrotatous nomous dedōkenai philotimeitai. eis gar 4elphous aphikomenǭ tauta ephē" »hēkeis, ō «Pykoxrge, emon poti piona nēon? Zēni philos kai pasin Olympia dōmat᾽ echousin. dizō ē se theon manteusomai ē anthrōpon" all᾽ eti kai mallon theon elpomai, ō “Tykoerge, I hēkeis eunomiēn dixēmenos᾽ autar egō toi dōsō.
His oracles brought defeat to the Lacedaemonians and slavery to the Cnidians. And he prides himself on having given the lawgiver Lycurgus those most cruel and shameful laws. For when he came to Delphi he said this: 'You have come, Lycurgus, to my rich temple, dear to Zeus and to all who have Olympian homes. I am in doubt whether to proclaim you god or man; but rather I hope a god, Lycurgus. You have come seeking good order; and I will give it to you.'
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Summary: The oracle claimed to give Lycurgus his laws.
- Herodotus 1.65 (quoted already in 9.10–11).
Extrabiblical texts: Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); quotation); Herodotus, Hist. 1.65 (Herodotus, Histories; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.33 (Raeder, 251; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-33). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.34Raeder, 252
ὁποίους δὲ οὗτος τέθειλε νόμους, ἐν τῇ πρὸ ταύτης δεδηλώχαμεν διαλέξει. ξενηλασίας γὰρ ἐνομοθέτησε καὶ παίδων ἔρωτας ἀκολάστους καὶ γυναικῶν ὁμιλίας ἀθέσμους, καὶ τοὺς γαμηλίους ἀνατέτραφε νύμους. ἀλλ᾽ ὃ σοφώτατος καὶ μουσιπώτατος μάντις αὐτὸς ἔφη τούτους δεδωκέναι τοὺς νόμους καὶ θεὸν καλεῖ τὸν ταῦτα νομοθετήσαντα καὶ ἀγνοεῖν ὁμολογεῖ, σότερον χρὴ θεὸν αὐτὸν καλεῖν ἢ ἄνθρωπον" καὶ τὸ τεμεότερον δοῦναι θελήσας, οὐ δέδωκεν ὡς θεός, ἀλλ᾽,,ξλπομαιό εἶπεν ὡς ἄνθρωπος.
hopoious de houtos tetheile nomous, en tę̄ pro tautēs dedēlōchamen dialexei. xenēlasias gar enomothetēse kai paidōn erōtas akolastous kai gynaikōn homilias athesmous, kai tous gamēlious anatetraphe nymous. all᾽ ho sophōtatos kai mousipōtatos mantis autos ephē toutous dedōkenai tous nomous kai theon kalei ton tauta nomothetēsanta kai agnoein homologei, soteron chrē theon auton kalein ē anthrōpon" kai to temeoteron dounai thelēsas, ou dedōken hōs theos, all᾽,,xlpomaio eipen hōs anthrōpos.
What laws he made we showed in the discourse before this. He legislated the expulsion of foreigners, licentious loves of boys, and lawless intercourse with women, and overturned the laws of marriage. But the most wise and most musical seer says himself that he gave these laws, calls the one who legislated them a god, and confesses he does not know whether he should call him god or man; and wishing to give the more honorable title, he did not give it as a god, but said 'I hope' as a man.
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Summary: The oracle endorsed Lycurgus's immoral laws and showed ignorance.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.34 (Raeder, 252; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-34). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.35Raeder, 252
οὗτος καὶ τὰς “ακεδαιμονίων ἐπαινεῖ γυναῖκας ἀδεῶς οἷς ἂν ἐθέλωσι μιγνυμένας καί φησιν.,)χγαίης μὲν πάσης τὸ Πελασγικὸν “ἄργος ἄμεινον, ἵτποι Θρηΐκιαι, «Μακεδαιμόνιαι δὲ γυναῖκες, ἄνδρες δ᾽ οἱ πίνουσιν ὕδωρ
houtos kai tas “akedaimoniōn epainei gynaikas adeōs hois an ethelōsi mignymenas kai phēsin.,)chgaiēs men pasēs to Pelasgikon “argos ameinon, hitpoi Thrēïkiai, «Makedaimoniai de gynaikes, andres d᾽ hoi pinousin hydōr
He also praises the women of the Lacedaemonians, who freely lie with whomever they wish, and says: 'Of all the earth Pelasgian Argos is best, Thracian mares, Lacedaemonian women, and men who drink the water of fair Arethusa.'
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Summary: The oracle praises Spartan women.
- Oracle in Palatine Anthology 14.73 (Parke–Wormell 1).
Extrabiblical texts: Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.35 (Raeder, 252; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-35). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.36Raeder, 252
καλῆς ᾿Αρεθούσης.“ οὗτος καὶ τὸν Ἀρχίλοχον, αἰσχρότατον γενόμενον ποιητήν, ἀοίδιμον προσηγόρευσε καὶ ἀθάνατον᾽ καὶ πρὸς τὸν τοῦδε ἔφη πατέρα᾽.,ἀθάνατός σον παῖς καὶ
kalēs ᾿Arethousēs.“ houtos kai ton Archilochon, aischrotaton genomenon poiētēn, aoidimon prosēgoreuse kai athanaton᾽ kai pros ton toude ephē patera᾽.,athanatos son pais kai
He also called Archilochus, a most shameful poet, celebrated and immortal; and he said to his father: 'Your son will be immortal and
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Summary: The oracle praised the shameful poet Archilochus.
- The oracle ends in 10.37.
Extrabiblical texts: Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); quotation); Archilochus (Archilochus; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.36 (Raeder, 252; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-36). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.37Raeder, 252
ἀοίδιμος, ὦ Τελεσίκλεις, ἔσσετ᾽ ἐν ἀνθρώποις.“ καὶ τῷ Ὁμήρῳ ἔφη,,ὄλβιε καὶ δύσδαιμον,"" τὸ μὲν διὰ τὴν γενομένην τυφλότητα, τὸ δὲ διὰ τὴν ποίησιν, ἣν κατὰ πάντα εὖ ἔχειν ὑπέλαβε᾽ δι’ ἣν αὐτὸν ὁ Πλάτων μύρῳ κατὰ τὰς χελιδόνας ἀλείψας, τῆς ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ ξυντεθείσης ἀπέπεμψε πόλεως.
aoidimos, ō Telesikleis, esset᾽ en anthrōpois.“ kai tǭ Homērǭ ephē,,olbie kai dysdaimon,"" to men dia tēn genomenēn typhlotēta, to de dia tēn poiēsin, hēn kata panta eu echein hypelabe᾽ di’ hēn auton ho Platōn myrǭ kata tas chelidonas aleipsas, tēs hyp᾽ autou xyntetheisēs apepempse poleōs.
celebrated, Telesicles, among men.' And to Homer he said, 'Blessed and ill-fated,' the latter because of the blindness that befell him, the former because of the poetry, which he thought good in every respect; and for which Plato anointed him with myrrh like the swallows and sent him away from the city he composed.
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Summary: The oracle praised Homer's poetry, which Plato banished.
- Plato, Republic 3.398a (see 2.6).
Extrabiblical texts: Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); quotation); Plato, Resp. 398a (Plato (works); allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.37 (Raeder, 252; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-37). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.38Raeder, 253
οὗτος καὶ Κλεομήδη τὸν πύχτην θείας ἐκέλευσεν ἀξιοῦσθαν τιμῆς,ονὕστατος ἡρώων“ φησί,, Κλεομήδης ᾿άστυπαλαιξεὺς, ὃν θυσίαις. τιμᾶθ', ὡς οὐκέτι θνητὸν ἐόντα. ὅσας δὲ οὗτος μιαυφονίας τετόλμηκεν, ἤδη πρόσθεν εἰρήκαμεν.
houtos kai Kleomēdē ton pychtēn theias ekeleusen axiousthan timēs,onystatos hērōōn“ phēsi,, Kleomēdēs ᾿astypalaixeus, hon thysiais. timath', hōs ouketi thnēton eonta. hosas de houtos miauphonias tetolmēken, ēdē prosthen eirēkamen.
He also ordered Cleomedes the boxer to be thought worthy of divine honor: 'Last of the heroes,' he says, 'is Cleomedes of Astypalaea; honor him with sacrifices, since he is no longer mortal.' What bloodshed he dared we have already said.
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Summary: The oracle honored the murderous boxer Cleomedes.
- See 8.26–28.
Extrabiblical texts: Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.38 (Raeder, 253; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-38). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.39Raeder, 253
καὶ Μηθυμναίοις δὲ τοῦτον ἔδωχε τὸν χρησμόν" υὐλλά κε ᾿Μηθύμνης ναέταις πολὺ λώϊον ἔσται, φαλληνὸν τιμῶσι Διωνύσοιο κάρηνον καὶ οὐκ ἐρυθριᾷ τῶν θεῶν τὸ ὁ σοφώτατος, ὃν Φοῖβον οἵ ποιηταὶ προσωνόμαζον, ὡς δὴ ἁγνὸν καὶ ἀμίαντον, τοῦ Διονύσου τὸ ἀκροπόσθιον τιμᾶσθαι χρησμῳδήσας.
kai Mēthymnaiois de touton edōche ton chrēsmon" yylla ke ᾿Mēthymnēs naetais poly lōïon estai, phallēnon timōsi Diōnysoio karēnon kai ouk erythrią tōn theōn to ho sophōtatos, hon Phoibon hoi poiētai prosōnomazon, hōs dē hagnon kai amianton, tou Dionysou to akroposthion timasthai chrēsmǭdēsas.
And he gave this oracle to the Methymnaeans: 'But it will be much better for the dwellers of Methymna if they honor the phallic head of Dionysus.' And the wisest of the gods, whom the poets called Phoebus as pure and undefiled, does not blush to have given an oracle that the foreskin of Dionysus be honored.
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Summary: Apollo ordered the Methymnaeans to honor an obscene image of Dionysus.
- The oracle is known from Eusebius, Praep. ev. 5.36 (from Oenomaus).
Extrabiblical texts: Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.39 (Raeder, 253; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-39). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.40Raeder, 253
οὗτος ἐμπιπραμένῳ μὲν οὐκ ἐπήμυνε τῷ οἰκείῳ νεῷ, ἔφη δὲ τοῦτον παρὰ τῶν Μοιρῶν εἰληφέναι τὸν πλῆρον καὶ μονῳδίαν ἦσε, τὸ πάθος ὀλοφυρόμενος. ἐγὼ δὲ ταύτης τὸ τέλος ἐρῶ..«τέτλαθι. ἹΜοιράων ἀμετάτροπα δήνεα θυμῷ᾽ ταῖσι γὰρ οὐρανίδαο Διὸς κατένευσε κάρηνον, ὅττι κε δινήσωσι, μένειν ἀσάλευτον, ἀτράκτοις. αἶσα γὰρ ἦν δολιχοῖσι χρόνοις περικαλλέα σηκὸν πυρσῶν αἰώρῃσι διιπετέεσσι δαμῆναι.
houtos empipramenǭ men ouk epēmyne tǭ oikeiǭ neǭ, ephē de touton para tōn Moirōn eilēphenai ton plēron kai monǭdian ēse, to pathos olophyromenos. egō de tautēs to telos erō..«tetlathi. HiMoiraōn ametatropa dēnea thymǭ᾽ taisi gar ouranidao Dios kateneuse karēnon, hotti ke dinēsōsi, menein asaleuton, atraktois. aisa gar ēn dolichoisi chronois perikallea sēkon pyrsōn aiōrę̄si diipeteessi damēnai.
He did not defend his own temple when it was burning, but said it had received this lot from the Fates and sang a dirge lamenting the calamity. I will quote its end: 'Endure in your heart the unchangeable counsels of the Fates; for to them the head of Zeus, son of Heaven, nodded assent, that whatever they spin with their spindles should remain unshaken. For it was the lot, after long ages, for the beautiful shrine to be overcome by fires falling from the sky.'
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Summary: Apollo could not save his temple and blamed the Fates.
- The oracle is in Eusebius, Praep. ev. 6.3.
Extrabiblical texts: Orac. Apoll. (Oracles of Apollo (Didyma, Claros); quotation)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.40 (Raeder, 253; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-40). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.41Raeder, 253
καὶ ἕτερα δὲ μυρία ἔστιν εὑρεῖν ἐν τοῖς τούτου χρησμοῖς καταγέλαστα. ξυνήγαγε δὲ τούτους οὐ μόνον ὁ Πορφύριος ἐν τοῖς Περὶ τῆς ἐκ λογίων φιλοσοφίας, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ κυνικὸς Οἰνόμαος, διελέγχων τῶν χρησμολόγων τὸ ψεῦδος.
kai hetera de myria estin heurein en tois toutou chrēsmois katagelasta. xynēgage de toutous ou monon ho Porphyrios en tois Peri tēs ek logiōn philosophias, alla kai ho kynikos Oinomaos, dielenchōn tōn chrēsmologōn to pseudos.
One can find countless other laughable things in his oracles. Not only Porphyry collected them in his On the Philosophy from Oracles, but also the Cynic Oenomaus, exposing the falsehood of the oracle-givers.
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Summary: Porphyry and Oenomaus collected Apollo's oracles.
Extrabiblical texts: Porphyry, Porphyry, Phil. orac. (Porphyry, Philosophy from Oracles (fragments); allusion); Oenomaus (Oenomaus of Gadara, Detection of Impostors; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.41 (Raeder, 253; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-41). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.42Raeder, 254
Οἰνομάου δὲ καὶ Πορφυρίου καὶ Πλουτάρχου καὶ 4Διο- γενιανοῦ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὑμῶν ἕνεκα ἐπεμνήσθην, ἐπειδήπερ ὑμῖν τὰ ὑμέτερα λέγοντές εἰσιν ἀξιόχφεοι" ἡμῖν δὲ ἀρκεῖ τῶν πραγμάτων ἡ μαρτυρία, γεγωνοτάτῃ κεχρημένη φωνῇ καὶ τὸ τῶν χρηστηρίων διελέγχουσα ψεῦδος.
Oinomaou de kai Porphyriou kai Ploutarchou kai 4Dio- genianou kai tōn allōn hymōn heneka epemnēsthēn, epeidēper hymin ta hymetera legontes eisin axiochpheoi" hēmin de arkei tōn pragmatōn hē martyria, gegōnotatę̄ kechrēmenē phōnę̄ kai to tōn chrēstēriōn dielenchousa pseudos.
I have mentioned Oenomaus, Porphyry, Plutarch, Diogenianus, and the others for your sake, since they, speaking of your affairs, are trustworthy for you; but for us the testimony of the facts suffices, using a most resounding voice and exposing the falsehood of the oracles.
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Summary: For Christians, the facts suffice to refute the oracles.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.42 (Raeder, 254; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-42). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.43Raeder, 254
πρὸ μὲν γὰρ δὴ τῆς τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἐπιφανείας, οἷόν πού τινος ξόφου τὴν οἰκουμένην κατέχοντος, καθάπερ τινὲς λῃσταὶ καὶ λωποδύται, οἱ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀλάστορες, οἵ παμπόνηθοὸν. δαίμονες, καὶ λόχοις ἐχρῶντο καὶ πάγαις καὶ ἄρπυσι παντοδαπαῖς, ἀγρεύοντες τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὴν φύσιν ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἀνέσχε τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ φῶς, ἐδραπέτευσαν, ὕπαντες καὶ τοὺς οἰμείουο κατέλιπον χηραμούς.
pro men gar dē tēs tou Sōtēros hēmōn epiphaneias, hoion pou tinos xophou tēn oikoumenēn katechontos, kathaper tines lę̄stai kai lōpodytai, hoi tōn anthrōpōn alastores, hoi pamponēthoon. daimones, kai lochois echrōnto kai pagais kai arpysi pantodapais, agreuontes tōn anthrōpōn tēn physin epeidē de anesche tēs alētheias to phōs, edrapeteusan, hypantes kai tous oimeiouo katelipon chēramous.
For before the appearing of our Savior, when a kind of darkness held the world, the avenging spirits of humankind, the utterly wicked demons, like robbers and clothes-thieves, used ambushes, snares, and all kinds of nets to hunt human nature; but when the light of truth rose, they all fled and left their own lairs.
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Summary: When Christ came, the demons fled like robbers at dawn.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.43 (Raeder, 254; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-43). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.44Raeder, 254
τῷ τοι ἐβόων αὐτίκα φανέντορ᾽ ἔα τί ἡμῖν καὶ δοί; υἱὲ τοῦ Θεοῦς ἦλθες ὧδε πρὸ καιροῦ βασανίσαι ἡμᾶς." καὶ ἕτερον δὲ πάλιν ὥρπουν αὐτόν, ἵνα μὴ αὐτοὺς εἰς τὴν ἄβυσσον πέμψῃ. ἐν δὲ Φιλίπποις τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ Πύθωνος περὶ τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐβόα",,οὗτοι οἱ ἄνθρωποι δοῦλοι τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ὑψίστου εἰσίν, οἵ τίνες καταγγέλλουσιν ὑμῖν ὁδὸν σωτηρίας.
tǭ toi eboōn autika phanentor᾽ ea ti hēmin kai doi? huie tou Theous ēlthes hōde pro kairou basanisai hēmas." kai heteron de palin hōrpoun auton, hina mē autous eis tēn abysson pempsę̄. en de Philippois to pneuma tou Pythōnos peri tōn apostolōn eboa",,houtoi hoi anthrōpoi douloi tou Theou tou hypsistou eisin, hoi tines katangellousin hymin hodon sōtērias.
That is why, as soon as he appeared, they cried: 'Ah! What have we to do with you, Son of God? Have you come here before the time to torment us?' And another time they begged him not to send them into the abyss. And at Philippi the spirit of Python cried about the apostles: 'These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you a way of salvation.'
Matt 8:29 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 8:31 (allusion, high confidence) · Acts 16:17 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Demons confessed Christ and his apostles.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.44 (Raeder, 254; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-44). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.45Raeder, 254
θέεασάμενοι τοίνυν πανταχοῦ διατρέχον τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ πήφυγμα, καθάπερ στρατιῶται φυγάδες πολλὰ δεινὰ καὶ παράνομα δεδρακότες, εἶτα τῆς τοῦ βασιλέως αἰσθόμενοι παρουσίας, ἀπέδρασαν καὶ γυμνὰς τὰς ἐνέδρας κατέλιπον.
theeasamenoi toinyn pantachou diatrechon tēs alētheias to pēphygma, kathaper stratiōtai phygades polla deina kai paranoma dedrakotes, eita tēs tou basileōs aisthomenoi parousias, apedrasan kai gymnas tas enedras katelipon.
Seeing the preaching of truth running everywhere, like runaway soldiers who have done many terrible and lawless things and then perceive the king's arrival, they fled and left their ambushes bare.
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Summary: The demons fled before the spread of the gospel.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.45 (Raeder, 254; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-45). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.46Raeder, 254
ὁ δὲ ὅλων παμβασιλεὺς τὰ τούτων κατέλυσεν ὁρμητήρια᾽ καὶ οὔτε τῆς Κασταλίας προαγορεύει τὸ ὕδωρ, οὔτε Κολοφῶνος ἡ πηγὴ προθεσπίζει, οὐχ ὁ Θεσπρώτιος λέβης μαντεύεται, οὐχ ὁ τρίπους ὁ Κιρραῖος χρησμολογεῖ, οὐ τὸ Φωδωναῖον χαλκεῖον ἀδολεσχεῖ, οὐχ ἡ πολυθρύλητος φθέγγεταν δρῦς, ἀλλὰ σιγᾷ μὲν ὁ 4“ωδωναῖος, σιγᾷ δὲ ὃ Κολοφώνιος καὶ 4ήλιος καὶ Πύθιος καὶ Κλάριος καὶ Διδυμαῖος καὶ ἡ Δεβαδία καὶ ὁ Τροφώνιος καὶ ὃ Ἀἀμφίλοχος καὶ ὁ Ἀμφιάραος καὶ ὁ "άμμων καὶ ἡ τῶν Χαλδαίων καὶ Τυρρηνῶν νεπυία.
ho de holōn pambasileus ta toutōn katelysen hormētēria᾽ kai oute tēs Kastalias proagoreuei to hydōr, oute Kolophōnos hē pēgē prothespizei, ouch ho Thesprōtios lebēs manteuetai, ouch ho tripous ho Kirraios chrēsmologei, ou to Phōdōnaion chalkeion adoleschei, ouch hē polythrylētos phthengetan drys, alla sigą men ho 4“ōdōnaios, sigą de ho Kolophōnios kai 4ēlios kai Pythios kai Klarios kai Didymaios kai hē Debadia kai ho Trophōnios kai ho Aamphilochos kai ho Amphiaraos kai ho "ammōn kai hē tōn Chaldaiōn kai Tyrrēnōn nepuia.
The King of all destroyed their bases; the water of Castalia no longer foretells, the spring of Colophon no longer prophesies, the Thesprotian basin no longer divines, the Cirrhaean tripod no longer gives oracles, the bronze of Dodona no longer chatters, the much-celebrated oak no longer speaks; the Dodonaean is silent, and silent are the Colophonian, the Delian, the Pythian, the Clarian, the Didymaean, Lebadeia, Trophonius, Amphilochus, Amphiaraus, Ammon, and the necromancy of the Chaldeans and Tyrrhenians.
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Summary: All the famous oracles have fallen silent.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.46 (Raeder, 254; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-46). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.47Raeder, 255
σιγᾶν γὰρ αὐτοῖς ἐκέλευσεν ὁ ἐπιτιμῶν ἀβύσσῳ, κατὰ τὸν προφήτήν; καὶ ξηραίνων αὐτήν, ὃ λέγων τῇ ἀβύσσῳ »ἐρημωθήσῃ, καὶ τοὺς ποταμούς σου ξηρανῶ. “ χαὶ ὁ Δαφναῖος Ἀπόλλων, τὸν ἡμέτερον παρασκευάσας μετατεθῆναν νεκρόν, οὐρανόθεν ἐδέξατο τὸν σμηπτόν.
sigan gar autois ekeleusen ho epitimōn abyssǭ, kata ton prophētēn? kai xērainōn autēn, ho legōn tę̄ abyssǭ »erēmōthēsę̄, kai tous potamous sou xēranō. “ chai ho Daphnaios Apollōn, ton hēmeteron paraskeuasas metatethēnan nekron, ouranothen edexato ton smēpton.
For he who rebukes the abyss, as the prophet says, and dries it up, who says to the abyss, 'You shall be desolate, and I will dry up your rivers,' ordered them to be silent. And Daphnaean Apollo, who caused our dead man to be moved, received the thunderbolt from heaven.
Isa 44:27 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: God silenced the oracles; Apollo of Daphne was struck by lightning after the martyr was moved.
- Isa 44:27. The 'dead man' is the martyr Babylas, whose relics were removed from Daphne under Julian, after which Apollo's temple burned (362).
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.47 (Raeder, 255; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-47). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.48Raeder, 255
οὐ γὰρ εἴα προλέγειν αὐτὸν καὶ ξυνήθως ἀποβουκολεῖν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τοῦ σταυρωθέντος ὁ μάρτυς, ἀλλὰ καθάπερ ὃ μέγας Παῦλος τῷ τοῦ Πύθωνος ἐπετίμησε πνεύματι, οὕτως ἡ τοῦ μάρτυρος πόνις τὸ τοῦ μάντεως ἐχαλίνωσε ψεῦδος.
ou gar eia prolegein auton kai xynēthōs apoboukolein tous anthrōpous tou staurōthentos ho martys, alla kathaper ho megas Paulos tǭ tou Pythōnos epetimēse pneumati, houtōs hē tou martyros ponis to tou manteōs echalinōse pseudos.
For the martyr of the Crucified did not let him foretell and beguile human beings as usual; but just as the great Paul rebuked the spirit of Python, so the dust of the martyr bridled the falsehood of the seer.
Acts 16:18 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The martyr's relics silenced Apollo as Paul silenced the spirit of Python.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.48 (Raeder, 255; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-48). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.49Raeder, 255
ὍὉποῖοι μὲν οὖν τῶν ὑμετέρων θεῶν οἵ χρησμοί, παρὰ τῶν ὑμετέρων μεμαθήκατε φιλοσόφων᾽ ὁποῖα δὲ ὁ τῶν ὕλων προλέγει Θεός, καὶ ὅπως βιωφελῆ καὶ ὀνησιφόρα καὶ τῆς ἀληθείας ἀφιέντα τὴν αἴγλην, ἔξεστι τῷ βουλομένῳ καταμαθεῖν ἀκριβῶς, τοῖς θείοις ἐντετυχηκότι λόγοις. ἐγὼ δέ γε ὀλίγων τινῶν ἀπομνημονεύσω προρρήσεων, ἵνα καὶ ἔν παραλλήλου τὸ διάφορον δείξω.
HoOpoioi men oun tōn hymeterōn theōn hoi chrēsmoi, para tōn hymeterōn memathēkate philosophōn᾽ hopoia de ho tōn hylōn prolegei Theos, kai hopōs biōphelē kai onēsiphora kai tēs alētheias aphienta tēn aiglēn, exesti tǭ boulomenǭ katamathein akribōs, tois theiois entetychēkoti logois. egō de ge oligōn tinōn apomnēmoneusō prorrēseōn, hina kai en parallēlou to diaphoron deixō.
What the oracles of your gods are like you have learned from your own philosophers; what the God of the universe foretells, and how beneficial to life, profitable, and sending forth the radiance of truth, anyone who wishes can learn accurately by reading the divine words. I shall recall a few predictions, to show the difference by comparison.
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Summary: Theodoret will cite biblical prophecies for comparison.
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.49 (Raeder, 255; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-49). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.50Raeder, 255
[ πρώτας μέντοι ἐκείνας ὅ ἐρῶ, οὗ τὴν τῶν εἰδώλων κατάλυσιν προηγόρευσαν. ἀκούσατὲ τοίνυν ᾿Ησαΐου τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος",.ἔσται ἐν ταῖς ἐσχάταις ἡμέραις ἐμφανὲς τὸ ὄρος Κυρίου, καὶ ὃ οἶκος τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπ᾽ ἄκρων τῶν ὀρέων, καὶ ὑψωθήσεται ὑπεράνω τῶν βουνῶν, καὶ ἥξουσιν ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸν πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, καὶ πορεύὅονται, λαοὶ πολλοὶ καὶ ἐροῦσι᾽ δεῦτε χαὶ ἀναβῶμεν εἰς τὸ ὕρος Κυρίου καὶ εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ Θεοῦ ᾿Ιακώβ, καὶ ἀναγγελεῖ ἡμῖν τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ᾽ καὶ πορευσόμεθα ἐν αὐτῇ. ἐκ γὰρ Σιὼν ἐξελεύσεται νόμος. καὶ λόγος Κυρίου ἐξ ἽἽερουσαλήμ᾽ καὶ κρινεῖ ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ἐθνῶν καὶ ἐλέγξει λαὸν πολύν᾽ καὶ συγχόψουσι τὰς μαχαίρας αὐτῶν εἰς ἄροτρα, καὶ τὰς ζιβύνας αὐτῶν εἰς δρέπανα᾽ καὶ οὐ λήψεται ἔθνος ἐπ᾽ ἔθνος μάχαιραν΄ χαὶ οὐ μὴ μάθωσιν ἔτι πολεμεῖν.“
[ prōtas mentoi ekeinas ho erō, hou tēn tōn eidōlōn katalysin proēgoreusan. akousate toinyn ᾿Ēsaïou tou prophētou legontos",.estai en tais eschatais hēmerais emphanes to oros Kyriou, kai ho oikos tou Theou ep᾽ akrōn tōn oreōn, kai hypsōthēsetai hyperanō tōn bounōn, kai hēxousin ep᾽ auton panta ta ethnē, kai poreuoontai, laoi polloi kai erousi᾽ deute chai anabōmen eis to hyros Kyriou kai eis ton oikon tou Theou ᾿Iakōb, kai anangelei hēmin tēn hodon autou᾽ kai poreusometha en autę̄. ek gar Siōn exeleusetai nomos. kai logos Kyriou ex HiIerousalēm᾽ kai krinei ana meson tōn ethnōn kai elenxei laon polyn᾽ kai synchopsousi tas machairas autōn eis arotra, kai tas zibynas autōn eis drepana᾽ kai ou lēpsetai ethnos ep᾽ ethnos machairan΄ chai ou mē mathōsin eti polemein.“
First I shall mention those that foretold the destruction of idols. Hear the prophet Isaiah, saying: 'In the last days the mountain of the Lord will be manifest, and the house of God on the tops of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and all the nations will come to it, and many peoples will go and say: Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will declare to us his way, and we will walk in it. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem; and he will judge between the nations and rebuke many people; and they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into sickles; and nation will not take up sword against nation, and they will no longer learn to make war.'
Isa 2:2–4 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Isaiah foretold the nations coming to the Lord's mountain and peace.
- Isa 2:2–4 (LXX).
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.50 (Raeder, 255; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-50). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.51Raeder, 256
ὁποῖα μὲν οὖν ἐχρησμῴδησεν ὁ προφήτης, ἠκούσατε᾽ πρὸς δὲ τῆς ἀληθείας εἴπατε, εἶ τι λοξὸν ὑμῖν ἐν τούτοις ἢ ἀμφίβολον κατεφάνη ἀλλ᾽ οἶδα, ὡς οὐκ ἐρεῖτε᾽ τῶν γάρ τοι πραγμάτων ὑφορᾶσθε τὴν μαρτυρίαν᾽ ὁρᾶτε γὰρ ἐναργῶς τὸ τῆς προρρήσεως τέλος.
hopoia men oun echrēsmǭdēsen ho prophētēs, ēkousate᾽ pros de tēs alētheias eipate, ei ti loxon hymin en toutois ē amphibolon katephanē all᾽ oida, hōs ouk ereite᾽ tōn gar toi pragmatōn hyphorasthe tēn martyrian᾽ horate gar enargōs to tēs prorrēseōs telos.
You have heard what the prophet foretold; now tell, before the truth, whether anything in this seemed to you oblique or ambiguous. But I know you will not say so; for you suspect the testimony of the facts; for you see plainly the fulfillment of the prediction.
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Summary: Isaiah's prophecy is clear and fulfilled.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.51 (Raeder, 256; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-51). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.52Raeder, 256
ἢ οὐχ ὁρᾶτε τῆς ἐκηλησίας τὸ ὕψος καὶ ἅπαντας ὑποκύπτοντας καὶ ταύτῃ τὸ σέβας προσφέροντας, καὶ τοὺς μὲν πλείστους ἐθελοντάς, τοὺς δὲ ἀντιλέγοντας καὶ παρὰ γνώμην δουλεύοντας; οὐχ ὁρᾶτε τῶν ὀρέων τὰς κορυφὰς τοῦ ὑμετέρου μύσους ἀπηλλαγμένας καὶ ταῖς τῶν ἀσκητῶν πκαταγωγαῖς κοσμουμένας καὶ πάντας πανταχόθεν ξυρρέοντας καὶ τὸν ἐν τῇ Σιὼν ἐπιφανέντα λόγον θεολογοῦντας καὶ τὸν ἐκ τῆς Σιὼν ἀναβλύσαντα νόμὸν ἀσπαζομένους. καὶ τοὺς μὲν πολέμους πεπαυμένους, ἀντὶ δὲ τῶν πολεμικῶν ὅπλων τὰ τῆς γεωργικῆς μεταχειρίἕοντας ὄργανα;
ē ouch horate tēs ekēlēsias to hypsos kai hapantas hypokyptontas kai tautę̄ to sebas prospherontas, kai tous men pleistous ethelontas, tous de antilegontas kai para gnōmēn douleuontas? ouch horate tōn oreōn tas koryphas tou hymeterou mysous apēllagmenas kai tais tōn askētōn pkatagōgais kosmoumenas kai pantas pantachothen xyrreontas kai ton en tę̄ Siōn epiphanenta logon theologountas kai ton ek tēs Siōn anablysanta nomon aspazomenous. kai tous men polemous pepaumenous, anti de tōn polemikōn hoplōn ta tēs geōrgikēs metacheirieontas organa?
Or do you not see the height of the church, and all bowing to it and offering it reverence, most willingly, some contradicting and serving against their will? Do you not see the mountain peaks freed from your defilement and adorned with the dwellings of ascetics, and all flowing together from every side, confessing as God the Word who appeared in Zion and embracing the law that gushed out of Zion; and wars ended, and instead of weapons of war people handling the tools of farming?
Isa 2:3–4 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The church's growth, the monks, and peace fulfill Isaiah.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.52 (Raeder, 256; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-52). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.53Raeder, 257
ἢ οὐκ ἴστε, ὡς ὁπηνίκα ταῦτα ὃ προφήτης ἐθέσπιξεν, ἄλλος μὲν τῆς “Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐβασίλευεν, ἄλλος δὲ τῆς Σαμαρείας, καὶ ἄλλος ᾿Ιδουμαίων, καὶ Μωαβιτῶν ἕτερος, καὶ αὖ πάλιν ἄλλος Ἡμμανιτῶν; καὶ ἤάραβες δὲ καὶ Μαδιηναῖοι καὶ Ἀμαληκίται ὑπ᾽ ἄλλοις ἡγεμόσιν ἐτέλουν᾽ καὶ Γάξα δὲ καὶ ᾿Ασκάλων καὶ ἔάζωτος, καὶ μέντοι καὶ. Σιδὼν καὶ Τύρος καὶ Δαμασχὸς ὑπὸ διαφόρων ἀρχόντων ἰθύνοντο᾽
ē ouk iste, hōs hopēnika tauta ho prophētēs ethespixen, allos men tēs “Hierousalēm ebasileuen, allos de tēs Samareias, kai allos ᾿Idoumaiōn, kai Mōabitōn heteros, kai au palin allos Hēmmanitōn? kai ēarabes de kai Madiēnaioi kai Amalēkitai hyp᾽ allois hēgemosin eteloun᾽ kai Gaxa de kai ᾿Askalōn kai eazōtos, kai mentoi kai. Sidōn kai Tyros kai Damaschos hypo diaphorōn archontōn ithynonto᾽
Or do you not know that when the prophet foretold this, one reigned over Jerusalem, another over Samaria, another over the Idumaeans, another over the Moabites, and another over the Ammonites; the Arabs, Midianites, and Amalekites were under other leaders; and Gaza, Ascalon, Azotus, and also Sidon, Tyre, and Damascus were governed by different rulers?
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Summary: In Isaiah's time many kings ruled the region.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.53 (Raeder, 257; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-53). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.54Raeder, 257
οὐ γὰρ δὴ μόνον κατὰ πόλεις, ἀλλὰ καὶ κατὰ κώμας ἐβασιλεύοντο᾽ εὐθὺς δὲ τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν κατὰ σάρκα τεχθέντοτος, «Αὔγουστος Καῖσαρ ἁπάντων ἐκράτησε. καὶ καταλύσας τὰς ἐθναρχίας καὶ μερικὰς βασιλείας τοῖς Ῥωμαίων ἅὅπαντας ὑπέταξεν οἴαξιν. ταῦτα προορῶν ὁ προφήτης τὰ προειρημένα τεθέσπικε καὶ μετ᾽ ὀλίγα τὴν τῶν χειροποιήτων
ou gar dē monon kata poleis, alla kai kata kōmas ebasileuonto᾽ euthys de tou Sōtēros hēmōn kata sarka techthentotos, «Augoustos Kaisar hapantōn ekratēse. kai katalysas tas ethnarchias kai merikas basileias tois Rhōmaiōn haopantas hypetaxen oiaxin. tauta proorōn ho prophētēs ta proeirēmena tethespike kai met᾽ oliga tēn tōn cheiropoiētōn
For they were ruled by kings not only city by city but even village by village; but as soon as our Savior was born in the flesh, Augustus Caesar mastered all, and abolishing the ethnarchies and partial kingdoms, subjected all to the Roman helm. Foreseeing this, the prophet gave the predictions mentioned, and a little later made a tragic lament over the destruction of handmade
Luke 2:1 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: At Christ's birth Augustus united the world, as foreseen.
- The sentence continues in 10.55.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.54 (Raeder, 257; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-54). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.55Raeder, 257
εἰδώλων κατάλυσιν ἐτραγῴδησεν᾽,,πάντα γάρ φησι «τὰ χειροποίητα κατακρύψουσιν, ᾿εἰσενέγκαντες εἰς τὰ σπήλαια καὶ εἰς τὰς σχισμὰς τῶν πετρῶν καὶ εἰς τὰς τρώγλας τῆς γῆς, ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ φόβου Κυρίου καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς δόξης τῆς ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ, ὅταν ἀναστῇ θραῦσαι τὴν γῆν. τῇ γὰρ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἐκβαλεῖ ἄνθρωπος τὰ βδελύγματα αὐτοῦ τὰ ἀργυρᾶ καὶ τὰ χρυσᾶ, ὃ ἐποίησαν ξαυτοῖς εἰς τὸ προσκυνεῖν τοῖς ματαίοις καὶ ταῖς νυχτερίσι, τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὰς τρώγλας τῆς στερεᾶς πέτρας ] καὶ εἰς τὰ σχίσματα τῶν πετρῶν, ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ φόβου Κυρίου καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς δόξης τῆς ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ, ὅταν ἀναστῇ θραῦσαι τὴν γῆν.“
eidōlōn katalysin etragǭdēsen᾽,,panta gar phēsi «ta cheiropoiēta katakrypsousin, ᾿eisenenkantes eis ta spēlaia kai eis tas schismas tōn petrōn kai eis tas trōglas tēs gēs, apo prosōpou tou phobou Kyriou kai apo tēs doxēs tēs ischyos autou, hotan anastę̄ thrausai tēn gēn. tę̄ gar hēmerą ekeinę̄ ekbalei anthrōpos ta bdelygmata autou ta argyra kai ta chrysa, ho epoiēsan xautois eis to proskynein tois mataiois kai tais nychterisi, tou eiselthein eis tas trōglas tēs stereas petras ] kai eis ta schismata tōn petrōn, apo prosōpou tou phobou Kyriou kai apo tēs doxēs tēs ischyos autou, hotan anastę̄ thrausai tēn gēn.“
idols: 'For they will hide all the things made by hands, bringing them into the caves, into the clefts of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the face of the fear of the Lord and from the glory of his strength, when he rises to shatter the earth. For in that day a man will cast away his abominations of silver and gold, which they made for themselves to worship vain things and bats, to go into the holes of the solid rock and into the clefts of the rocks, from before the face of the fear of the Lord and from the glory of his strength, when he rises to shatter the earth.'
Isa 2:19–21 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Isaiah foretells people hiding their idols in caves.
- Isa 2:19–21 (LXX).
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.55 (Raeder, 257; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-55). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.56Raeder, 257
ταύτης δὲ τῆς προφητείας τὴν ἑρμηνείαν οὐχ ἡμᾶς προσήκει ποιήσασθαι, ἀλλ᾽ ὑμᾶς θαυμάσαι τοῦ χρησμοῦ τὴν ἀλήθειαν καὶ ξυνομολογῆσαι τὰ παρ᾽ ὑμῶν πολλάκες γεγενημένα.
tautēs de tēs prophēteias tēn hermēneian ouch hēmas prosēkei poiēsasthai, all᾽ hymas thaumasai tou chrēsmou tēn alētheian kai xynomologēsai ta par᾽ hymōn pollakes gegenēmena.
It is not for us to give the interpretation of this prophecy, but for you to admire the truth of the oracle and to admit what has often been done by you.
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Summary: The pagans themselves fulfill this prophecy.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.56 (Raeder, 257; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-56). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.57Raeder, 258
ἀλλὰ μὴ ἐρυθριάσητε, ὦ ἄνδρες" αἰδεῖσθαι γὰρ οὐ τὴν ὁμολογίαν τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ἀλλὰ τὴν πρᾶξιν προσήκει. εἰ δὲ ὑμεῖς λέγειν οὐ βούλεσθε, ἀλλ᾽ οὖν ἴσασιν ἅπαντες αὐτόπται γενό-. μενον τῶν ἐν τῇ γῇ πολλάκις καταχωσθέντων θεῶν καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν εὐσεβεῖν δεδιδαγμένων ἀνασπασθέντων ἐκεῖθεν καὶ θήλων γεγενημένων.
alla mē erythriasēte, ō andres" aideisthai gar ou tēn homologian tēs hamartias, alla tēn praxin prosēkei. ei de hymeis legein ou boulesthe, all᾽ oun isasin hapantes autoptai geno-. menon tōn en tę̄ gę̄ pollakis katachōsthentōn theōn kai hypo tōn eusebein dedidagmenōn anaspasthentōn ekeithen kai thēlōn gegenēmenōn.
But do not blush, gentlemen; for one should be ashamed not of confessing sin, but of doing it. And if you will not say it, all know, having been eyewitnesses, that the gods were often buried in the earth and were dug up from there by those taught to be godly and made public.
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Summary: Pagans buried their idols, which Christians dug up.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.57 (Raeder, 258; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-57). (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.
10.58Raeder, 258
οἵ μὲν γὰρ τῇ δυσσεβείᾳ δεδουλωμένοι κατέχωσαν, ἐπικουρεῖν ἡγούμενον τοῖς θεοῖς, οἱ δὲ τοῖς τὰ τοιαῦτα μαστεύουσι κατεμήνυσαν, οἱ δὲ ὀρύξαντες καὶ εὗρον καὶ προὔθεσαν ἐν ταῖς ἀγοραῖς, ὥστε καὶ παρὰ γυναιιῶν ὁ καὶ μειρακίων πωμῳδεῖσθαι τοὺς καλουμένους θεούς. τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἑρπετῶν ἦν, τὰ δὲ τετραπόδων ἰνδάλματα" ἤδη δὲ καὶ νυκτερίδων καὶ μυιῶν εἰκάσματα προσεκύνησαν. καὶ αὐτὰ μὲν ἀναιροῦσι τὰ ζῷα. τοὺς ὄφεις λέγω καὶ τοὺς σπορπίους καὶ τὰς μυίας καὶ νυχτερίδας, τὰ δὲ τούτων ἐθθεοποίουν μιμήματα.
hoi men gar tę̄ dyssebeią dedoulōmenoi katechōsan, epikourein hēgoumenon tois theois, hoi de tois ta toiauta masteuousi katemēnysan, hoi de oryxantes kai heuron kai prouthesan en tais agorais, hōste kai para gynaiiōn ho kai meirakiōn pōmǭdeisthai tous kaloumenous theous. ta men gar herpetōn ēn, ta de tetrapodōn indalmata" ēdē de kai nykteridōn kai muiōn eikasmata prosekynēsan. kai auta men anairousi ta zǭa. tous opheis legō kai tous sporpious kai tas muias kai nychteridas, ta de toutōn eththeopoioun mimēmata.
For those enslaved to impiety buried them, thinking they were helping the gods; others informed those who search for such things; others dug, found them, and set them out in the marketplaces, so that the so-called gods were mocked even by women and boys. For some were likenesses of reptiles, others of quadrupeds; they even worshiped images of bats and flies. They kill the animals themselves, I mean snakes, scorpions, flies, and bats, but deified their imitations.
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Summary: The unearthed idols, images of vermin, were mocked in public.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Graec. aff. cur. 10.58 (Raeder, 258; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-graecarum-affectionum-curatio/10-58). (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.