{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2022.tlg025.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg025.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2022.tlg025.local001","title":"Ad patrem","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"GREGORIUS NAZIANZENUS Theol.","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2022-gregorius-nazianzenus/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"Ad patrem (orat. 12), MPG 35: 844–849. Cod: 1,169: Orat.","citationShort":"Ad patrem (orat. 12), MPG 35: 844–849."},"rights":{"text":"Document TEI P5 local en UTF-8.","url":null},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-29","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patrologia_Graeca_Vol._035.pdf","sourceLinkType":"facsimile","sourceRights":"Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0","citation":"Ad patrem. Ad patrem (orat. 12), MPG 35: 844–849.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2022.tlg025.local001","excerpt":"ἐναστράπτεσθαι, μηδενὸς ἐπιμιγνυμένου τῶν κάτω καὶ θολερῶν, μηδὲ τῷ θείῳ φωτὶ παρεμπίπτοντος, ἕως ἂν ἐπὶ τὴν πηγὴν ἔλθωμεν τῶν τῇδε ἀπαυγασμά- των, καὶ στῶμεν τοῦ πόθου καὶ τῆς ἐφέσεως, λυθέν- των τῶν ἐσόπτρων τῇ ἀληθείᾳ. Βούλεται τὸ δὲ εἰς μέσον ἄγειν, καὶ καρποφορεῖν τῷ κοινῷ βούλεται, καὶ τοῦτο ὠφελεῖσθαι, τὸ ὠφελεῖν ἀλλήλους, καὶ δη- μοσιεύειν τὴν ἔλλαμψιν, καὶ προσάγειν Θεῷ λαὸν πε- ριούσιον, ἔθνος ἅγιον, βασίλειον ἱεράτευμα, ἐν πλείοσι εἰκόνα κεκαθαρμένην. Κρεῖσσον γὰρ εἶναι καὶ πλεῖον, ὥσπερ φυτοῦ παράδεισον, καὶ ἀστέρος ἑνὸς οὐρανὸν ὅλον σὺν τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ κάλλεσι, καὶ μέ- λους σῶμα, οὕτω καὶ Θεῷ κατορθοῦντος ἑνὸς ὅλην Ἐκκλησίαν κατηρτισμένην· καὶ χρῆναι μὴ τὸ ἑαυ- τοῦ μόνον σκοπεῖν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ τῶν ἄλλων. Ἐπεὶ καὶ Χριστὸς οὕτως, ᾧ μένειν ἐξὸν ἐπὶ τῆς ἰδίας τιμῆς καὶ θεότητος, οὐ μόνον ἐκένωσεν ἑαυτὸν μέχρι τῆς τοῦ δούλου μορφῆς, ἀλλὰ καὶ σταυρὸν ὑπέμεινεν αἰ- σχύνης καταφρονήσας,…","divisions":[{"label":"35","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg025.local001/#tlg2022-tlg025-local001-35"},{"label":"Section 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg025.local001/#tlg2022-tlg025-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg025.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2022.tlg025.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022/tlg025/local001.json.gz"}}