{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2035.tlg131.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg131.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2035.tlg131.local001","title":"Oratio II contra Arianos","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Athanasius","authorityName":"ATHANASIUS Theol.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2035-athanasius/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2035-athanasius/","editors":["William Bright"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"The Orations of St. Athanasius against the Arians","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon","place":"Oxford","date":"1884","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":[],"funders":["Harvard Library"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig) 2015 - 2017","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig) 2015 - 2017","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/orationsofstatha00atha","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Athanasius. Oratio II contra Arianos. ed. William Bright. The Orations of St. Athanasius against the Arians, Oxford, Clarendon, 1884. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2035.tlg131.local001","excerpt":"1. ἘΓΩ μὲν ᾤμην τοὺς τῆς Ἀρείου μανίας ὑποκριτὰς ἐπὶ τοῖς προειρημένοις πρὸ τούτου κατʼ αὐτῶν ἐλέγχοις, καὶ ταῖς περὶ τῆς ἀληθείας ἀποδείξεσιν ἀρκεῖσθαι, καὶ παυομένους λοιπὸν, μεταγινώσκειν ἐφʼ οἷς ἐφρόνησάν τε καὶ ἐλάλησαν κακῶς περὶ τοῦ Σωτῆρος· αὐτοὶ δὲ, οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅπως, οὐδὲ οὕτως καταδύονται· 2 Pet. ii. 22. ἀλλʼ ὡς χοῖροι καὶ κύνες περὶ ‘τὰ ἵδια ἐξεράματα’ καὶ τὸν ἑαυτῶν ‘βόρβορον κυλιόμενοι,ʼ ‘μᾶλλον ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἑαυτοῖς ἐπινοίας εἰς ἀσέβειαν. Μὴ νοοῦντες γοῦν μήτε τὸ ἐν ταῖς Παροιμίαις Prov. viii, 22. γεγραμμένον, ‘Κύριος ἔκτισέ με ἀρχὴν ὁδῶν αὐτοῦ εἰς ἔργα Heb. iii. 2. αὐτοῦ,ʼ μήτε τὸ παρὰ τοῦ ἀποστόλου εἰρημένον, ‘πιστὸν ὄντα τῷ ποιήσαντι αὐτὸν,ʼ φιλονεικοῦσιν ἁπλῶς, λέγοντες ‘ποίημα καὶ κτίσμαʼ εἶναι τὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ Υἱόν. Καὶ ἤρκει μὲν ἀπὸ τῶν προειρημένων αὐτοὺς συνιδεῖν, εἰ μὴ τέλεον καὶ τὰς αἰσθήσεις ἀπώλεσαν, ὡς τῆς ἀληθείας μαρτυρησάσης, μὴ εἶναι ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων μηδὲ ὅλως τῶν…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg131.local001/#tlg2035-tlg131-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg131.local001/#tlg2035-tlg131-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg131.local001/#tlg2035-tlg131-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg131.local001/#tlg2035-tlg131-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg131.local001/#tlg2035-tlg131-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg131.local001/#tlg2035-tlg131-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg131.local001/#tlg2035-tlg131-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 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