{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2040.tlg031.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg031.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2040.tlg031.local001","title":"De fide","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"BASILIUS Caesariensis Theol.","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2040-basilius-caesariensis/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"De fide, MPG 31: 464–472. Cod: 1,347: Homilet.","citationShort":"De fide, MPG 31: 464–472."},"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._031.pdf","sourceLinkType":"facsimile","sourceRights":"Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0","citation":"De fide. De fide, MPG 31: 464–472.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2040.tlg031.local001","excerpt":"λογικοῖς κατὰ φύσιν ἐνέσπαρται· τοῦ δὲ πρὸς ἀξίαν εἰπεῖν πάντες ὁμοίως ἀπολιμπάνονται. Τῇ δὲ περὶ τὴν εὐσέβειαν προθυμίᾳ ἕτερος ἑτέρου διενηνό- χαμεν· οὐδεὶς δὲ οὕτως τετύφλωται, καὶ φρε- ναπατᾷ ἑαυτὸν, ὥστε οἴεσθαι ἐπὶ τὸ ἀκρότατον ἀνα- βεβηκέναι τῆς καταλήψεως· ἀλλ' ὅσῳπερ ἂν δόξῃ προκόπτειν ἐπὶ τὴν γνῶσιν, τοσούτῳ πλέον αὐ- τοῦ τῆς ἀσθενείας αἰσθήσεται. Τοιοῦτος ἦν Ἀβραὰμ, τοιοῦτος ἦν Μωϋσῆς· ὅτε ἰδεῖν Θεὸν ἠδυνήθησαν, ὡς ἰδεῖν δυνατὸν ἀνθρώπῳ, τότε μάλιστα ἑαυτὸν ἑκά- τερος ἐξηυτέλιζεν· ὁ μὲν Ἀβραὰμ γῆν καὶ σποδὸν ἑαυτὸν ὀνομάζων, ὁ δὲ Μωϋσῆς ἰσχνόφωνον λέγων καὶ βραδύγλωσσον. Ἑώρα γὰρ τῆς γλώσσης αὐτοῦ τὸ ἀσθενὲς, ὑπηρετεῖν τῷ μεγέθει τῶν νοηθέν- των μὴ δυναμένης. Πλὴν ἀλλ' ἐπειδὴ πᾶσα ἀκοὴ ἤνοικται νῦν πρὸς θεολογίας ἀκρόασιν, καὶ κόρος οὐκ ἔστι τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ τῶν τοιούτων ἀκροαμάτων, βεβαιούσῃ τὸν τοῦ Ἐκκλησιαστοῦ λόγον, ὅτι Οὐ πλη- ρωθήσεται οὖς ἀπὸ ἀκροάσεως. ἀναγκαῖον λέ- γειν…","divisions":[{"label":"31","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg031.local001/#tlg2040-tlg031-local001-31"},{"label":"Section 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg031.local001/#tlg2040-tlg031-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg031.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2040.tlg031.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040/tlg031/local001.json.gz"}}