{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2040.tlg032.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg032.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2040.tlg032.local001","title":"In illud: In principio erat verbum","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":"In illud: In principio erat verbum, MPG 31: 472–481. Cod: 1,937: Exeget., Homilet.","citationShort":"In illud: In principio erat verbum, MPG 31: 472–481."},"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":"In illud: In principio erat verbum. In illud: In principio erat verbum, MPG 31: 472–481.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2040.tlg032.local001","excerpt":"θίαν βδελύξομαι; Ἀλλὰ πρὸ τοῦ γεννηθῆναι, οὐκ ἦν. Οἶδας γὰρ πότε ἐγεννήθη, ἵνα τὸ πρὶν δυνηθῇς ἐπ- ενεγκεῖν τῷ χρόνῳ; Τὸ γὰρ, Πρὸ τοῦ, χρονική ἐστι φωνὴ, ἕτερον ἑτέρου προτιθεῖσα εἰς παλαιότητα. Τὸν δὲ τοῦ χρόνου ποιητὴν πῶς εὔλογον ταῖς χρονικαῖς προσηγορίαις ὑποκειμένην ἔχειν τὴν γέν- νησιν; Ἐν ἀρχῇ τοίνυν ἦν. Ἐὰν μὴ ἀποστῇς τοῦ Ἦν, οὐδεμίαν παρείσδυσιν δώσεις τῇ πονηρᾷ βλασφη- μίᾳ. Ὥσπερ γὰρ οἱ θαλαττεύοντες, ὅταν ἐπὶ δύο σαλεύωσιν ἀγκυρῶν, καταφρονοῦσι τοῦ κλύδωνος· οὕτω καὶ σὺ τῆς πονηρᾶς ταύτης ταραχῆς, τῆς ἐκ τῶν πνευμάτων τῆς πονηρίας ἐγγινομένης τῷ βίῳ, καὶ διασαλευούσης τῶν πολλῶν τὴν πίστιν, καταγε- λάσῃ, ἐὰν τῇ ἀσφαλείᾳ τῶν ῥημάτων τούτων τὴν ψυχὴν ἔχῃς ἐνορμισθεῖσαν. Ἐπιζητεῖ δὲ ἡμῶν ἡ διάνοια, τίς ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ; Ὁ Λόγος, φησί. Ποῖος λόγος; ὁ ἀνθρώπινος λόγος; ἀλλ' ὁ τῶν ἀγγέλων λόγος; Καὶ γὰρ ᾐνίξατο ἡμῖν ὁ Ἀπόστολος, ὡς καὶ τῶν ἀγγέλων ἰδίαν ἐχόντων γλῶσσαν, εἰπών· Ἐὰν ταῖς…","divisions":[{"label":"31","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg032.local001/#tlg2040-tlg032-local001-31"},{"label":"Section 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg032.local001/#tlg2040-tlg032-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg032.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2040.tlg032.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040/tlg032/local001.json.gz"}}