{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2959.tlg005.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg005.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2959.tlg005.local001","title":"De Creatis (Fragmenta Ap. Photium, Bibl. Cod. 235)","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Methodius","authorityName":"METHODIUS Episcopus Scr. Eccl.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2959-methodius-episcopus-scr-eccl/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2959-methodius-episcopus-scr-eccl/","editors":["D.G. Nathanael Bonwetsch"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Methodius","edition":null,"publisher":"J. C. Hinrichs'Sche Buchhandlung","place":"Leipzig","date":"1917","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":"University of Leipzig","sponsors":["University of Leipzig"],"funders":["European Social Fund Saxony"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2014","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2015","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2015","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/methodiusherausg00meth","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Methodius. De Creatis (Fragmenta Ap. Photium, Bibl. Cod. 235). ed. D.G. Nathanael Bonwetsch. Methodius, Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs'Sche Buchhandlung, 1917. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2959.tlg005.local001","excerpt":"Ὅτι τό μὴ βάλητε τὸ ἅγιον τοῖς κυσί, μηδὲ τοὺς μαργαρίτας ὑμῶν ἔμπροσθεν τῶν χοίρων‘ μαργαρίτας μὲν τοῦ Ξένωνος τὰ μυστικώτερα τῆς θεοσδότου θρησκείας ἐκλαμβάνοντος μαθήματα, χοίρους δὲ τοὺς ἔτι ἀσεβείᾳ καὶ ἡδοναῖς παντοίαις δίκην χοίρων ἐν βορβόρῳ καλινδουμένους τούτοις γὰρ εἰρῆσθαι παρὰ Χριστοῦ ἔλεγε μὴ παραβαλεῖν τὰ θεῖα μαθήματα, διὰ τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι αὐτὰ φέρειν, ἅτε τῇ ἀσεβείᾳ καὶ ταῖς ἀγρίαις ἡδοναῖς προκατισχημένους) ὁ μέγας Μεθόδιός φησιν, Εἰ μαργαρίτας τὰ σεμνοπρεπῆ καὶ θεῖα μαθήματα δεῖ ἐξακούειν, χοίρους δὲ τοὺς ἀσεβείᾳ καὶ ἡδοναῖς συζῶντας, οἷς καὶ καὶ ἀπόκρυφα τὰ πρὸς εὐσέβειαν καὶ τὴν εἰς Χριστὸν πίστιν ἀποστολικὰ διεγείροντα κηρύγματα δεῖ εἶναι, ὅρα ὡς οὐδένα λέγεις τῶν Χριστιανῶν τοῖς τῶν ἀποστόλων κηρύγμασιν ἐξ ἀσεβείας αὐτῶν τῆς προτέρας ἐπιστρέφει· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἂν πάντως παρέβαλον τὰ κατὰ τὸν Χριστὸν μυστήρια τοῖς δι' ἀπιστίαν χοίρ·οις ἐοικόσιν. ἢ οὖν πᾶσι τοῖς Ἕλλησι καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"EK ΤΟΥ <ΞΕΝΩΝΟΣ Η> ΠΕΡΙ ΤΩΝ ΓΕΝΗΤΩΝ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg005.local001/#tlg2959-tlg005-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg005.local001/#tlg2959-tlg005-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg005.local001/#tlg2959-tlg005-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg005.local001/#tlg2959-tlg005-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg005.local001/#tlg2959-tlg005-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg005.local001/#tlg2959-tlg005-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg005.local001/#tlg2959-tlg005-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg005.local001/#tlg2959-tlg005-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg005.local001/#tlg2959-tlg005-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg005.local001/#tlg2959-tlg005-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg005.local001/#tlg2959-tlg005-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg005.local001/#tlg2959-tlg005-local001-12"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg005.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2959.tlg005.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959/tlg005/local001.json.gz"}}