{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2959.tlg006.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg006.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2959.tlg006.local001","title":"Adversus Porphyrium (Fragmenta)","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. Adversus Porphyrium (Fragmenta). ed. D.G. Nathanael Bonwetsch. Methodius, Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs'Sche Buchhandlung, 1917. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2959.tlg006.local001","excerpt":"Ἐπεδήμησεν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ Χριστὸς ταγαῖς τοῦ πατρὸς τῇ ὁρατῇ κτίσει, ἵνα δὴ τὰ κράτη τῶν τυραννούντων ἀνατρέψας δαιμόνων ἐξέληται τῆς πικρᾶς τἀς ψυχὰς δουλείας, ἀνθ᾿ ὧν φύσις ταῖς προποσίαις τῆς ἀδικίας γεγοητευμένη θορύβου τε καὶ ἀταξίας ἐπεπλήρωτο, οὐκ ἔτι τῶν συμφερόντων εἰς ἀνάμνησιν ἀναδραμεῖν οὐδαμῶς δυναμένη. διόπερ καὶ πρὸς τὰ εἴδωλα ῥᾳδίως εἵλκετο, ἅτε ἐπικλύσαντος πάντα τοῦ κακοῦ καὶ πάσας ἐπινενεμημένου τὰς γενεάς, κατὰ τὴν ἀλλοίωσιν τὴν ἐκ τῆς παρακοῆς προσηεγενημένην ταῖς ἐνσάρκοις ἡμῶν σκηναῖς, ἕως ὁ κύριος Χριστὸς δι’ ἧς ἐπεφάνη κὸς τῷ βίῳ ἀμυδρώσας τῶν ἡδονῶν τὰς ἐπιβολάς, αἷς αἱ κάτω δυνάμεις καθ’ ἡμῶν ὡπλίζοντο καταδουλῶσαι τὸ διανοητικόν, ἐλεύθερον πάντων τὸν ἄνθρωπον διέδειξε κακῶν. τούτου γὰρ ἕνεκα καὶ σάρκα ἐφόρεσεν ὁ κύριος Ἰησοῦς, καὶ ἄνθρωπος ἐγέν·ετο καὶ προσηλώθη τῷ σταυρῶ̣ οἰκονομούμενος, ὅπως δι' ἡς σαρκὸς οἱ δαίμονες ἀναδεῖξαι θεοὺς ἠλαζονεύσαντο, πρὸς…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg006.local001/#tlg2959-tlg006-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg006.local001/#tlg2959-tlg006-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg006.local001/#tlg2959-tlg006-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg006.local001/#tlg2959-tlg006-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg006.local001/#tlg2959-tlg006-local001-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959.tlg006.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2959.tlg006.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2959/tlg006/local001.json.gz"}}