{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg4138.tlg126.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4138.tlg126.local001","title":"De iis, qui filii dei naturam scrutantur","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":null,"authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":null,"editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"De iis, qui filii dei naturam scrutantur, ed. Phrantzolas, op. cit., vol. 6, 196–209. Q: 2,318: Theol.","citationShort":"De iis, qui filii dei naturam scrutantur, ed. Phrantzolas, op. cit., vol. 6, 196–209."},"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://maximus.tlg.uci.edu/canon.php","sourceLinkType":"catalogue","sourceRights":null,"citation":"De iis, qui filii dei naturam scrutantur. De iis, qui filii dei naturam scrutantur, ed. Phrantzolas, op. cit., vol. 6, 196–209.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4138.tlg126.local001","excerpt":"μὴ ἔχων ὑπόστασιν, μηδὲ πάλιν δύναμιν ἀντιστῆναι μιᾷ ῥοπῇ ἐναντίον τοῦ ἀνέμου; Φύσις πάλιν καλάμου προσῆλθεν ἐξερευνᾶν τὴν δύναμιν τοῦ πυρός· καὶ γὰρ πῦρ καιόμενόν ἐστιν ἐξερεύνησις Θεοῦ. Διατί, ὦ ἄθλιε, σεαυτὸν καταφλέγεις ἐν φλογὶ τῇ φοβερᾷ; Εἰπέ μοι, ὦ προ- πετῆ, ἐν τῇ σῇ διανοίᾳ πῶς αὐτὸν διέγραψας τὸν Δημιουργὸν ἁπάσης τῆς κτίσεως, τὸν ἀπέραντον καὶ ἔνδοξον καὶ φοβερόν, οὗ ἀπὸ τοῦ βλέμματος τήκεται πᾶσα κτί- σις, ὡς κηρὸς ἀπὸ προσώπου πυρός; Πᾶσα κτίσις ὁρατὴ ὁμοίως καὶ ἀόρατος ἀπὸ βλέμματος αὐτοῦ ὥσπερ κηρὸς τήκεται ἐν στιγμῇ τοῦ βλέμματος· αὐτὸς δέ, ὦ προ- πετῆ, τὸν μέγαν καὶ φοβερόν, τὸν ἔνδοξον 〈καὶ〉 ἀνείκαστον ἐν τῇ σῇ ὠμότητι καὶ τῇ σῇ προπετείᾳ κατειληφέναι νομίζεις; Ἐμεθύσθης, ὦ ἄθλιε, μὴ γινώσκων σεαυτόν, οὔτε πάλιν τὴν σὴν φύσιν καὶ τὴν σὴν εὐτέλειαν. Αὐτὸς δέ, ὦ εὐτελῆ, πῶς ἐκτίσθης οὐκ οἶδας. Ὁ ἑαυτὸν μὴ γινώσκων, πῶς Δεσπότην ἐρευνᾷς τὸν φοβερὸν καὶ ἔνδοξον;","divisions":[{"label":"198","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001/#tlg4138-tlg126-local001-198"},{"label":"199","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001/#tlg4138-tlg126-local001-199"},{"label":"200","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001/#tlg4138-tlg126-local001-200"},{"label":"201","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001/#tlg4138-tlg126-local001-201"},{"label":"202","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001/#tlg4138-tlg126-local001-202"},{"label":"203","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001/#tlg4138-tlg126-local001-203"},{"label":"204","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001/#tlg4138-tlg126-local001-204"},{"label":"205","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001/#tlg4138-tlg126-local001-205"},{"label":"206","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001/#tlg4138-tlg126-local001-206"},{"label":"207","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001/#tlg4138-tlg126-local001-207"},{"label":"208","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001/#tlg4138-tlg126-local001-208"},{"label":"209","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001/#tlg4138-tlg126-local001-209"},{"label":"Section 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001/#tlg4138-tlg126-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg4138.tlg126.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4138/tlg126/local001.json.gz"}}