{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg4139.tlg011.local004","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg011.local004/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4139.tlg011.local004","title":"In cosmogoniam homilia 4","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Severianus Gabalensis","authorityName":"SEVERIANUS Orat. et Scr. Eccl.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4139-severianus-orat-et-scr-eccl/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4139-severianus-orat-et-scr-eccl/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":null,"sourceTitle":"Patrologia graeca","edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":"1862","volume":"457–471","series":null,"citation":"Non-critical edition (spelling, accents and punctuation corrected and standardised to modern editorial standards by Sever Voicu) Patrologia graeca 56 Migne Jean-Paul Paris 457–471 1862","citationShort":"Non-critical edition (spelling, accents and punctuation corrected and standardised to modern editorial standards by Sever Voicu) Patrologia graeca 56 Migne Jean-Paul Paris 457–471 1862"},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften","sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Transcription of the text; correction and standardisation of spelling, accents, and punctuation to modern editorial standards","names":[]},{"role":"Conversion of the transcription to CTS-compliant PTA TEI; added biblical references; annotations of persons, groups, places","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":null,"sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Severianus Gabalensis. In cosmogoniam homilia 4. Non-critical edition (spelling, accents and punctuation corrected and standardised to modern editorial standards by Sever Voicu) Patrologia graeca 56 Migne Jean-Paul Paris 457–471 1862. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4139.tlg011.local004","excerpt":"Κάμνουσαν ἡμῖν τὴν φωνὴν τῇ προτεραίᾳ ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ χάρις διὰ τὰς ὑμετέρας εὐχὰς καὶ τὸν ὑμέτερον πόθον ἐστερέωσεν. Αὐτῇ τοίνυν χρησάμενος τῇ πείρᾳ διδασκάλῳ, ὅσον ἰσχύει πόθος καὶ ζῆλος φιλοθεΐας, ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτὴν παράκλησιν ἥκω, πάλιν ὑμῶν δεόμενος τὴν αὐτὴν ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν αἰτήσασθαι χάριν. Εἰ γὰρ τὸ σκεῦος τῆς ἐκλογῆς ὁ Παῦλος ὁ λαλοῦντα ἔχων ἐν ἑαυτῷ τὸν Χριστόν , ὁ πνεύματι ἁγίῳ κυβερνώμενος τὴν παρὰ τῶν ἀκροατῶν ἠρραβωνίζετο προσευχὴν λέγων· Ἀδελφοί, προσεύχεσθε περὶ ἐμοῦ, ἵνα μοι δοθῇ λόγος ἐν ἀνοίξει τοῦ στόματός μου , πόσῳ μᾶλλον ἡμεῖς οἱ ταπεινοὶ καὶ τὸ μηδέν, ὡς εἰπεῖν, ὄντες αἰτοῦμεν τὴν παρ’ ὑμῶν πρεσβείαν, ἵνα λυθῇ μὲν ὁ δεσμὸς τῆς γλώττης, ἀνοιγῇ δὲ τῆς παρρησίας ὁ λόγος· καὶ αὐτὴ δὲ ἡ θεία χάρις καὶ τὸ ὄργανον ἀνεμπόδιστον φυλάξῃ καὶ τῶν νοημάτων τὴν χορηγίαν ἀφθονήσῃ· οὐχ ἵνα ὁ λέγων τὰ θεῖα κερδάνῃ μόνος, ἀλλ’ ἵνα μεθ’ ὑμῶν τὸν οὐράνιον πλοῦτον ἀντλήσῃ. Φέρε τοίνυν τῆς…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg011.local004/#tlg4139-tlg011-local004-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg011.local004/#tlg4139-tlg011-local004-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg011.local004/#tlg4139-tlg011-local004-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg011.local004/#tlg4139-tlg011-local004-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg011.local004/#tlg4139-tlg011-local004-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg011.local004/#tlg4139-tlg011-local004-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg011.local004/#tlg4139-tlg011-local004-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg011.local004/#tlg4139-tlg011-local004-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg011.local004/#tlg4139-tlg011-local004-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg011.local004/#tlg4139-tlg011-local004-10"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg011.local004/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg4139.tlg011.local004.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139/tlg011/local004.json.gz"}}