{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg4139.tlg016.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg016.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4139.tlg016.local002","title":"In illud: in principium erat verbum","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":"543-550","series":null,"citation":"Non-critical edition (punctuation corrected and standardised to modern editorial standards by Annette von Stockhausen) Patrologia graeca 63 Migne Jean-Paul Paris 543-550 1862","citationShort":"Non-critical edition (punctuation corrected and standardised to modern editorial standards by Annette von Stockhausen) Patrologia graeca 63 Migne Jean-Paul Paris 543-550 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 from PG, correction and standardisation of spelling, accents, and punctuation to modern editorial standards; Conversion to CTS-compliant PTA TEI; added biblical references","names":[]},{"role":"Encoding of persons and 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 illud: in principium erat verbum. Non-critical edition (punctuation corrected and standardised to modern editorial standards by Annette von Stockhausen) Patrologia graeca 63 Migne Jean-Paul Paris 543-550 1862. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4139.tlg016.local002","excerpt":"Χθὲς ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος εἰς τὴν τοῦ μεγάλου ἀετοῦ θεωρίαν κατέληξεν, ἀετοῦ τοῦ ὄντως μεγάλου, καὶ πνεύματι τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὰς ὑπερκοσμίους δυνάμεις ὑπερβάντος, καὶ ἀπ’ αὐτῆς τῆς κορυφῆς τῶν ἁπάντων ἀρξαμένου. Ἰωάννης γὰρ ἡμῖν προεκήρυξε τὸ ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος , καὶ περὶ τῆς ἀκτίστου φύσεως ἐφιλοσόφησεν· ὃς ὑπερέβη μὲν τὴν κτίσιν ἅπασαν ὑπὲρ πᾶσαν ἀετοῦ φύσιν, ὑπερέβη δὲ καὶ πάσης βροντῆς ἦχον, μόνος τὴν αἰώνιον καὶ ὑπερκόσμιον φιλοσοφίαν κηρύξας. ἡ γὰρ βροντή, ἀγαπητοί, καὶ φοβεῖ καὶ ἀρδεύει· ἀρδεύει μὲν διὰ τῶν νεφῶν, φοβεῖ δὲ καὶ καταπλήττει διὰ τῆς φωνῆς. μερίζεται τοίνυν καὶ ἡ Ἰωάννου φωνὴ ἀρδεύουσα μὲν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, καταπλήττουσα δὲ τῶν αἱρετικῶν τὸ σύστημα. ὅταν γὰρ τὰ μάταια εἴπωσιν, ὅταν γνόντας τὰ ὄντα, μὴ ὡς ὄντα εἰπεῖν τολμήσωσιν, ὅταν τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην διάλεκτον κατὰ τῆς θείας γραφῆς στρατεύσωσι. τότε βοᾷ Ἰωάννης τὸ ἦν πρὸ τοῦ οὐκ ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg016.local002/#tlg4139-tlg016-local002-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg016.local002/#tlg4139-tlg016-local002-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg016.local002/#tlg4139-tlg016-local002-3"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg016.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg4139.tlg016.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139/tlg016/local002.json.gz"}}