Μωρία διὰ Χριστόν
foolishness for Christ's sake
Translated by Nick Nicholas6 Aug 2009Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
"[What is foolishness because of1 Christ?] When we restrain our own thoughts, out of mad desire ahead of time; when we make our intellect void and empty of external education—so that, when it must accept the things of Christ, we hand it over at leisure and swept clean, to accept the divine words."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μωρία διὰ Χριστόν· ὅταν τοὺς οἰκείους λογισμοὺς λυττῶντας ἀκαίρως καταστέλλωμεν, ὅταν ἔρημον καὶ κενὴν τὴν ἡμετέραν διάνοιαν τῆς ἔξωθεν ποιῶμεν παιδεύσεως, ἵν' ὅταν δέῃ τὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ δέχεσθαι, σχολάζουσαν καὶ σεσαρωμένην αὐτὴν πρὸς ὑποδοχὴν τῶν θείων λόγων παρέχωμεν.
Betacode
*mwri/a dia\ *xristo/n: o(/tan tou\s oi)kei/ous logismou\s luttw=ntas a)kai/rws kataste/llwmen, o(/tan e)/rhmon kai\ kenh\n th\n h(mete/ran dia/noian th=s e)/cwqen poiw=men paideu/sews, i(/n' o(/tan de/h| ta\ tou= *xristou= de/xesqai, sxola/zousan kai\ sesarwme/nhn au)th\n pro\s u(podoxh\n tw=n qei/wn lo/gwn pare/xwmen.
Notes (1)
- John Chrysostom, On the Incomprehensible Nature of God 2 line 71 Malingrey (= PG 48, 710bc).
- 1Chrysostom uses the preposition
kata/ here,dia/ (as in the present lemma) a little earlier. ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 23 Sep 2020
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another note; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Nick Nicholas