¹⁹¹ Cf. Rom. xvi. 26.

¹⁹² S. John v. 22.

¹⁹³ Cf. S. Luke xix. 10.

¹⁹⁴ Ezek. xviii. 20.

¹⁹⁵ Cf. Gen. ii. 17.

¹⁹⁶ S. Matt. ii. 20. The word yuxhn may be rendered by either "life" or "soul."

¹⁹⁷ S. John viii. 40. This is the only passage in which our Lord speaks of Himself by this term.

¹⁹⁸ S. John vii. 20.

¹⁹⁹ Cf. S. Luke v. 20, Luke v. 23, and the parallel passages in S. Matt. ix. and S. Mark ii.

²⁰⁰ S. John v. 14.

²⁰¹ Eph. ii. 15.

²⁰² Cf. S. John x. 17, John x. 18. Here again the word yuxhn is rendered in the A. V. by "life."

²⁰³ Ps. xvi. 8. Acts ii. 27, Acts ii. 31.

²⁰⁴ Acts ii. 36. A further exposition of Gregory's views on this passage will be found in Book V.

²⁰⁵ S. John ii. 19.

²⁰⁶ Cf. 2 Cor. vi. 16.

²⁰⁷ S. John i. 14.

²⁰⁸ Ps. lxv. 2.

²⁰⁹ Acts vii. 14. Cf. Gen. xlvi. 27, and Deut. x. 22.

²¹⁰ S. John iv. 24.

²¹¹ Cf. Lam. iv. 20 in LXX.

²¹² Ps. xcix. 9.

²¹³ Cf. the response to the words of the Priest at the elevation the Gifts in the Greek Liturgies.

²¹⁴ S. John xiv. 16.

²¹⁵ Ps. lxxvi. 17.

²¹⁶ 2 Cor. i. 3-4.

²¹⁷ 1 S. John ii. 1. The word is in the A. V. rendered "advocate.")

²¹⁸ From which is derived the name Paraclete, i.e. Comforter or Advocate.

²¹⁹ 2 Cor. vii. 6.

²²⁰ 2 Cor. v. 20.

²²¹ The text reads, "that God is called righteousness," but the argument seems to require the genitive case. The reference may be to Ps. iv. I.

²²² S. John xv. 26.

²²³ With this passage cf. S. John i. 12, S. John iii. 6; Rom. viii. 14; S. 1 John iii. 3.

²²⁴ S. John xx. 21, and S. John i. 16.

²²⁵ Col. ii. 9.

²²⁶ Is. vi. 1.

²²⁷ S. John xii. 41. The "older tradition" means presumably the ancient interpretation of the Jews.

²²⁸ Cf. Acts xxviii. 25, Acts xxviii. 26. The quotation is not verbal.

²²⁹ Cf. Ps. lxxviii. 40.

²³⁰ Heb. iii. 7.

²³¹ S. John x. 30.

²³² Cf. S. John i. 3.

²³³ Cf. Col. i. 16; but the enumeration varies considerably.

²³⁴ The last of these epithets is from Ps. li. 14 (pneuma hgemonikon, the "Spiritus principalis" of the Vulgate, the "free spirit" of the English version); the "right spirit" of ver.12 being also applied by S. Gregory to the Holy Spirit, while the epithet "good" is from Ps cxlii. 10.

²³⁵ Cf. 1 Cor. xii. 11.

²³⁶ S. John iii. 8.

²³⁷ Ps. viii. 7, Ps. viii. 8.

²³⁸ Ps. xlvii. 3.

²³⁹ Tit. ii. 9.

²⁴⁰ 1 Tim. iii. 4.

²⁴¹ Cf. Phil. ii. 10, Phil. ii. 11, a passage which is apparently considered as explanatory of 1 Cor. xv. 28.

²⁴² Cf. Ps. lxii. 1 (LXX.).

²⁴³ See above, §8 of this book.

²⁴⁴ Or, "not the first-born of beings of a different race, but of those of his own stock."

²⁴⁵ omogenh, "of the same stock": the word being the same which (when coupled with adelfon) has been translated, in the passages preceding, by "begotten with."

²⁴⁶ anabebhke: the word apparently is intended by Eunomius to have the force of "transcended"; Gregory, later on, criticizes its employment in this sense.

²⁴⁷ S. John v. 17.

²⁴⁸ S. John iii. 8.

²⁴⁹ 1 Cor. xii. 6.

²⁵⁰ If we read kathxhsewj for the kaqhghsewj of Oehler's text we have a clearer sense, "the Apostle plants by his instruction."

²⁵¹ 1 Cor. xii. 11.

²⁵² Ps. lxxx. 1.

²⁵³ Ps. lxxvii. 20.

²⁵⁴ Cf. Ps. cxliii. 10.

²⁵⁵ Cf. Ps. xxxi. 3.

²⁵⁶ Ps. xxviii. 8.

²⁵⁷ Ps. lxviii. 35.

²⁵⁸ Ps. xxvii. 1.

²⁵⁹ Heb. i. 3.

²⁶⁰ Cf. S. Mark ix. 25.

²⁶¹ S. Matt. xii. 28.

²⁶² Ps. vi. 3.

²⁶³ Is. xxvi. 19 (LXX.).

²⁶⁴ Ps. cviii. 4-7.

²⁶⁵ Ps. cxxvi. 1.

²⁶⁶ 2 Cor. i. 3, 2 Cor. i. 4.

²⁶⁷ Ps. lxxxi. 17.

²⁶⁸ Ps. cxviii. 13.

²⁶⁹ Ps. xxxvii. 24.

²⁷⁰ Ps. cxlvi. 8.

²⁷¹ Ps. lxvi. 10, Ps. lxvi. 11.

²⁷² Eph. vi. 12.

²⁷³ 1 Cor. xii. 11.

²⁷⁴ Is. xli. 10.

²⁷⁵ Ps. xxiii. 4.

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