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 바실리우스의 유명한 저작 "On the Words 'Give Heed to yourself'(성경에 쓰여진 '스스로 주의하라' - 신명기 15:9)"를 '비슷한 시기 교부들 또는 철학자의 작품'과 연결하여 분석합니다.

 핵심적으로 바실리우스는 외적으로 나타나야 할 신앙인다운 행동을 강조하기 위해, 누군가의 내면을 점검하도록 격려합니다. 그리고 그것을 그는 '신화(Deificatio)의 기초'로 설정합니다. 관련하여, 본 논문은 클레멘트와 오리겐, 폴피리, 필로 등이 그러한 바실리우스의 해석과 주장에 영향을 끼쳤으리라 '교부 문헌'들을 통해 추측 및 논증합니다. 바실리우스의 위로부터의 신학을 잘 이해하여, 그가 신앙인에게 요구한 행동을 논리적으로 설명해야 합니다.


 * Protreptic Motifs in St Basil’s Homily "On the Words ‘Give Heed to Thyself’" - Olga ALIEVA, National Research  University Higher School of Economics, Russia(2011)

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STUDIA PATRISTICA  
VOL. LXII  
Papers presented at the Sixteenth International Conference  
on Patristic Studies held  
in Oxford 2011  
Edited by  
MARKUS VINZENT  
Volume 10:  
The Genres of Late Antique Literature  
Foucault and the Practice of Patristics  
Patristic Studies in Latin America  
Historica  
PEETERS  
LEUVEN – PARIS – WALPOLE, MA  
2013  
Table of Contents  
THE GENRES OF LATE ANTIQUE LITERATURE  
Yuri SHICHALIN, Moscow, Russia  
The Traditional View of Late Platonism as a Self-contained System  
3
Bernard POUDERON, Tours, France  
Y a-t-il lieu de parler de genre littéraire à propos des Apologies du  
second siècle?...................................................................................... 11  
John DILLON, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland  
Protreptic Epistolography, Hellenic and Christian ............................. 29  
Svetlana MESYATS, Moscow, Russia  
Does the First have a Hypostasis? Some Remarks to the History of  
the Term hypostasis in Platonic and Christian Tradition of the 4th –  
5th Centuries AD ................................................................................. 41  
Anna USACHEVA, Moscow, Russia  
The Term panßguriv in the Holy Bible and Christian Literature of the  
Fourth Century and the Development of Christian Panegyric Genre  
57  
Olga ALIEVA, National Research University Higher School of Economics,  
Moscow, Russia  
Protreptic Motifs in St Basil’s Homily On the Words ‘Give Heed to  
Thyself’ ................................................................................................ 69  
FOUCAULT AND THE PRACTICE OF PATRISTICS  
David NEWHEISER, Chicago, USA  
Foucault and the Practice of Patristics................................................ 81  
Devin SINGH, New Haven, USA  
Disciplining Eusebius: Discursive Power and Representation of the  
Court Theologian................................................................................. 89  
Rick ELGENDY, Chicago, USA  
Practices of the Self and (Spiritually) Disciplined Resistance: What  
Michel Foucault Could Have Said about Gregory of Nyssa .............. 103  
VI  
Table of Contents  
Marika ROSE, Durham, UK  
Patristics after Foucault: Genealogy, History and the Question of  
Justice .................................................................................................. 115  
PATRISTIC STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICA  
Patricia Andrea CINER, Argentina  
Los Estudios Patrísticos en Latinoamérica: pasado, presente y future 123  
Edinei DA ROSA CÂNDIDO, Florianópolis, Brasil  
Proposta para publicações patrísticas no Brasil e América Latina: os  
seis anos dos Cadernos Patrísticos...................................................... 131  
Oscar VELÁSQUEZ, Santiago de Chile, Chile  
La historia de la patrística en Chile: un largo proceso de maduración 135  
HISTORICA  
Guy G. STROUMSA, Oxford, UK, and Jerusalem, Israel  
Athens, Jerusalem and Mecca: The Patristic Crucible of the Abrahami  
c
Religions.............................................................................................. 153  
Josef LÖSSL, Cardiff, Wales, UK  
Memory as History? Patristic Perspectives........................................ 169  
Hervé INGLEBERT, Paris-Ouest Nanterre-La Défense, France  
La formation des élites chrétiennes dAugustin à Cassiodore............ 185  
Charlotte KÖCKERT, Heidelberg, Germany  
The Rhetoric of Conversion in Ancient Philosophy and Christianity 205  
Arthur P. URBANO, Jr., Providence, USA  
‘Dressing the Christian: The Philosopher’s Mantle as Signifier of  
Pedagogical and Moral Authority....................................................... 213  
Vladimir IVANOVICI, Bucharest, Romania  
Competing Paradoxes: Martyrs and the Spread of Christianity  
Revisited .............................................................................................. 231  
Helen RHEE, Santa Barbara, California, USA  
Wealth, Business Activities, and Blurring of Christian Identity........ 245  
Table of Contents  
VII  
Jean-Baptiste PIGGIN, Hamburg, Germany  
The Great Stemma: A Late Antique Diagrammatic Chronicle of Pre-  
Christian Time..................................................................................... 259  
Mikhail M. KAZAKOV, Smolensk, Russia  
Types of Location of Christian Churches in the Christianizing Roman  
Empire ................................................................................................. 279  
David Neal GREENWOOD, Edinburgh, UK  
Pollution Wars: Consecration and Desecration from Constantine to  
Julian.................................................................................................... 289  
Christine SHEPARDSON, University of Tennessee, USA  
Apollo’s Charred Remains: Making Meaning in Fourth-Century  
Antioch ................................................................................................ 297  
Jacquelyn E. WINSTON, Azusa, USA  
The ‘Making’ of an Emperor: Constantinian Identity Formation in  
his Invective Letter to Arius ............................................................... 303  
Isabella IMAGE, Oxford, UK  
Nicene Fraud at the Council of Rimini .............................................. 313  
Thomas BRAUCH, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA  
From Valens to Theodosius: ‘Nicene’ and Arian’ Fortunes in the  
East August 378 to November 380 ..................................................... 323  
Silvia MARGUTTI, Perugia, Italy  
The Power of the Relics: Theodosius I and the Head of John the  
Baptist in Constantinople.................................................................... 339  
Antonia ATANASSOVA, Boston, USA  
A Ladder to Heaven: Ephesus I and the Theology of Marian Mediation 353  
Luise Marion FRENKEL, Cambridge, UK  
What are Sermons Doing in the Proceedings of a Council? The Case  
of Ephesus 431..................................................................................... 363  
Sandra LEUENBERGER-WENGER, Münster, Germany  
The Case of Theodoret at the Council of Chalcedon......................... 371  
Sergey TROSTYANSKIY, Union Theological Seminary, New York, USA  
The Encyclical of Basiliscus (475) and its Theological Significance;  
Some Interpretational Issues............................................................... 383  
VIII  
Table of Contents  
Eric FOURNIER, West Chester, USA  
Victor of Vita and the Conference of 484: A Pastiche of 411? ......... 395  
Dana Iuliana VIEZURE, South Orange, NJ, USA  
The Fate of Emperor Zeno’s Henoticon: Christological Authority  
after the Healing of the Acacian Schism (484-518)............................ 409  
Roberta FRANCHI, Firenze, Italy  
Aurum in luto quaerere (Hier., Ep. 107,12). Donne tra eresia e ortodos-  
sia nei testi cristiani di IV-V secolo.................................................... 419  
Winfried BÜTTNER, Bamberg, Germany  
Der Christus medicus und ein medicus christianus: Hagiographische  
Anmerkungen zu einem Klerikerarzt des 5. Jh.................................. 431  
Susan LOFTUS, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  
Episcopal Consecration – the Religious Practice of Late Antique Gaul  
in the 6th Century: Ideal and Reality.................................................. 439  
Rocco BORGOGNONI, Baggio, Italy  
Capitals at War: Images of Rome and Constantinople from the Age  
of Justinian .......................................................................................... 455  
Pauline ALLEN, Brisbane, Australia, and Pretoria, South Africa  
Prolegomena to a Study of the Letter-Bearer in Christian Antiquity 481  
Ariane BODIN, Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, France  
The Outward Appearance of Clerics in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries  
in Italy, Gaul and Africa: Representation and Reality....................... 493  
Christopher BONURA, Gainesville, USA  
The Man and the Myth: Did Heraclius Know the Legend of the Last  
Roman Emperor? ................................................................................ 503  
Petr BALCÁREK, Olomouc, Czech Republic  
The Cult of the Holy Wisdom in Byzantine Palestine....................... 515  
Protreptic Motifs in St Basil’s Homily On the Words  
‘Give Heed to Thyself’  
Olga ALIEVA, National Research University Higher School of Economics,  
Moscow, Russia  
ABSTRACT  
The article considers some protreptic motifs of the First Alcibiades in St Basil’s homily  
On the Words ‘Give Heed to Thyself’. Dealing with a verse from Deuteronomy (15:9:  
Prósexe seaut¬ç etc.). St Basil evidently regards it as a biblical counterpart of the  
Delphic maxim gn¬qi sautón, using the sacred text to impel his audience to virtue and  
self-knowledge. In the second part of this article we highlight some parallels between  
St Basil’s text, Porphyry’s writing Perì toÕ gn¬qi sautón, the Preparation for the  
Gospel XI 27 of Eusebius of Caesarea and the Address to Origen traditionally ascribed  
to Gregory Thaumaturgus. We finally point to similar interpretations of Prósexe  
seaut¬ç in Philo’s treaty On the Migration of Abraham and in Clement of Alexandria’s  
Stromata. In conclusion, we argue that both in choice and in elaboration of his subject  
St Basil follows the platonic tradition; in compliance with this tradition St Basil associ-  
ates the protreptic motifs of the First Alcibiades with the motifs of immortality and  
the knowledge of God. Just like for Porphyry and (as far as we can judge) for Origen,  
self-knowledge is not an end in itself for him; impelling his audience to ‘give heed’ he  
urges them to ascend towards the knowledge of God, which is the true philosophy for  
him. The genre of the philosophical protreptic, whose traits we find in the homily, turns  
out to be opportune precisely because for St Basil, along with the earlier Christian writers,  
it is Christianity which is the only real philosophy.  
St Basil’s homily On the Words ‘Give Heed to Thyself’1 is sometimes referred  
to as an exegetical writing,2 since formally it is an interpretation of a line from  
Deut. 15:9. However, one shouldn’t expect to find in this homily an enquiry  
into the meaning of the verse in question. My purpose on this occasion is to  
demonstrate that the way St Basil dealt with the verse from Deut. had been  
1
PG 31, 197-217; Stig Rudberg, L’homélie de Basile de Césarée sur le mot ‘Observe-toi toi  
-
même’: Édition critique du texte grec et étude sur la tradition manuscrite (Stockholm, 1962).  
Hereinafter references to this edition of St Basil’s homily are given in parentheses in the body of  
the paper. The English translation we use is that of Mary Monica Wagner, see: Basil, Saint Bishop  
of Caesarea, Ascetical works, Fathers of the Church 9 (Washington, 1950), 431-46.  
2
Jean Bernardi, La prédication des Pères Cappadociens: le prédicateur et son auditoire (Paris,  
1968), 67.  
Studia Patristica LXII, 69-78.  
© Peeters Publishers, 2013.  
70  
O. ALIEVA  
determined by protreptic literature, notably by the First Alcibiades. In the first part  
of this paper I shall highlight some motifs of this dialogue. Since we can hardly  
assume that St Basil developed this subject independently, the second part of  
our paper is dedicated to scholarly interpretations of this dialogue and their  
supposed influence upon St Basil’s homily. Finally, we’ll focus on reasons why  
St Basil chose Deut. 15:9 to impel his audience to virtue and self-knowledge.  
Motifs of the First Alcibiades in St Basil’s homily  
Although the First Alcibiades is believed to spurious,3 nevertheless it ‘has been  
read as a convenient introduction to Plato ever since antiquity’.4 Albinus  
(II AD) in his Eîsagwgß recommends that the course of the Platonic philoso-  
phy should begin with this dialogue.5 Aelius Aristides (II AD) in Pròv Plá-  
twna üpèr t¬n tettárwn compares the First Alcibiades with the Alcibiades  
of Aeschines and points to the protreptic function of both.6 According to Pro-  
clus, ‘the divine Iamblichus allotted it the first place among the ten dialogues  
in which he conceives the whole philosophy of Plato to be contained, their  
entire subsequent development being anticipated as it were in seminal form in  
this dialogue’.7 One of the extant Iamblichus’ texts, the Protrepticus, contains  
a passage paraphrasing the First Alcibiades, which also corroborates the  
assumption that certain motifs and arguments of this dialogue were regarded as  
exhortative in antiquity.8  
In the homily On the Words ‘Give Heed to Thyself’ we find several motifs  
reminiscent of the First Alcibiades. First of all, both in the First Alcibiades and  
in St Basil’s homily self-knowledge is closely associated with care for one’s  
soul. In the dialogue Socrates associates the Delphic maxim with êpiméleia  
ëautoÕ:9 ‘Listen to me and the Delphic motto, Know thyself (gn¬qi sautón);  
3
For a survey on this question see: Jakub Jirsa, ‘Authenticity of the Alcibiades I: Some  
Reflections’, Listy filologické 132 (2009), 225-44.  
4
Holger Thesleff, Studies in Platonic Chronology (Helsinki, 1982), 215.  
Albinus, Introductio in Platonem 5.15-7, ed. Karl F. Hermann, Platonis dialogi secundum  
5
Thrasylli tetralogias dispositi (Leipzig, 1853), VI 147-51, here 149: ãrzetai âpò toÕ ˆAlkibiádou  
pròv tò trap nai kaì êpistraf nai kaì gn¬nai oœ de⁄ t®n êpiméleian poie⁄sqai.  
6
Aelius Aristides, Pròv Plátwna üpèr t¬n tettárwn, ed. Wilhelm Dindorf, Aristides  
(Leipzig, 1829) II 156-414, here 369 (= Jebb 286): eîv tò protrécai.  
7
Proclus, In Platonis Alcibiadem I 11.12, ed. Leendert G. Westerink, Proclus Diadochus:  
Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato (Amsterdam, 1954). Translation: John Dillon,  
Iamblichi Chalcidensis in Platonis Dialogos Commentariorum Fragmenta, Philosophia antiqua 23  
(Leiden, 1973), 72-3.  
8
Jamblique, Protreptique, ed. Eduard des Places, CUF 325 (Paris, 1989), 58-9 (= Pistelli 27.12-  
21; 28.20-29.14).  
9
Courcelle points out that the Delphic motto used to have various philosophical interpretations  
in antiquity, see Pierre Courcelle, ‘Connais-toi toi-meme’, de Socrate à saint Bernard (Paris,  
Protreptic Motifs in St Basil’s Homily On the Words ‘Give Heed to Thyself’  
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for these people [the Persians – O.A.] are our competitors … and there is noth-  
ing that will give us ascendancy over them save only pains (êpimeleíaç) and  
skill’.10 For Socrates self-knowledge is a prerequisite for êpiméleia ëautoÕ:  
‘If we have that knowledge, we are like to know what pains to take over our-  
selves; but if we have it not, we never can’.11 He goes on to identify self-  
knowledge with the knowledge of one’s soul and concludes that the Delphic  
maxim ‘bids us become acquainted with the soul’.12  
Dealing with a verse from Deuteronomy (15:9: Prósexe seaut¬ç, mß pote  
génjtai Å ma kruptòn ên t Ç kardíaç sou ânómjma) St Basil evidently  
considers it as a biblical counterpart of the Delphic maxim, although there’s  
nothing in the text of Deuteronomy that might provoke such an interpretation.  
The verse says:  
Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the  
year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou  
givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.  
St Basil borrows just one line from the whole verse: ‘Beware that there be not  
a thought in thy wicked heart’. After a brief discussion of this line in the intro-  
duction to his homily, he skips to the interpretation of the first two words only,  
Prósexe seaut¬ç, which enables him to introduce some protreptic motifs in  
the homily, one of them is that of cux v êpiméleia. Thus, he says, ‘“Give heed  
to thyself”, that is, to your soul (t Ç cux Ç)’. And further:  
Adorn it, care for it (êpimeloÕ), to the end that, by careful intention, every defilement  
incurred as a result of sin may be removed and every shameful vice expelled, and that  
it may be embellished and made bright with every ornament of virtue (27.7-10).  
Secondly, both the author of the First Alcibiades and St Basil identify the self  
and the soul. In the dialogue the interlocutors inquire whether we should iden-  
tify the self with the soul, the body or the possessions of the body. They finally  
conclude that it is the soul we should care for, not our body or possessions.  
Man ‘turns out to be nothing else than soul’,13 which is ‘the self itself’, Socrates  
says. It follows therefore that without knowing ourselves (™m¢v aûtoúv) we can’t  
know our belongings (tà ™métera) or our belongings’ belongings (tà t¬n  
™metérwn).14 We find this threefold division in St Basil’s homily also:  
1974), I 12: ‘… Le succès du “ Connait-toi toi-même ” tient à l’emploi littéraire qui en fut fait  
dès une haute époque et aux interprétations philosophiques très diverses auxquelles il se prêtait’.  
10  
(Ps.-)Plato, Alcibiades I, 124a8-b3. Hereinafter the translation is: Plato, Charmides; Alcibi-  
ades I and II; Hipparchus; The lovers; Theages; Minos; Epinomis, trans. by Walter R.M. Lamb,  
Loeb Classical Library 201 (London and New York, 1927), VIII.  
11  
(Ps.-)Plato, Alcibiades I, 129a7-9: gnóntev mèn aûtò táx’ ån gno⁄men t®n êpiméleian  
™m¬n aût¬n, âgnooÕntev dè oûk ãn pote.  
12  
Ibid. 130e8-9: Cux®n ãra ™m¢v keleúei gnwrísai ö êpitáttwn gn¬nai ëautón.  
Ibid. 130c3: mjdèn ãllo tòn ãnqrwpon sumbaínein Æ cuxßn.  
Ibid. 133d5-8.  
13  
14  
72  
O. ALIEVA  
‘Give heed to thyself’ – that is, attend neither to the goods you possess nor to the  
objects that are round about you, but to yourself alone. We ourselves (™me⁄v aûtoí) are  
one thing; our possessions (tà ™métera) another; the objects that surround us (tà perì  
™m¢v), yet another. We are soul and intellect (™ cux® kaì ö noÕv) in that we have been  
made according to the image of the Creator. Our body is our own possession and the  
sensations which are expressed through it, but money, crafts, and other appurtenances  
of life in this world are extraneous to us (26.15-27.2).  
To illustrate the meaning of the Delphic inscription that impels us to know our  
soul, Socrates recurs to a comparison with the power of sight:  
If an eye (ôfqalmóv) is to see itself, it must look at an eye, and at that region of the  
eye (toÕ ∫mmatov) in which the virtue of an eye is found to occur; and this, I presume,  
is sight … And if the soul (cuxß) … is to know herself, she must surely look at a soul,  
and especially at that region of it in which occurs the virtue of a soul – wisdom…15  
Speaking of the ‘faculty of attention’, which may refer either ‘to absorption in  
visible objects’ or ‘to an intellectual gaze at incorporeal realities’ St Basil seems  
to follow Socrates’ thought in the First Alcibiades:  
How could one encompass his whole person with a glance (t¬ç ôfqalm¬ç)? The eye  
doesn’t apply its power of sight to itself … It remains, therefore, to interpret the precept  
as referring to a mental action (tàv katà noÕn ênergeíav). ‘Give heed to thyself’ – that  
is, examine yourself from all angles. Keep the eye of your soul (tò t v cux v ∫mma)  
sleeplessly on guard… (25.21-26.6).  
Although in these texts the capacity of the soul (cuxß) to know herself is  
compared to the power of sight (both authors mention ôfqalmóv and ∫mma),  
the similarities are not verbatim.16 However, the context in which the motifs  
of the First Alcibiades occur in St Basil’s homily enables us to assume that  
he was well aware of the scholastic interpretations of this dialogue. To these  
interpretations the second part of our paper is dedicated.  
Motifs of immortality and the knowledge of God  
It’s obvious that the subject of St Basil’s homily is not limited to the topic of  
the First Alcibiades and that the exhortative motifs of the latter are used in the  
homily in a different context, notably in that of immortality and the knowledge  
of God. Self-knowledge for St Basil is in the first place the way to ascend  
towards the knowledge of God:  
15  
Ibid. 133b2-10.  
16  
They rarely are in St Basil, who always adjusts his sources to his own literary purposes.  
See, e.g., Ernesto Valgiglio, ‘Basilio Magno Ad adulescentes e Plutarco De audiendis poetis’,  
Rivista di Studi Classici 23 (1975), 67-85.  
Protreptic Motifs in St Basil’s Homily On the Words ‘Give Heed to Thyself’  
73  
Scrupulous attention to yourself will be of itself sufficient to guide you to the knowl-  
edge of God. If you give heed to yourself, you will not need to look for signs of the  
Creator in the structure of the universe; but in yourself, as in a miniature replica of  
cosmic order (oïoneì mikr¬ç tini diakósmwç), you will contemplate the great wisdom  
of the Creator (35.13-5).  
The expression mikr¬ç tini diakósmwç, as well as the combination of the motifs  
of self-knowledge and the knowledge of God brings to mind Porphyry’s text  
Perì toÕ gn¬qi sautón, preserved by Stobaeus in his Anthology (along with  
the First Alcibiades) in the chapter dedicated to self-knowledge.17 Porphyry  
considers the Delphic maxim as an invitation to philosophy (oûdèn ãllo  
keleúein Æ filosofe⁄n), since the man is nothing else than ‘a miniature  
replica of the cosmic order’ (mikròn diákosmon).18 As Bennett puts it, for  
Porphyry to know oneself is to ‘recognize man as a microcosm who fittingly  
prepares himself to contemplate the macrocosm, the universe’.19 Although  
Porphyry doesn’t mention the First Alcibiades directly (referring, however, to  
other Plato’s dialogues), we find in his writing the above mentioned division  
™m¢v aûtoúv tà ™métera tà t¬n ™metérwn which dates back to the dia-  
logue.20 It is also beyond any doubt that a representative of the platonic school  
could not possibly bypass this dialogue while dwelling upon self-knowledge.  
Nevertheless Porphyry’s text has some novelties as compared with the First  
Alcibiades. According to Porphyry, to know oneself comprises the knowledge  
of one’s soul and one’s intellect (t®n cux®n kaì tòn noÕn21) – not just soul,  
as Socrates argues in the dialogue. Secondly, for Porphyry self-knowledge  
implies the cognition of the immortal human essence; he distinguishes the  
‘inner man’ (ö êntòv âqánatov) and the ‘external’ one (ö êktòv eîkonikóv)  
saying that the former is immortal, the latter is mortal.22  
It is under Porphyry’s influence another 4th century Christian author, Euse-  
bius of Caesarea, cites the First Alcibiades in his Preparation for the Gospel  
17  
Stobaeus, Anthologium, III 21.26-8, ed. Curt Wachsmuth and Otto Hense, Ioannis Stobaei  
anthologium, 5 vols. (Berlin, 1884-1912).  
18  
Ibid. III 21.27.10-1.  
19  
Jack A.W. Bennett, The Humane Medievalist and Other Essays in English Literature and  
Learning, from Chaucer to Eliot (Roma, 1982), 37. See Stobaeus, Anthologium III 21.27.12-4:  
™m⁄n ânabaínousin êpì t®n toÕ pantòv qewrían.  
20  
Stobaeus, Anthologium III 21.28.21-5: tò mèn oŒn gignÉskein ëautòn t®n ânaforàn  
∂oiken ∂xein êpì tò gignÉskein de⁄n t®n cux®n kaì tòn noÕn, Üv ên toútwç ™m¬n oûsiw-  
ménwn· tò dè pántjÇ gignÉskein ëautòn sumperilambánein ∂oiken ™m¢v kaì tà ™métera  
kaì tà t¬n ™metérwn. P. Courcelle, ‘Connais-toi toi-meme’ (1974), I 8832 mentions the influence  
of the First Alcibiades upon Porphyry’s writing.  
21  
Ibid. III 21.28.23.  
22  
Stobaeus, Anthologium III 21.28.28-34: pálin pántjÇ gn¬nai ëautón, ÿna kaì ö êntòv  
âqánatov gnwsq Ç ãnqrwpov kaì ö êktòv eîkonikòv m® âgnojq Ç kaì tà toútoiv diaféronta  
gnÉrima génjtai. diaférei mèn gàr t¬ç êntòv pantéleiov noÕv, ên ˜ç aûtòv ãnqrwpov, oœ  
eîkÑn ∏kastov ™m¬n· diaférei dè t¬ç êktòv eîdÉlwç tà perì tò s¬ma kaì tàv ktßseiv.  
74  
O. ALIEVA  
(XI 27.5 = 133c1-16) in the chapter dedicated to immortality.23 ‘In the doctrine  
of the immortality of the soul Plato differs not at all in opinion from Moses’,  
Eusebius remarks introducing a quotation from the dialogue.24 Interpreting a  
verse from Genesis (2:7), Eusebius says that the man is compound of ‘the vis-  
ible body (tò fainómenon s¬ma) and the man of the soul (tòn katà cux®n  
nooúmenon) that is discerned only by the mind’.25 The biblical words that God  
created man in His own image and likeliness (eîkÑn qeoÕ kaì ömoíwma) refer  
‘to the powers that are in God (katà tàv ên t¬ç qe¬ç dunámeiv26), and to the  
likeness of virtue (kaì katà t®n t v âret v ömoiótjta)’, Eusebius continues.27  
In the First Alcibiades, he maintains, Plato ‘speaks on this point also as one  
who had been taught by Moses’. The reference to the ömoíwma qeoÕ with  
regard to the dialogue seems more natural in light of the interpolation attested  
by Eusebius in the Preparation for the Gospel. Let us remind that the quotation  
drawn by Eusebius from the First Alcibiades contains several lines absent from  
the manuscript tradition.28 In these lines the image of the mirror is elaborated  
in detail. ‘Just as there are mirrors clearer than the mirror in the eye, and purer  
and brighter, so God is something purer and brighter than the best that is in our  
soul’, Socrates argues in this interpolation. So, by looking at God, we would  
know ourselves best.29 The image of God-mirror enables Eusebius to associate  
the dialogue with the t v âret v ömoiótjv motif and to shift the emphasis of  
the dialogue from the ethical problems to metaphysical ones.  
The motifs of self-knowledge, the likeliness of divine and human virtue along  
with the image of the God-mirror occur in the Address to Origen, written by  
St Gregory of Neocaesarea or, as some scholars suppose, by some other student  
23  
Eusèbe de Césarée, La Préparation Évangélique, Livre XI, introd., trad. et commentaire  
par Geneviève Favrelle. Texte grec rév. par Édouard des Places, SC 292 (Paris, 1982). The influ-  
ence of Porphyry is ‘peut-être decisive’, Geneviève Favrelle argues: this influence ‘est du moins  
une raison de cette association par Eusèbe des thèmes de l’Alcibiade et de l’idée de l’immortalité  
de l’âme’, Geneviève Favrelle, ‘Le platonisme d’Eusèbe’, in Eusèbe de Césarée, La Préparation  
Évangélique, 350-91, 358.  
24  
References to the English translation of this text are made according to Edwin H. Gifford,  
Eusebii Pamphili Evangelicae Praeparationis Libri XV (Oxford, 1903), III, pars prior.  
25  
See note 22 and 2Cor. 16: eî kaì ö ∂zw ™m¬n ãnqrwpov diafqeíretai, âllö ∂sw ™m¬n  
ânakainoÕtai ™méraç kaì ™méraç.  
26  
See Porphyry apud Stobaeus, Anthologium III 21.28.34: ˜n de⁄ kaì tàv dunámeiv gig-  
nÉskein etc.  
27  
Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica XI 27.5.  
According to Favrelle, Eusebius neatly incorporated a marginal gloss into the dialogue,  
28  
associating it with the meaning of the whole chapter. Another source for this passage is Stobaeus,  
but he is more careless in incorporating the gloss which leads to a repetition. G. Favrelle, ‘Le  
platonisme d’Eusèbe’ (1982), 374: ‘… il semble alors que Stobée ait mal introduit une glose  
marginal dans le corps du dialogue – lui ou sa source – et qu’il se soit rattrapé en repentant le  
membre de phrase prématurément copié. Eusèbe, au contraire, a pertinemment accroché un com-  
mentaire à une idée importante…’  
29  
(Ps.-)Plato, Alcibiades I, 133c8-16.  
Protreptic Motifs in St Basil’s Homily On the Words ‘Give Heed to Thyself’  
75  
of Origen.30 This text was available at Caesarea and thus could have influenced  
Eusebius’ perception of the dialogue.31 Describing his master’s pedagogical  
methods, the author of the Address says that Origen taught his students to care  
for their souls (êpimélesqai32) by knowing themselves (ëautoùv ginÉskein33):  
… he taught that prudence consisted in the soul’s remaining self-contained, and in the  
desire and endeavour to know ourselves, this the noblest task of philosophy, which is  
ascribed to the most prophetic of spirits as the prime maxim of wisdom – ‘Know thyself’.  
That this is the true work of wisdom and this the divine wisdom, is well said by the  
ancients, and that the virtue of God and of man is veritably the same (t®n aût®n ∫ntwv  
oŒsan qeoÕ kaì ânqrÉpou âretßn), when the soul studies to see herself as in a mir-  
ror (¿sper ên katóptrwç), and also mirrors (katoptrihoménjv) the divine mind in  
herself (if she becomes worthy of such fellowship), and traces out an unutterable path  
of this apotheosis.34  
As Favrelle rightly points out, ‘ce texte commente l’Alcibiade dans le sens du  
néoplatonisme; mail il exprime aussi des idées voisines de celles d’Eusèbe dans  
son chapitre sur l’immortalité de l’âme: la similitude de la vertu en l’homme  
et en Dieu, rapprochée du texte de l’Alcibiade sur la connaisance de soi et le  
symbole du miroir’.35 A valuable observation was made by Pierre Courcelle,  
who noticed that the motif of self-knowledge occurs in the Address ‘en des  
termes très proches de l’Alcibiade et plus encore de l’interpolation attestée par  
Eusèbe de Césarée’.36 It should, however, also be noticed, that the participle  
katoptrihoménjv is reminiscent of 2Cor. 3:18:37 ‘But we all, with open face  
beholding (katoptrihómenoi) as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed  
into the same image from glory to glory’. So, already as late as in the time of  
Origen the exhortative motifs of the First Alcibiades were closely associated  
with St Paul’s words in the 2Cor.; we also find in the Address the idea of  
likeliness between the divine and the human virtue (t®n aût®n ∫ntwv oŒsan  
qeoÕ kaì ânqrÉpou âretßn) which is associated here with the image of the  
30  
On the authorship see Pierre Nautin, Origène: Sa vie et son œuvre (Paris, 1977), 155-61,  
183-7. On the influence of this writing on St Basil see Mario Naldini, Basilio di Cesarea: Discorso  
4
ai giovani (Bologna, 2005 [11984]), 30-58.  
31  
Andrew James Carriker, The Library of Eusebius of Caesarea, Supplements to Vigiliae  
Christianae 67 (Leiden, 2003), 241: ‘According to the ecclesiastical historian Socrates (IV.27),  
Gregory Thaumaturgus’ panegyric of Origen was included in the Defense of Origen and thus was,  
not surprisingly, available at Caesarea.’  
32  
Gregorius Thaumaturgus, In Origenem oratio panegyrica 11,39, ed. Henri Crouzel, Saint  
Gregoire le Thaumaturge, Remerciement à Origène, suivi de la lettre d’Origène à Grégoire, SC  
148 (Paris, 1969).  
33  
Ibid. 11,45.  
34  
Gregorius Thaumaturgus, In Origenem oratio panegyrica 11,44-54. Translation: William Charles  
Metcalfe, Address to Origen (London and New York, 1920), 73.  
35  
G. Favrelle, ‘Le platonisme d’Eusèbe’ (1982), 358.  
P. Courcelle, ‘Connais-toi toi-meme’ (1974), 101.  
See Henri Crouzel, Saint Gregoire le Thaumaturge, Remerciement à Origène (1969), 154.  
36  
37  
76  
O. ALIEVA  
mirror. We cautiously assume that Porphyry himself was acquainted with  
Origen’s interpretation; the etymology of the word swfrosúnj, which we find  
in both writings, is one of the indications. Thus, according to Porphyry swf-  
rosúnj springs from sofrosúnj and impels therefore to save the frónj-  
siv.38 A parallel to this passage is found in the Address to Origen:  
… we are temperate (swfrone⁄n), he said, when we preserve the wisdom of the soul  
(diaswhoménouv t®n frónjsin) which knows herself; if it has accrued to her, for this  
in turn is Temperance, a certain saving knowledge (sÉan tinà frónjsin oŒsan)…39  
Now, returning to the subject of this article, we should notice that St. Basil also  
considers self-knowledge in close connection with immortality:  
Examine closely what sort of being you are. Know your nature – that your body is  
mortal, but your soul, immortal; that your life has two denotations, so to speak: one  
relating to the flesh, and this life is quickly over, the other referring to the soul, life  
without limit. ‘Give heed to thyself’ – cling not to the mortal as if it were eternal;  
disdain not that which is eternal as if it were temporal. Despise the flesh for it passes  
away; be solicitous for your soul which will never die (27.11-6).  
It is also noteworthy that Basil just like Porphyry identifies the self with the noÕv,  
whereas in the First Alcibiades only soul is mentioned: ‘We are soul and intellect  
in that we have been made according to the image of the Creator…’ (26.17).  
The Delphic maxim and Prósexe seaut¬ç in Philo and Clement  
The fact that Porphyry knew the writings of Origen is attested by Eusebius who  
cites Porphyry in his Church History:  
For they [i.e. Christians – O.A.] boast that the plain words of Moses are enigmas, and  
regard them as oracles (qespísmata), full of hidden mysteries; and having bewildered  
the mental judgment by folly, they make their explanations. Farther on he [Porphyry –  
O.A.] says: As an example of this absurdity take a man whom I met when I was young,  
and who was then greatly celebrated and still is, on account of the writings which he has  
left. I refer to Origen, who is highly honored by the teachers of these doctrines.40  
Porphyry’s testimony that the Christians regarded ‘the plain words of Moses’ as  
oracles is of particular interest for us; however we failed to find any associations  
38  
Stobaeus, Anthologium III 21.27.3-6: kaì gàr swfrosúnj sofrosúnj tiv ¥n· oÀtw dè  
pròv tò fronoÕn kaì toÕ frone⁄n a÷tion dialégoit’ ån, sÉçhein ëautò parakeleuómenov·  
toÕto d’ ån e÷j ö noÕv.  
39  
Gregorius Thaumaturgus, In Origenem oratio panegyrica 11,55-8.  
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. VI 19.5. Translated by Arthur C. McGiffert, in Eusebius, Church His-  
40  
tory, Life of Constantine the Great, and Oration in Praise of Constantine, A Select Library of  
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church 1, Second Series (Oxford and New York,  
1890).  
Protreptic Motifs in St Basil’s Homily On the Words ‘Give Heed to Thyself’  
77  
of the Delphic maxim41 with the biblical Prósexe seaut¬ç in Origen’s writ-  
ings. Such association can be found in Clement, Origen’s predecessor as the  
head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria. In the second book of the Stro-  
mata he says: ‘“Know thyself” is more clearly and often expressed by Moses,  
when he enjoins, “Take heed to thyself”’.42 In the fifth book he associates the  
motif of self-knowledge with that of immortality:  
Similarly also the maxim ‘Know thyself’ shows many things; both that thou art mortal,  
and that thou wast born a human being; and also that, in comparison with the other  
excellences of life, thou art of no account, because thou sayest that thou art rich or  
renowned; or, on the other hand, that, being rich or renowned, you are not honoured  
on account of your advantages alone. And it says, Know for what thou wert born, and  
whose image thou art; and what is thy essence, and what thy creation, and what thy  
relation to God, and the like.43  
In Philo of Alexandria’s treaty On the Migration of Abraham we also find this  
association. Interpreting Gen. 12:1: ‘Depart from thy land, and from thy kin-  
dred, and from thy father’s house to a land which I will show thee’, Philo says  
that this verse impels the man to ‘alienate’ from the body, the outward senses  
and uttered speech correspondingly.  
Be alienated from them in your mind, allowing none of them to cling to you, standing  
above them all; they are your subjects, use them not as your rulers; since you are a  
king, learn to govern and not to be governed; know yourself (gínwske seautón) all  
your life, as Moses teaches us in many passages where he says, ‘Take heed to Thyself’  
(prósexe seaut¬ç).44  
It should be noted that Philo not only regards these expressions as synonymous,  
but uses them in the same context as St Basil, speaking of the ruling position  
of the soul in the human being and of the necessity to ‘govern’ the body.  
To sum it up, we argue that both in choice and in elaboration of his subject St  
Basil follows the platonic tradition, notably Philo and Porphyry. The influence  
of Philo who regarded prósexe seaut¬ç and gínwske seautón as practically  
41  
On the motif of self-knowledge in Origen see P. Courcelle, ‘Connais-toi toi-meme’ (1974),  
97-100.  
42  
Clemens Alexandrinus, Stromata II 15.71.4: safésteron dè tò «gn¬qi sautòn»  
pareggu¬n ö Mwus v légei pollákiv· «prósexe seaut¬ç». Translated by the rev. Alexander  
Roberts and James Donaldson, see Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, or Miscellanies, in Ante-  
Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325 (New York, 1913),  
II 229-568.  
43  
Ibid. V 4.23.1.  
44  
Philo Judaeus, De migratione Abrahami 8.3: gínwske seautón, Üv kaì Mwus v pol-  
laxoÕ didáskei légwn prósexe seaut¬ç’. Translation: The Works of Philo Judaeus, translated  
by C.D. Yonge (London, 1854), II 43-93. This treaty in Eusebius, Hist. eccl. II 18.4, see: A.J. Car-  
riker, The Library of Eusebius (2003), 168.  
78  
O. ALIEVA  
synonymous constructions was, in all likelihood, mediated by Clement of  
Alexandria and Origen. It was the latter who, judging from the Address to  
Origen, associated the image of the mirror in the First Alcibiades with the motif  
of the knowledge of God and the corresponding passage from the 2Cor. Though  
we cannot be sure in this regard, it seems probable that it was Origen or one  
of his closest students who wrote the gloss, incorporated later by Eusebius and  
by Stobaeus in the text of the dialogue. In interpreting the Delphic precept as  
an injunction to ascend towards the contemplation of the macrocosm (êpì t®n  
toÕ pantòv qewrían45), Porphyry is also likely to have had Origen’s interpre-  
tation in mind; as for Eusebius, he relied both on Origen and on Porphyry.  
Elaborating the protreptic topic of the First Alcibiades (self-knowledge and  
care for one’s soul) St Basil in compliance with the above mentioned tradition  
shifts the emphasis to the metaphysical problems, such as that of immortality and  
the knowledge of God. Just like for Porphyry and (as far as we can judge) for  
Origen, self-knowledge is not an end in itself for him; impelling his audience  
to ‘give heed’ he urges them to ascend towards the knowledge of God, which  
is the true philosophy for him. The genre of the philosophical protreptic, whose  
traits we find in the homily, turns out to be opportune precisely because for  
St Basil, along with the earlier Christian writers, it is Christianity which is the  
only real philosophy.  
45  
Stobaeus, Anthologium III 21.27.12-4.  
STUDIA PATRISTICA  
PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL  
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Volume 1  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LIII  
FORMER DIRECTORS  
Gillian CLARK, Bristol, UK  
60 Years (1951-2011) of the International Conference on Patristic  
Studies at Oxford: Key Figures – An Introductory Note...................  
3
5
9
Elizabeth LIVINGSTONE, Oxford, UK  
F.L. Cross.............................................................................................  
Frances YOUNG, Birmingham, UK  
Maurice Frank Wiles...........................................................................  
Catherine ROWETT, University of East Anglia, UK  
Christopher Stead (1913-2008): His Work on Patristics..................... 17  
Archbishop Rowan WILLIAMS, London, UK  
Henry Chadwick.................................................................................. 31  
Mark EDWARDS, Christ Church, Oxford, UK, and Markus VINZENT,  
King’s College, London, UK  
J.N.D. Kelly ......................................................................................... 43  
Éric REBILLARD, Ithaca, NY, USA  
William Hugh Clifford Frend (1916-2005): The Legacy of The  
Donatist Church.................................................................................. 55  
William E. KLINGSHIRN, Washington, D.C., USA  
Theology and History in the Thought of Robert Austin Markus ...... 73  
Volume 2  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LIV  
BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS IN PATRISTIC TEXTS  
(ed. Laurence Mellerin and Hugh A.G. Houghton)  
Laurence MELLERIN, Lyon, France, and Hugh A.G. HOUGHTON, Birming-  
ham, UK  
Introduction .........................................................................................  
3
4
Table of Contents  
Laurence MELLERIN, Lyon, France  
Methodological Issues in Biblindex, An Online Index of Biblical  
Quotations in Early Christian Literature............................................ 11  
Guillaume BADY, Lyon, France  
Quelle était la Bible des Pères, ou quel texte de la Septante choisir  
pour Biblindex? ................................................................................... 33  
Guillaume BADY, Lyon, France  
3 Esdras chez les Pères de l’Église: Lambiguïté des données et les  
conditions d’intégration d’un ‘apocryphe’ dans Biblindex................. 39  
Jérémy DELMULLE, Paris, France  
Augustin dans «Biblindex». Un premier test: le traitement du De  
Magistro............................................................................................... 55  
Hugh A.G. HOUGHTON, Birmingham, UK  
Patristic Evidence in the New Edition of the Vetus Latina Iohannes 69  
Amy M. DONALDSON, Portland, Oregon, USA  
Explicit References to New Testament Textual Variants by the Church  
Fathers: Their Value and Limitations................................................. 87  
Ulrich Bernhard SCHMID, Schöppingen, Germany  
Marcion and the Textual History of Romans: Editorial Activity and  
Early Editions of the New Testament ................................................. 99  
Jeffrey KLOHA, St Louis, USA  
The New Testament Text of Nicetas of Remesiana, with Reference  
to Luke 1:46......................................................................................... 115  
Volume 3  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LV  
EARLY MONASTICISM AND CLASSICAL PAIDEIA  
(ed. Samuel Rubenson)  
Samuel RUBENSON, Lund, Sweden  
Introduction .........................................................................................  
3
5
Samuel RUBENSON, Lund, Sweden  
The Formation and Re-formations of the Sayings of the Desert Fathers  
Table of Contents  
5
Britt DAHLMAN, Lund, Sweden  
The Collectio Scorialensis Parva: An Alphabetical Collection of Old  
Apophthegmatic and Hagiographic Material...................................... 23  
Bo HOLMBERG, Lund, Sweden  
The Syriac Collection of Apophthegmata Patrum in MS Sin. syr. 46  
35  
Lillian I. LARSEN, Redlands, USA  
On Learning a New Alphabet: The Sayings of the Desert Fathers  
and the Monostichs of Menander........................................................ 59  
Henrik RYDELL JOHNSÉN, Lund, Sweden  
Renunciation, Reorientation and Guidance: Patterns in Early Monas-  
ticism and Ancient Philosophy ........................................................... 79  
David WESTBERG, Uppsala, Sweden  
Rhetorical Exegesis in Procopius of Gaza’s Commentary on Genesis 95  
Apophthegmata Patrum Abbreviations...................................................... 109  
Volume 4  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LVI  
REDISCOVERING ORIGEN  
Lorenzo PERRONE, Bologna, Italy  
Origen’s ‘Confessions: Recovering the Traces of a Self-Portrait......  
3
Róbert SOMOS, University of Pécs, Hungary  
Is the Handmaid Stoic or Middle Platonic? Some Comments on  
Origen’s Use of Logic ......................................................................... 29  
Paul R. KOLBET, Wellesley, USA  
Rethinking the Rationales for Origen’s Use of Allegory................... 41  
Brian BARRETT, South Bend, USA  
Origen’s Spiritual Exegesis as a Defense of the Literal Sense........... 51  
Tina DOLIDZE, Tbilisi, Georgia  
Equivocality of Biblical Language in Origen..................................... 65  
Miyako DEMURA, Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan  
Origen and the Exegetical Tradition of the Sarah-Hagar Motif in  
Alexandria ........................................................................................... 73  
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Elizabeth Ann DIVELY LAURO, Los Angeles, USA  
The Eschatological Significance of Scripture According to Origen... 83  
Lorenzo PERRONE, Bologna, Italy  
Rediscovering Origen Today: First Impressions of the New Collection  
of Homilies on the Psalms in the Codex monacensis Graecus 314.... 103  
Ronald E. HEINE, Eugene, OR, USA  
Origen and his Opponents on Matthew 19:12 .................................... 123  
Allan E. JOHNSON, Minnesota, USA  
Interior Landscape: Origen’s Homily 21 on Luke.............................. 129  
Stephen BAGBY, Durham, UK  
The ‘Two Ways’ Tradition in Origen’s Commentary on Romans...... 135  
Francesco PIERI, Bologna, Italy  
Origen on 1Corinthians: Homilies or Commentary? ........................ 143  
Thomas D. MCGLOTHLIN, Durham, USA  
Resurrection, Spiritual Interpretation, and Moral Reformation: A Func-  
tional Approach to Resurrection in Origen ........................................ 157  
Ilaria L.E. RAMELLI, Milan, Italy, and Durham, UK  
‘Preexistence of Souls’? The ârxß and télov of Rational Creatures  
in Origen and Some Origenians ......................................................... 167  
Ilaria L.E. RAMELLI, Milan, Italy, and Durham, UK  
The Dialogue of Adamantius: A Document of Origen’s Thought?  
(Part Two) ............................................................................................ 227  
Volume 5  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LVII  
EVAGRIUS PONTICUS ON CONTEMPLATION  
(ed. Monica Tobon)  
Monica TOBON, Franciscan International Study Centre, Canterbury, UK  
Introduction .........................................................................................  
3
9
Kevin CORRIGAN, Emory University, USA  
Suffocation or Germination: Infinity, Formation and Calibration of  
the Mind in Evagrius’ Notion of Contemplation................................  
Table of Contents  
7
Monica TOBON, Franciscan International Study Centre, Canterbury, UK  
Reply to Kevin Corrigan, ‘Suffocation or Germination: Infinity,  
Formation and Calibration of the Mind in Evagrius’ Notion of  
Contemplation’..................................................................................... 27  
Fr. Luke DYSINGER, OSB, Saint John’s Seminary, Camarillo, USA  
An Exegetical Way of Seeing: Contemplation and Spiritual Guidance  
in Evagrius Ponticus............................................................................ 31  
Monica TOBON, Franciscan International Study Centre, Canterbury, UK  
Raising Body and Soul to the Order of the Nous: Anthropology and  
Contemplation in Evagrius.................................................................. 51  
Robin Darling YOUNG, University of Notre Dame, USA  
The Path to Contemplation in Evagrius’ Letters ................................ 75  
Volume 6  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LVIII  
NEOPLATONISM AND PATRISTICS  
Victor YUDIN, UCL, OVC, Brussels, Belgium  
Patristic Neoplatonism ........................................................................  
3
Cyril HOVORUN, Kiev, Ukraine  
Influence of Neoplatonism on Formation of Theological Language ... 13  
Luc BRISSON, CNRS, Villejuif, France  
Clement and Cyril of Alexandria: Confronting Platonism with Chris-  
tianity ................................................................................................... 19  
Alexey R. FOKIN, Moscow, Russia  
The Doctrine of the ‘Intelligible Triad’ in Neoplatonism and Patristics  
45  
Jean-Michel COUNET, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium  
Speech Act in the Demiurge’s Address to the Young Gods in  
Timaeus 41 A-B. Interpretations of Greek Philosophers and Patristic  
Receptions ........................................................................................... 73  
István PERCZEL, Hungary  
The Pseudo-Didymian De trinitate and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areo-  
pagite: A Preliminary Study............................................................... 83  
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Table of Contents  
Andrew LOUTH, Durham, UK  
Symbolism and the Angels in Dionysios the Areopagite................... 109  
Demetrios BATHRELLOS, Athens, Greece  
Neo-platonism and Maximus the Confessor on the Knowledge of  
God ...................................................................................................... 117  
Victor YUDIN, UCL, OVC, Brussels, Belgium  
A Stoic Conversion: Porphyry by Plato. Augustine’s Reading of the  
Timaeus 41 a7-b6................................................................................. 127  
Levan GIGINEISHVILI, Ilia State University, Georgia  
Eros in Theology of Ioane Petritsi and Shota Rustaveli..................... 181  
Volume 7  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LIX  
EARLY CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHIES  
(ed. Allen Brent and Markus Vinzent)  
Allen BRENT, London, UK  
Transforming Pagan Cultures .............................................................  
3
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James A. FRANCIS, Lexington, Kentucky, USA  
Seeing God(s): Images and the Divine in Pagan and Christian Thought  
in the Second to Fourth Centuries AD...............................................  
Emanuele CASTELLI, Università di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy  
The Symbols of Anchor and Fish in the Most Ancient Parts of the  
Catacomb of Priscilla: Evidence and Questions ................................ 11  
Catherine C. TAYLOR, Washington, D.C., USA  
Painted Veneration: The Priscilla Catacomb Annunciation and the  
Protoevangelion of James as Precedents for Late Antique Annuncia-  
tion Iconography.................................................................................. 21  
Peter WIDDICOMBE, Hamilton, Canada  
Noah and Foxes: Song of Songs 2:15 and the Patristic Legacy in Text  
and Art................................................................................................. 39  
Catherine Brown TKACZ, Spokane, Washington, USA  
En colligo duo ligna: The Widow of Zarephath and the Cross......... 53  
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György HEIDL, University of Pécs, Hungary  
Early Christian Imagery of the ‘virga virtutis’ and Ambrose’s Theol-  
ogy of Sacraments............................................................................... 69  
Lee M. JEFFERSON, Danville, Kentucky, USA  
Perspectives on the Nude Youth in Fourth-Century Sarcophagi  
Representations of the Raising of Lazarus......................................... 77  
Katharina HEYDEN, Göttingen, Germany  
The Bethesda Sarcophagi: Testimonies to Holy Land Piety in the  
Western Theodosian Empire............................................................... 89  
Anne KARAHAN, Stockholm, Sweden, and Istanbul, Turkey  
The Image of God in Byzantine Cappadocia and the Issue of  
Supreme Transcendence...................................................................... 97  
George ZOGRAFIDIS, Thessaloniki, Greece  
Is a Patristic Aesthetics Possible? The Eastern Paradigm Re-examined 113  
Volume 8  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LX  
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LATE ANTIQUE SPECTACULA  
(ed. Karin Schlapbach)  
Karin SCHLAPBACH, Ottawa, Canada  
Introduction. New Perspectives on Late Antique spectacula: Between  
Reality and Imagination......................................................................  
3
7
Karin SCHLAPBACH, Ottawa, Canada  
Literary Technique and the Critique of spectacula in the Letters of  
Paulinus of Nola..................................................................................  
Alexander PUK, Heidelberg, Germany  
A Success Story: Why did the Late Ancient Theatre Continue? ...... 21  
Juan Antonio JIMÉNEZ SÁNCHEZ, Barcelona, Spain  
The Monk Hypatius and the Olympic Games of Chalcedon............. 39  
Andrew W. WHITE, Stratford University, Woodbridge, Virginia, USA  
Mime and the Secular Sphere: Notes on Choricius’ Apologia Mimo-  
rum....................................................................................................... 47  
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David POTTER, The University of Michigan, USA  
Anatomies of Violence: Entertainment and Politics in the Eastern  
Roman Empire from Theodosius I to Heraclius................................. 61  
Annewies VAN DEN HOEK, Harvard, USA  
Execution as Entertainment: The Roman Context of Martyrdom..... 73  
Volume 9  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LXI  
THE HOLY SPIRIT AND DIVINE INSPIRATION IN AUGUSTINE  
(ed. Jonathan Yates)  
Anthony DUPONT, Leuven, Belgium  
Augustine’s Preaching on Grace at Pentecost .......................................  
3
Geert M.A. VAN REYN, Leuven, Belgium  
Divine Inspiration in Virgil’s Aeneid and Augustine’s Christian Alter-  
native in Confessiones......................................................................... 15  
Anne-Isabelle BOUTON-TOUBOULIC, Bordeaux, France  
Consonance and Dissonance: The Unifying Action of the Holy Ghost  
in Saint Augustine............................................................................... 31  
Matthew Alan GAUMER, Leuven, Belgium, and Kaiserslautern, Germany  
Against the Holy Spirit: Augustine of Hippo’s Polemical Use of the  
Holy Spirit against the Donatists........................................................ 53  
Diana STANCIU, KU Leuven, Belgium  
Augustine’s (Neo)Platonic Soul and Anti-Pelagian Spirit.................. 63  
Volume 10  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LXII  
THE GENRES OF LATE ANTIQUE LITERATURE  
Yuri SHICHALIN, Moscow, Russia  
The Traditional View of Late Platonism as a Self-contained System  
3
Bernard POUDERON, Tours, France  
Y a-t-il lieu de parler de genre littéraire à propos des Apologies du  
second siècle? ...................................................................................... 11  
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John DILLON, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland  
Protreptic Epistolography, Hellenic and Christian ............................. 29  
Svetlana MESYATS, Moscow, Russia  
Does the First have a Hypostasis? Some Remarks to the History of  
the Term hypostasis in Platonic and Christian Tradition of the 4th –  
5th Centuries AD ................................................................................. 41  
Anna USACHEVA, Moscow, Russia  
The Term panßguriv in the Holy Bible and Christian Literature of the  
Fourth Century and the Development of Christian Panegyric Genre  
57  
Olga ALIEVA, National Research University Higher School of Economics,  
Moscow, Russia  
Protreptic Motifs in St Basil’s Homily On the Words ‘Give Heed to  
Thyself’ ................................................................................................ 69  
FOUCAULT AND THE PRACTICE OF PATRISTICS  
David NEWHEISER, Chicago, USA  
Foucault and the Practice of Patristics................................................ 81  
Devin SINGH, New Haven, USA  
Disciplining Eusebius: Discursive Power and Representation of the  
Court Theologian................................................................................. 89  
Rick ELGENDY, Chicago, USA  
Practices of the Self and (Spiritually) Disciplined Resistance: What  
Michel Foucault Could Have Said about Gregory of Nyssa .............. 103  
Marika ROSE, Durham, UK  
Patristics after Foucault: Genealogy, History and the Question of  
Justice .................................................................................................. 115  
PATRISTIC STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICA  
Patricia Andrea CINER, Argentina  
Los Estudios Patrísticos en Latinoamérica: pasado, presente y future 123  
Edinei DA ROSA CÂNDIDO, Florianópolis, Brasil  
Proposta para publicações patrísticas no Brasil e América Latina: os  
seis anos dos Cadernos Patrísticos...................................................... 131  
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Oscar VELÁSQUEZ, Santiago de Chile, Chile  
La historia de la patrística en Chile: un largo proceso de maduración 135  
HISTORICA  
Guy G. STROUMSA, Oxford, UK, and Jerusalem, Israel  
Athens, Jerusalem and Mecca: The Patristic Crucible of the Abrahami  
c
Religions .............................................................................................. 153  
Josef LÖSSL, Cardiff, Wales, UK  
Memory as History? Patristic Perspectives........................................ 169  
Hervé INGLEBERT, Paris-Ouest Nanterre-La Défense, France  
La formation des élites chrétiennes dAugustin à Cassiodore............ 185  
Charlotte KÖCKERT, Heidelberg, Germany  
The Rhetoric of Conversion in Ancient Philosophy and Christianity 205  
Arthur P. URBANO, Jr., Providence, USA  
‘Dressing the Christian: The Philosopher’s Mantle as Signifier of  
Pedagogical and Moral Authority....................................................... 213  
Vladimir IVANOVICI, Bucharest, Romania  
Competing Paradoxes: Martyrs and the Spread of Christianity  
Revisited .............................................................................................. 231  
Helen RHEE, Santa Barbara, California, USA  
Wealth, Business Activities, and Blurring of Christian Identity........ 245  
Jean-Baptiste PIGGIN, Hamburg, Germany  
The Great Stemma: A Late Antique Diagrammatic Chronicle of Pre-  
Christian Time..................................................................................... 259  
Mikhail M. KAZAKOV, Smolensk, Russia  
Types of Location of Christian Churches in the Christianizing Roman  
Empire ................................................................................................. 279  
David Neal GREENWOOD, Edinburgh, UK  
Pollution Wars: Consecration and Desecration from Constantine to  
Julian.................................................................................................... 289  
Christine SHEPARDSON, University of Tennessee, USA  
Apollo’s Charred Remains: Making Meaning in Fourth-Century  
Antioch ................................................................................................ 297  
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Jacquelyn E. WINSTON, Azusa, USA  
The ‘Making’ of an Emperor: Constantinian Identity Formation in  
his Invective Letter to Arius ............................................................... 303  
Isabella IMAGE, Oxford, UK  
Nicene Fraud at the Council of Rimini .............................................. 313  
Thomas BRAUCH, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA  
From Valens to Theodosius: ‘Nicene’ and Arian’ Fortunes in the  
East August 378 to November 380 ..................................................... 323  
Silvia MARGUTTI, Perugia, Italy  
The Power of the Relics: Theodosius I and the Head of John the  
Baptist in Constantinople.................................................................... 339  
Antonia ATANASSOVA, Boston, USA  
A Ladder to Heaven: Ephesus I and the Theology of Marian Mediation 353  
Luise Marion FRENKEL, Cambridge, UK  
What are Sermons Doing in the Proceedings of a Council? The Case  
of Ephesus 431..................................................................................... 363  
Sandra LEUENBERGER-WENGER, Münster, Germany  
The Case of Theodoret at the Council of Chalcedon......................... 371  
Sergey TROSTYANSKIY, Union Theological Seminary, New York, USA  
The Encyclical of Basiliscus (475) and its Theological Significance;  
Some Interpretational Issues............................................................... 383  
Eric FOURNIER, West Chester, USA  
Victor of Vita and the Conference of 484: A Pastiche of 411? ......... 395  
Dana Iuliana VIEZURE, South Orange, NJ, USA  
The Fate of Emperor Zeno’s Henoticon: Christological Authority  
after the Healing of the Acacian Schism (484-518)............................ 409  
Roberta FRANCHI, Firenze, Italy  
Aurum in luto quaerere (Hier., Ep. 107,12). Donne tra eresia e ortodos-  
sia nei testi cristiani di IV-V secolo.................................................... 419  
Winfried BÜTTNER, Bamberg, Germany  
Der Christus medicus und ein medicus christianus: Hagiographische  
Anmerkungen zu einem Klerikerarzt des 5. Jh.................................. 431  
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Susan LOFTUS, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  
Episcopal Consecration – the Religious Practice of Late Antique Gaul  
in the 6th Century: Ideal and Reality.................................................. 439  
Rocco BORGOGNONI, Baggio, Italy  
Capitals at War: Images of Rome and Constantinople from the Age  
of Justinian .......................................................................................... 455  
Pauline ALLEN, Brisbane, Australia, and Pretoria, South Africa  
Prolegomena to a Study of the Letter-Bearer in Christian Antiquity 481  
Ariane BODIN, Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, France  
The Outward Appearance of Clerics in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries  
in Italy, Gaul and Africa: Representation and Reality....................... 493  
Christopher BONURA, Gainesville, USA  
The Man and the Myth: Did Heraclius Know the Legend of the Last  
Roman Emperor? ................................................................................ 503  
Petr BALCÁREK, Olomouc, Czech Republic  
The Cult of the Holy Wisdom in Byzantine Palestine....................... 515  
Volume 11  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LXIII  
BIBLICA  
Mark W. ELLIOTT, St Andrews, UK  
Wisdom of Solomon, Canon and Authority........................................  
3
Joseph VERHEYDEN, Leuven, Belgium  
A Puzzling Chapter in the Reception History of the Gospels: Victor  
of Antioch and his So-called ‘Commentary on Mark’ ...................... 17  
Christopher A. BEELEY, New Haven, Conn., USA  
‘Let This Cup Pass from Me’ (Matth. 26.39): The Soul of Christ in  
Origen, Gregory Nazianzen, and Maximus Confessor ...................... 29  
Paul M. BLOWERS, Emmanuel Christian Seminary, Johnson City, Ten-  
nessee, USA  
The Groaning and Longing of Creation: Variant Patterns of Patristic  
Interpretation of Romans 8:19-23 ....................................................... 45  
Table of Contents  
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Riemer ROUKEMA, Zwolle, The Netherlands  
The Foolishness of the Message about the Cross (1Cor. 1:18-25):  
Embarrassment and Consent............................................................... 55  
Jennifer R. STRAWBRIDGE, Oxford, UK  
A Community of Interpretation: The Use of 1Corinthians 2:6-16 by  
Early Christians................................................................................... 69  
Pascale FARAGO-BERMON, Paris, France  
Surviving the Disaster: The Use of Psyche in 1Peter 3:20 ............... 81  
Everett FERGUSON, Abilene, USA  
Some Patristic Interpretations of the Angels of the Churches (Apo-  
calypse 1-3) .......................................................................................... 95  
PHILOSOPHICA, THEOLOGICA, ETHICA  
Averil CAMERON, Oxford, UK  
Can Christians Do Dialogue?............................................................. 103  
Sophie LUNN-ROCKLIFFE, King’s College London, UK  
The Diabolical Problem of Satan’s First Sin: Self-moved Pride or a  
Response to the Goads of Envy?........................................................ 121  
Loren KERNS, Portland, Oregon, USA  
Soul and Passions in Philo of Alexandria .......................................... 141  
Nicola SPANU, London, UK  
The Interpretation of Timaeus 39E7-9 in the Context of Plotinus’ and  
Numenius’ Philosophical Circles ........................................................ 155  
Sarah STEWART-KROEKER, Princeton, USA  
Augustine’s Incarnational Appropriation of Plotinus: A Journey for  
the Feet ................................................................................................ 165  
Sébastien MORLET, Paris, France  
Encore un nouveau fragment du traité de Porphyre contre les chrétiens  
(Marcel dAncyre, fr. 88 Klostermann = fr. 22 Seibt/Vinzent)?........ 179  
Aaron P. JOHNSON, Cleveland, Tennessee, USA  
Porphyry’s Letter to Anebo among the Christians: Augustine and  
Eusebius............................................................................................... 187  
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Susanna ELM, Berkeley, USA  
Laughter in Christian Polemics........................................................... 195  
Robert WISNIEWSKI, Warsaw, Poland  
Looking for Dreams and Talking with Martyrs: The Internal Roots  
of Christian Incubation ....................................................................... 203  
Simon C. MIMOUNI, Paris, France  
Les traditions patristiques sur la famille de Jésus: Retour sur un pro-  
blème doctrinal du IVe siècle .............................................................. 209  
Christophe GUIGNARD, Bâle/Lausanne, Suisse  
Julius Africanus et le texte de la généalogie lucanienne de Jésus..... 221  
Demetrios BATHRELLOS, Athens, Greece  
The Patristic Tradition on the Sinlessness of Jesus............................ 235  
Hajnalka TAMAS, Leuven, Belgium  
Scio unum Deum vivum et verum, qui est trinus et unus Deus: The  
Relevance of Creedal Elements in the Passio Donati, Venusti et Her-  
mogenis................................................................................................ 243  
Christoph MARKSCHIES, Berlin, Germany  
On Classifying Creeds the Classical German Way: ‘Privat-Bekennt-  
nisse’ (‘Private Creeds’) ...................................................................... 259  
Markus VINZENT, King’s College London, UK  
From Zephyrinus to Damasus – What did Roman Bishops believe?.... 273  
Adolf Martin RITTER, Heidelberg, Germany  
The ‘Three Main Creeds’ of the Lutheran Reformation and their  
Specific Contexts: Testimonies and Commentaries........................... 287  
Hieromonk Methody (ZINKOVSKY), Hieromonk Kirill (ZINKOVSKY), St Peters-  
burg Orthodox Theological Academy, Russia  
The Term ênupóstaton and its Theological Meaning ..................... 313  
Christian LANGE, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany  
Miaenergetism – A New Term for the History of Dogma?............... 327  
Marek JANKOWIAK, Oxford, UK  
The Invention of Dyotheletism............................................................ 335  
Spyros P. PANAGOPOULOS, Patras, Greece  
The Byzantine Traditions of the Virgin Mary’s Dormition and  
Assumption.......................................................................................... 343  
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Christopher T. BOUNDS, Marion, Indiana, USA  
The Understanding of Grace in Selected Apostolic Fathers.............. 351  
Andreas MERKT, Regensburg, Germany  
Before the Birth of Purgatory ............................................................. 361  
Verna E.F. HARRISON, Los Angeles, USA  
Children in Paradise and Death as God’s Gift: From Theophilus of  
Antioch and Irenaeus of Lyons to Gregory Nazianzen...................... 367  
Moshe B. BLIDSTEIN, Oxford, UK  
Polemics against Death Defilement in Third-Century Christian Sour-  
ces........................................................................................................ 373  
Susan L. GRAHAM, Jersey City, USA  
Two Mount Zions: Fourth-Century Christian Anti-Jewish Polemic... 385  
Sean C. HILL, Gainesville, Florida, USA  
Early Christian Ethnic Reasoning in the Light of Genesis 6:1-4 ...... 393  
Volume 12  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LXIV  
ASCETICA  
Kate WILKINSON, Baltimore, USA  
Gender Roles and Mental Reproduction among Virgins ...................  
3
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David WOODS, Cork, Ireland  
Rome, Gregoria, and Madaba: A Warning against Sexual Temptation  
Alexis C. TORRANCE, Princeton, USA  
The Angel and the Spirit of Repentance: Hermas and the Early  
Monastic Concept of Metanoia........................................................... 15  
Lois FARAG, St Paul, MN, USA  
Heroines not Penitents: Saints of Sex Slavery in the Apophthegmata  
Patrum in Roman Law Context.......................................................... 21  
Nienke VOS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  
Seeing Hesychia: Appeals to the Imagination in the Apophthegmata  
Patrum ................................................................................................. 33  
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Peter TÓTH, London, UK  
‘In volumine Longobardo: New Light on the Date and Origin of the  
Latin Translation of St Anthony’s Seven Letters................................ 47  
Kathryn HAGER, Oxford, UK  
John Cassian: The Devil in the Details.............................................. 59  
Liviu BARBU, Cambridge, UK  
Spiritual Fatherhood in and outside the Desert: An Eastern Orthodox  
Perspective........................................................................................... 65  
LITURGICA  
T.D. BARNES, Edinburgh, UK  
The First Christmas in Rome, Antioch and Constantinople.............. 77  
Gerard ROUWHORST, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands  
Eucharistic Meals East of Antioch ..................................................... 85  
Anthony GELSTON, Durham, UK  
A Fragmentary Sixth-Century East Syrian Anaphora ....................... 105  
Richard BARRETT, Bloomington, Indiana, USA  
‘Let Us Put Away All Earthly Care: Mysticism and the Cherubikon  
of the Byzantine Rite .......................................................................... 111  
ORIENTALIA  
B.N. WOLFE, Oxford, UK  
The Skeireins: A Neglected Text........................................................ 127  
Alberto RIGOLIO, Oxford, UK  
From ‘Sacrifice to the Gods’ to the ‘Fear of God: Omissions, Additions  
and Changes in the Syriac Translations of Plutarch, Lucian and  
Themistius ........................................................................................... 133  
Richard VAGGIONE, OHC, Toronto, Canada  
Who were Mani’s ‘Greeks’? ‘Greek Bread’ in the Cologne Mani Codex 145  
Flavia RUANI, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France  
Between Myth and Exegesis: Ephrem the Syrian on the Manichaean  
Book of Giants..................................................................................... 155  
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Hannah HUNT, Leeds, UK  
‘Clothed in the Body: The Garment of Flesh and the Garment of  
Glory in Syrian Religious Anthropology............................................ 167  
Joby PATTERUPARAMPIL, Leuven, Belgium  
Regula Fidei in Ephrem’s Hymni de Fide LXVII and in the Sermones  
de Fide IV............................................................................................ 177  
Jeanne-Nicole SAINT-LAURENT, Colchester, VT, USA  
Humour in Syriac Hagiography.......................................................... 199  
Erik W. KOLB, Washington, D.C., USA  
‘It Is With God’s Words That Burn Like a Fire: Monastic Discipline  
in Shenoute’s Monastery ..................................................................... 207  
Hugo LUNDHAUG, Oslo, Norway  
Origenism in Fifth-Century Upper Egypt: Shenoute of Atripe and the  
Nag Hammadi Codices ....................................................................... 217  
Aho SHEMUNKASHO, Salzburg, Austria  
Preliminaries to an Edition of the Hagiography of St Aho the Stran-  
ger (
ܟܣܢܝܐ
ܐ
 
ܚܐ
ܐ
 
ܝ
ܡܪ
)................................................................... 229  
Peter BRUNS, Bamberg, Germany  
Von Magiern und Mönchen – Zoroastrische Polemik gegen das  
Christentum in der armenischen Kirchengeschichtsschreibung......... 237  
Grigory KESSEL, Marburg, Germany  
New Manuscript Witnesses to the ‘Second Part’ of Isaac of Nineveh 245  
CRITICA ET PHILOLOGICA  
Michael PENN, Mount Holyoke College, USA  
Using Computers to Identify Ancient Scribal Hands: A Preliminary  
Report .................................................................................................. 261  
Felix ALBRECHT, Göttingen, Germany  
A Hitherto Unknown Witness to the Apostolic Constitutions in  
Uncial Script........................................................................................ 267  
Nikolai LIPATOV-CHICHERIN, Nottingham, UK, and St Petersburg, Russia  
Preaching as the Audience Heard it: Unedited Transcripts of Patristic  
Homilies .............................................................................................. 277  
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Pierre AUGUSTIN, Paris, France  
Entre codicologie, philologie et histoire: La description de manuscrits  
parisiens (Codices Chrysostomici Graeci VII) .................................. 299  
Octavian GORDON, Bucure≥ti, Romania  
Denominational Translation of Patristic Texts into Romanian: Elements  
for a Patristic Translation Theory....................................................... 309  
Volume 13  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LXV  
THE FIRST TWO CENTURIES  
William C. RUTHERFORD, Houston, USA  
Citizenship among Jews and Christians: Civic Discourse in the Apology  
of Aristides ..........................................................................................  
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Paul HARTOG, Des Moines, USA  
The Relationship between Paraenesis and Polemic in Polycarp, Phi-  
lippians ................................................................................................ 27  
Romulus D. STEFANUT, Chicago, Illinois, USA  
Eucharistic Theology in the Martyrdom of Ignatius of Antioch ....... 39  
Ferdinando BERGAMELLI, Turin, Italy  
La figura dellApostolo Paolo in Ignazio di Antiochia....................... 49  
Viviana Laura FÉLIX, Buenos Aires, Argentina  
La influencia de platonismo medio en Justino a la luz de los estudios  
recientes sobre el Didaskalikos........................................................... 63  
Charles A. BOBERTZ, Collegeville, USA  
‘Our Opinion is in Accordance with the Eucharist: Irenaeus and the  
Sitz im Leben of Mark’s Gospel.......................................................... 79  
Ysabel DE ANDIA, Paris, France  
Adam-Enfant chez Irénée de Lyon ..................................................... 91  
Scott D. MORINGIELLO, Villanova, Pennsylvania, USA  
The Pneumatikos as Scriptural Interpreter: Irenaeus on 1Cor. 2:15 .. 105  
Adam J. POWELL, Durham, UK  
Irenaeus and God’s Gifts: Reciprocity in Against Heresies IV 14.1... 119  
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Charles E. HILL, Maitland, Florida, USA  
‘The Writing which SaysThe Shepherd of Hermas in the Writings  
of Irenaeus........................................................................................... 127  
T. Scott MANOR, Paris, France  
Proclus: The North African Montanist?............................................. 139  
István M. BUGÁR, Debrecen, Hungary  
Can Theological Language Be Logical? The Case of ‘Josipe’ and  
Melito .............................................................................................. 147  
Oliver NICHOLSON, Minneapolis, USA, and Tiverton, UK  
What Makes a Voluntary Martyr?...................................................... 159  
Thomas O’LOUGHLIN, Nottingham, UK  
The Protevangelium of James: A Case of Gospel Harmonization in  
the Second Century?........................................................................... 165  
Jussi JUNNI, Helsinki, Finland  
Celsus’ Arguments against the Truth of the Bible ............................. 175  
Miros¥aw MEJZNER, Warsaw (UKSW), Poland  
The Anthropological Foundations of the Concept of Resurrection  
according to Methodius of Olympus................................................... 185  
László PERENDY, Budapest, Hungary  
The Threads of Tradition: The Parallelisms between Ad Diognetum  
and Ad Autolycum ............................................................................... 197  
Nestor KAVVADAS, Tübingen, Germany  
Some Late Texts Pertaining to the Accusation of Ritual Cannibalism  
against Second- and Third-Century Christians.................................. 209  
Jared SECORD, Ann Arbor, USA  
Medicine and Sophistry in Hippolytus’ Refutatio.............................. 217  
Eliezer GONZALEZ, Gold Coast, Australia  
The Afterlife in the Passion of Perpetua and in the Works of Tertul-  
lian: A Clash of Traditions ................................................................. 225  
APOCRYPHA  
Julian PETKOV, University of Heidelberg, Germany  
Techniques of Disguise in Apocryphal Apocalyptic Literature:  
Bridging the Gap between Authorship’ and Authority’.................... 241  
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Marek STAROWIEYSKI, Pontifical Faculty of Theology, Warsaw, Poland  
St. Paul dans les Apocryphes.............................................................. 253  
David M. REIS, Bridgewater, USA  
Peripatetic Pedagogy: Travel and Transgression in the Apocryphal  
Acts of the Apostles............................................................................. 263  
Charlotte TOUATI, Lausanne, Switzerland  
A ‘Kerygma of Peter’ behind the Apocalypse of Peter, the Pseudo-  
Clementine Romance and the Eclogae Propheticae of Clement of  
Alexandria ........................................................................................... 277  
TERTULLIAN AND RHETORIC  
(ed. Willemien Otten)  
David E. WILHITE, Waco, TX, USA  
Rhetoric and Theology in Tertullian: What Tertullian Learned from  
Paul ...................................................................................................... 295  
Frédéric CHAPOT, Université de Strasbourg, France  
Rhétorique et herméneutique chez Tertullien. Remarques sur la com-  
position de lAdu. Praxean .................................................................. 313  
Willemien OTTEN, Chicago, USA  
Tertullian’s Rhetoric of Redemption: Flesh and Embodiment in De  
carne Christi and De resurrectione mortuorum................................. 331  
Geoffrey D. DUNN, Australian Catholic University, Australia  
Rhetoric and Tertullian: A Response ................................................. 349  
FROM TERTULLIAN TO TYCONIUS  
J. Albert HARRILL, Bloomington, Indiana, USA  
Accusing Philosophy of Causing Headaches: Tertullian’s Use of a  
Comedic Topos (Praescr. 16.2) ........................................................... 359  
Richard BRUMBACK, Austin, Texas, USA  
Tertullian’s Trinitarian Monarchy in Adversus Praxean: A Rhetorical  
Analysis ............................................................................................... 367  
Marcin R. WYSOCKI, Lublin, Poland  
Eschatology of the Time of Persecutions in the Writings of Tertullian  
and Cyprian......................................................................................... 379  
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David L. RIGGS, Marion, Indiana, USA  
The Apologetics of Grace in Tertullian and Early African Martyr Acts 395  
Agnes A. NAGY, Genève, Suisse  
Les candélabres et les chiens au banquet scandaleux. Tertullien,  
Minucius Felix et les unions œdipiennes............................................ 407  
Thomas F. HEYNE, M.D., M.St., Boston, USA  
Tertullian and Obstetrics..................................................................... 419  
Ulrike BRUCHMÜLLER, Berlin, Germany  
Christliche Erotik in platonischem Gewand: Transformationstheoretisch  
e
Überlegungen zur Umdeutung von Platons Symposion bei Methodios  
von Olympos........................................................................................ 435  
David W. PERRY, Hull, UK  
Cyprian’s Letter to Fidus: A New Perspective on its Significance for  
the History of Infant Baptism............................................................. 445  
Adam PLOYD, Atlanta, USA  
Tres Unum Sunt: The Johannine Comma in Cyprian........................ 451  
Laetitia CICCOLINI, Paris, France  
Le personnage de Syméon dans la polémique anti-juive: Le cas de  
l’Ad Vigilium episcopum de Iudaica incredulitate (CPL 67°)............ 459  
Volume 14  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LXVI  
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA  
Jana PLÁTOVÁ, Centre for Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Texts, Olo-  
mouc, Czech Republic  
Die Fragmente des Clemens Alexandrinus in den griechischen und  
arabischen Katenen..............................................................................  
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Marco RIZZI, Milan, Italy  
The Work of Clement of Alexandria in the Light of his Contempo-  
rary Philosophical Teaching................................................................ 11  
Stuart Rowley THOMSON, Oxford, UK  
Apostolic Authority: Reading and Writing Legitimacy in Clement of  
Alexandria ........................................................................................... 19  
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Davide DAINESE, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose ‘Giovanni XXIII,  
Bologna, Italy  
Clement of Alexandria’s Refusal of Valentinian âpórroia .............. 33  
Dan BATOVICI, St Andrews, UK  
Hermas in Clement of Alexandria...................................................... 41  
Piotr ASHWIN-SIEJKOWSKI, Chichester, UK  
Clement of Alexandria on the Creation of Eve: Exegesis in the Ser-  
vice of a Pedagogical Project.............................................................. 53  
Pamela MULLINS REAVES, Durham, NC, USA  
Multiple Martyrdoms and Christian Identity in Clement of Alexan-  
dria’s Stromateis .................................................................................. 61  
Michael J. THATE, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, USA  
Identity Construction as Resistance: Figuring Hegemony, Biopolitics,  
and Martyrdom as an Approach to Clement of Alexandria............... 69  
Veronika CERNUSKOVÁ, Olomouc, Czech Republic  
The Concept of eûpáqeia in Clement of Alexandria........................ 87  
Kamala PAREL-NUTTALL, Calgary, Canada  
Clement of Alexandria’s Ideal Christian Wife ................................... 99  
THE FOURTH-CENTURY DEBATES  
Michael B. SIMMONS, Montgomery, Alabama, USA  
Universalism in Eusebius of Caesarea: The Soteriological Use of  
in Book III of the Theophany.............. 125  
Jon M. ROBERTSON, Portland, Oregon, USA  
‘The Beloved of God: The Christological Backdrop for the Political  
Theory of Eusebius of Caesarea in Laus Constantini........................ 135  
Cordula BANDT, Berlin, Germany  
Some Remarks on the Tone of Eusebius’ Commentary on Psalms... 143  
Clayton COOMBS, Melbourne, Australia  
Literary Device or Legitimate Diversity: Assessing Eusebius’ Use of  
the Optative Mood in Quaestiones ad Marinum................................ 151  
David J. DEVORE, Berkeley, California, USA  
Eusebius’ Un-Josephan History: Two Portraits of Philo of Alexandria  
a
nd the Sources of Ecclesiastical Historiography............................... 161  
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Gregory Allen ROBBINS, Denver, USA  
‘Number Determinate is Kept Concealed’ (Dante, Paradiso XXIX 135):  
Eusebius and the Transformation of the List (Hist. eccl. III 25) ....... 181  
James CORKE-WEBSTER, Manchester, UK  
A Literary Historian: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Martyrs of  
Lyons and Palestine............................................................................. 191  
Samuel FERNÁNDEZ, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile  
¿Crisis arriana o crisis monarquiana en el siglo IV? Las críticas de  
Marcelo de Ancira a Asterio de Capadocia........................................ 203  
Laurence VIANÈS, Université de Grenoble / HiSoMA «Sources Chrétien-  
nes», France  
L’interprétation des prophètes par Apollinaire de Laodicée a-t-elle  
influencé Théodore de Mopsueste?.................................................... 209  
Hélène GRELIER-DENEUX, Paris, France  
La réception dApolinaire dans les controverses christologiques du  
Ve siècle à partir de deux témoins, Cyrille dAlexandrie et Théodoret  
de Cyr .................................................................................................. 223  
Sophie H. CARTWRIGHT, Edinburgh, UK  
So-called Platonism, the Soul, and the Humanity of Christ in Eus-  
tathius of Antioch’s Contra Ariomanitas et de anima ....................... 237  
Donna R. HAWK-REINHARD, St Louis, USA  
Cyril of Jerusalem’s Sacramental Theosis.......................................... 247  
Georgij ZAKHAROV, Moscou, Russie  
Théologie de l’image chez Germinius de Sirmium............................ 257  
Michael Stuart WILLIAMS, Maynooth, Ireland  
Auxentius of Milan: From Orthodoxy to Heresy............................... 263  
Jarred A. MERCER, Oxford, UK  
The Life in the Word and the Light of Humanity: The Exegetical  
Foundation of Hilary of Poitiers’ Doctrine of Divine Infinity .......... 273  
Janet SIDAWAY, Edinburgh, UK  
Hilary of Poitiers and Phoebadius of Agen: Who Influenced Whom? 283  
Dominique GONNET, S.J., Lyon, France  
The Use of the Bible within Athanasius of Alexandria’s Letters to  
Serapion............................................................................................... 291  
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William G. RUSCH, New York, USA  
Corresponding with Emperor Jovian: The Strategy and Theology of  
Apollinaris of Laodicea and Athanasius of Alexandria..................... 301  
Rocco SCHEMBRA, Catania, Italia  
Il percorso editoriale del De non parcendo in deum delinquentibus  
di Lucifero di Cagliari ........................................................................ 309  
Caroline MACÉ, Leuven, Belgium, and Ilse DE VOS, Oxford, UK  
Pseudo-Athanasius, Quaestio ad Antiochum 136 and the Theosophia 319  
Volume 15  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LXVII  
CAPPADOCIAN WRITERS  
Giulio MASPERO, Rome, Italy  
The Spirit Manifested by the Son in Cappadocian Thought .............  
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Darren SARISKY, Cambridge, UK  
Who Can Listen to Sermons on Genesis? Theological Exegesis and  
Theological Anthropology in Basil of Caesarea’s Hexaemeron Hom-  
ilies ...................................................................................................... 13  
Ian C. JONES, New York, USA  
Humans and Animals: St Basil of Caesarea’s Ascetic Evocation of  
Paradise................................................................................................ 25  
Benoît GAIN, Grenoble, France  
Voyageur en Exil: Un aspect central de la condition humaine selon  
Basile de Césarée ................................................................................ 33  
Anne Gordon KEIDEL, Boston, USA  
Nautical Imagery in the Writings of Basil of Caesarea ..................... 41  
Martin MAYERHOFER, Rom, Italien  
Die basilianische Anthropologie als Verständnisschlüssel zu Ad ado-  
lescentes............................................................................................... 47  
Anna M. SILVAS, Armidale NSW, Australia  
Basil and Gregory of Nyssa on the Ascetic Life: Introductory Com-  
parisons................................................................................................ 53  
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Antony MEREDITH, S.J., London, UK  
Universal Salvation and Human Response in Gregory of Nyssa....... 63  
Robin ORTON, London, UK  
‘Physical’ Soteriology in Gregory of Nyssa: A Response to Reinhard  
M. Hübner............................................................................................ 69  
Marcello LA MATINA, Macerata, Italy  
Seeing God through Language. Quotation and Deixis in Gregory of  
Nyssa’s Against Eunomius, Book III .................................................. 77  
Hui XIA, Leuven, Belgium  
The Light Imagery in Gregory of Nyssa’s Contra Eunomium III 6.. 91  
Francisco BASTITTA HARRIET, Buenos Aires, Argentina  
Does God ‘Follow’ Human Decision? An Interpretation of a Passage  
from Gregory of Nyssa’s De vita Moysis (II 86)................................ 101  
Miguel BRUGAROLAS, Pamplona, Spain  
Anointing and Kingdom: Some Aspects of Gregory of Nyssa’s Pneu-  
matology .............................................................................................. 113  
Matthew R. LOOTENS, New York City, USA  
A Preface to Gregory of Nyssa’s Contra Eunomium? Gregory’s Epis-  
tula 29.................................................................................................. 121  
Nathan D. HOWARD, Martin, Tennessee, USA  
Gregory of Nyssa’s Vita Macrinae in the Fourth-Century Trinitarian  
Debate.................................................................................................. 131  
Ann CONWAY-JONES, Manchester, UK  
Gregory of Nyssa’s Tabernacle Imagery: Mysticism, Theology and  
Politics ................................................................................................. 143  
Elena ENE D-VASILESCU, Oxford, UK  
How Would Gregory of Nyssa Understand Evolutionism?................ 151  
Daniel G. OPPERWALL, Hamilton, Canada  
Sinai and Corporate Epistemology in the Orations of Gregory of  
Nazianzus ............................................................................................ 169  
Finn DAMGAARD, Copenhagen, Denmark  
The Figure of Moses in Gregory of Nazianzus’ Autobiographical  
Remarks in his Orations and Poems................................................... 179  
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Gregory K. HILLIS, Louisville, Kentucky, USA  
Pneumatology and Soteriology according to Gregory of Nazianzus  
and Cyril of Alexandria...................................................................... 187  
Zurab JASHI, Leipzig, Germany  
Human Freedom and Divine Providence according to Gregory of  
Nazianzus ............................................................................................ 199  
Matthew BRIEL, Bronx, New York, USA  
Gregory the Theologian, Logos and Literature .................................. 207  
THE SECOND HALF OF THE FOURTH CENTURY  
John VOELKER, Viking, Minnesota, USA  
Marius Victorinus’ Remembrance of the Nicene Council ................. 217  
Kellen PLAXCO, Milwaukee, USA  
Didymus the Blind and the Metaphysics of Participation.................. 227  
Rubén PERETÓ RIVAS, Mendoza, Argentina  
La acedia y Evagrio Póntico. Entre ángeles y demonios ................... 239  
Young Richard KIM, Grand Rapids, USA  
The Pastoral Care of Epiphanius of Cyprus....................................... 247  
Peter Anthony MENA, Madison, NJ, USA  
Insatiable Appetites: Epiphanius of Salamis and the Making of the  
Heretical Villain.................................................................................. 257  
Constantine BOZINIS, Thessaloniki, Greece  
De imperio et potestate. A Dialogue with John Chrysostom ............ 265  
Johan LEEMANS, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Leuven, Belgium  
John Chrysostom’s First Homily on Pentecost (CPG 4343): Liturgy  
and Theology....................................................................................... 285  
Natalia SMELOVA, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of  
Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia  
St John Chrysostom’s Exegesis on the Prophet Isaiah: The Oriental  
Translations and their Manuscripts..................................................... 295  
Goran SEKULOVSKI, Paris, France  
Jean Chrysostome sur la communion de Judas.................................. 311  
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Jeff W. CHILDERS, Abilene, Texas, USA  
Chrysostom in Syriac Dress................................................................ 323  
Cara J. ASPESI, Notre Dame, USA  
Literacy and Book Ownership in the Congregations of John Chrysos-  
tom....................................................................................................... 333  
Jonathan STANFILL, New York, USA  
John Chrysostom’s Gothic Parish and the Politics of Space.............. 345  
Peter MOORE, Sydney, Australia  
Chrysostom’s Concept of gnÉmj: How ‘Chosen Life’s Orientation’  
Undergirds Chrysostom’s Strategy in Preaching................................ 351  
Chris L. DE WET, Pretoria, South Africa  
John Chrysostom’s Advice to Slaveholders ........................................ 359  
Paola Francesca MORETTI, Milano, Italy  
Not only ianua diaboli. Jerome, the Bible and the Construction of a  
Female Gender Model......................................................................... 367  
Vít HUSEK, Olomouc, Czech Republic  
‘Perfection Appropriate to the Fragile Human Condition: Jerome  
and Pelagius on the Perfection of Christian Life ............................... 385  
Pak-Wah LAI, Singapore  
The Imago Dei and Salvation among the Antiochenes: A Comparison  
of John Chrysostom with Theodore of Mopsuestia............................ 393  
George KALANTZIS, Wheaton, Illinois, USA  
Creatio ex Terrae: Immortality and the Fall in Theodore, Chrysos-  
tom, and Theodoret ............................................................................. 403  
Volume 16  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LXVIII  
FROM THE FIFTH CENTURY ONWARDS (GREEK WRITERS)  
Anna LANKINA, Gainesville, Florida, USA  
Reclaiming the Memory of the Christian Past: Philostorgius’ Mis-  
sionary Heroes.....................................................................................  
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Vasilije VRANIC, Marquette University, USA  
The Logos as theios sporos: The Christology of the Expositio rectae  
fidei of Theodoret of Cyrrhus............................................................. 11  
Andreas WESTERGREN, Lund, Sweden  
A Relic In Spe: Theodoret’s Depiction of a Philosopher Saint.......... 25  
George A. BEVAN, Kingston, Canada  
Interpolations in the Syriac Translation of Nestorius’ Liber Heraclidis 31  
Ken PARRY, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  
‘Rejoice for Me, O Desert: Fresh Light on the Remains of Nestorius  
in Egypt ............................................................................................... 41  
Josef RIST, Bochum, Germany  
Kirchenpolitik und/oder Bestechung: Die Geschenke des Kyrill von  
Alexandrien an den kaiserlichen Hof ................................................. 51  
Hans VAN LOON, Culemborg, The Netherlands  
The Pelagian Debate and Cyril of Alexandria’s Theology ................ 61  
Hannah MILNER, Cambridge, UK  
Cyril of Alexandria’s Treatment of Sources in his Commentary on  
the Twelve Prophets............................................................................. 85  
Matthew R. CRAWFORD, Durham, UK  
Assessing the Authenticity of the Greek Fragments on Psalm 22  
(LXX) attributed to Cyril of Alexandria............................................ 95  
Dimitrios ZAGANAS, Paris, France  
Against Origen and/or Origenists? Cyril of Alexandria’s Rejection  
of John the Baptist’s Angelic Nature in his Commentary on John 1:6 101  
Richard W. BISHOP, Leuven, Belgium  
Cyril of Alexandria’s Sermon on the Ascension (CPG 5281)............ 107  
Daniel KEATING, Detroit, MI, USA  
Supersessionism in Cyril of Alexandria............................................. 119  
Thomas ARENTZEN, Lund, Sweden  
‘Your virginity shines’ – The Attraction of the Virgin in the Annun-  
ciation Hymn by Romanos the Melodist ............................................ 125  
Thomas CATTOI, Berkeley, USA  
An Evagrian üpóstasiv? Leontios of Byzantium and the ‘Com-  
posite Subjectivity’ of the Person of Christ........................................ 133  
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Leszek MISIARCZYK, Warsaw, Poland  
The Relationship between nous, pneuma and logistikon in Evagrius  
Ponticus’ Anthropology....................................................................... 149  
J. Gregory GIVEN, Cambridge, USA  
Anchoring the Areopagite: An Intertextual Approach to Pseudo-  
Dionysius ............................................................................................. 155  
Ladislav CHVÁTAL, Olomouc, Czech Republic  
The Concept of ‘Grace’ in Dionysius the Areopagite........................ 173  
Graciela L. RITACCO, San Miguel, Argentina  
El Bien, el Sol y el Rayo de Luz según Dionisio del Areópago........ 181  
Zachary M. GUILIANO, Cambridge, UK  
The Cross in (Pseudo-)Dionysius: Pinnacle and Pit of Revelation.... 201  
David NEWHEISER, Chicago, USA  
Eschatology and the Areopagite: Interpreting the Dionysian Hierar-  
chies in Terms of Time ....................................................................... 215  
Ashley PURPURA, New York City, USA  
‘Pseudo’ Dionysius the Areopagite’s Ecclesiastical Hierarchy: Keep-  
ing the Divine Order and Participating in Divinity ........................... 223  
Filip IVANOVIC, Trondheim, Norway  
Dionysius the Areopagite on Justice................................................... 231  
Brenda LLEWELLYN IHSSEN, Tacoma, USA  
Money in the Meadow: Conversion and Coin in John Moschos’ Pra-  
tum spirituale ...................................................................................... 237  
Bogdan G. BUCUR, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA  
Exegesis and Intertextuality in Anastasius the Sinaite’s Homily On  
the Transfiguration .............................................................................. 249  
Christopher JOHNSON, Tuscaloosa, USA  
Between Madness and Holiness: Symeon of Emesa and the ‘Peda-  
gogics of Liminality’........................................................................... 261  
Archbishop Rowan WILLIAMS, London, UK  
Nature, Passion and Desire: Maximus’ Ontology of Excess ............. 267  
Manuel MIRA IBORRA, Rome, Italy  
Friendship in Maximus the Confessor................................................ 273  
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Marius PORTARU, Rome, Italy  
Gradual Participation according to St Maximus the Confessor......... 281  
Michael BAKKER, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  
Willing in St Maximos’ Mystagogical Habitat: Bringing Habits in  
Line with One’s logos.......................................................................... 295  
Andreas ANDREOPOULOS, Winchester, UK  
All in All’ in the Byzantine Anaphora and the Eschatological Mys-  
tagogy of Maximos the Confessor...................................................... 303  
Cyril K. CRAWFORD, OSB, Leuven, Belgium (†)  
‘Receptive Potency’ (dektike dynamis) in Ambigua ad Iohannem 20  
of St Maximus the Confessor.............................................................. 313  
Johannes BÖRJESSON, Cambridge, UK  
Maximus the Confessor’s Knowledge of Augustine: An Exploration  
of Evidence Derived from the Acta of the Lateran Council of 649 .. 325  
Joseph STEINEGER, Chicago, USA  
John of Damascus on the Simplicity of God...................................... 337  
Scott ABLES, Oxford, UK  
Did John of Damascus Modify His Sources in the Expositio fidei?... 355  
Adrian AGACHI, Winchester, UK  
A Critical Analysis of the Theological Conflict between St Symeon  
the New Theologian and Stephen of Nicomedia................................ 363  
Vladimir A. BARANOV, Novosibirsk, Russia  
Amphilochia 231 of Patriarch Photius as a Possible Source on the  
Christology of the Byzantine Iconoclasts........................................... 371  
Theodoros ALEXOPOULOS, Athens, Greece  
The Byzantine Filioque-Supporters in the 13th Century John Bekkos  
and Konstantin Melitiniotes and their Relation with Augustine and  
Thomas Aquinas.................................................................................. 381  
Nicholas BAMFORD, St Albans, UK  
Using Gregory Palamas’ Energetic Theology to Address John Ziziou-  
las’ Existentialism ............................................................................... 397  
John BEKOS, Nicosia, Cyprus  
Nicholas Cabasilas’ Political Theology in an Epoch of Economic  
Crisis: A Reading of a 14th-Century Political Discourse................... 405  
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Volume 17  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LXIX  
LATIN WRITERS  
Dennis Paul QUINN, Pomona, California, USA  
In the Names of God and His Christ: Evil Daemons, Exorcism, and  
Conversion in Firmicus Maternus.......................................................  
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Stanley P. ROSENBERG, Oxford, UK  
Nature and the Natural World in Ambrose’s Hexaemeron ................ 15  
Brian DUNKLE, S.J., South Bend, USA  
Mystagogy and Creed in Ambrose’s Iam Surgit Hora Tertia ............ 25  
Finbarr G. CLANCY, S.J., Dublin, Ireland  
The Eucharist in St Ambrose’s Commentaries on the Psalms........... 35  
Jan DEN BOEFT, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  
Qui cantat, vacuus est: Ambrose on singing ..................................... 45  
Crystal LUBINSKY, University of Edinburgh, UK  
Re-reading Masculinity in Christian Greco-Roman Culture through  
Ambrose and the Female Transvestite Monk, Matrona of Perge....... 51  
Maria E. DOERFLER, Durham, USA  
Keeping it in the Family: The law and the Law in Ambrose of Milan’s  
Letters.................................................................................................. 67  
Camille GERZAGUET, Lyon, France  
Le De fuga saeculi d’Ambroise de Milan et sa datation. Notes de  
philologie et d’histoire......................................................................... 75  
Vincenzo MESSANA, Palermo, Italia  
Fra Sicilia e Burdigala nel IV secolo: gli intellettuali Citario e Vit-  
torio (Ausonius, Prof. 13 e 22)............................................................ 85  
Edmon L. GALLAGHER, Florence, Alabama, USA  
Jerome’s Prologus Galeatus and the OT Canon of North Africa...... 99  
Christine MCCANN, Northfield, VT, USA  
Incentives to Virtue: Jerome’s Use of Biblical Models...................... 107  
Christa GRAY, Oxford, UK  
The Monk and the Ridiculous: Comedy in Jerome’s Vita Malchi..... 115  
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Zachary YUZWA, Cornell University, USA  
To Live by the Example of Angels: Dialogue, Imitation and Identity  
in Sulpicius Severus’ Gallus ............................................................... 123  
Robert MCEACHNIE, Gainesville, USA  
Envisioning the Utopian Community in the Sermons of Chromatius  
of Aquileia ........................................................................................... 131  
Hernán M. GIUDICE, Buenos Aires, Argentina  
El Papel del Apóstol Pablo en la Propuesta Priscilianista ................. 139  
Bernard GREEN, Oxford, UK  
Leo the Great on Baptism: Letter 16.................................................. 149  
Fabian SIEBER, Leuven, Belgium  
Christologische Namen und Titel in der Paraphrase des Johannes-  
Evangeliums des Nonnos von Panopolis ............................................ 159  
Junghoo KWON, Toronto, Canada  
The Latin Pseudo-Athanasian De trinitate Attributed to Eusebius of  
Vercelli and its Place of Composition: Spain or Northern Italy?...... 169  
Salvatore COSTANZA, Agrigento, Italia  
Cartagine in Salviano di Marsiglia: alcune puntualizzazioni............ 175  
Giulia MARCONI, Perugia, Italy  
Commendatio in Ostrogothic Italy: Studies on the Letters of Enno-  
dius of Pavia ........................................................................................ 187  
Lucy GRIG, Edinburgh, UK  
Approaching Popular Culture in Late Antiquity: Singing in the Ser-  
mons of Caesarius of Arles................................................................. 197  
Thomas S. FERGUSON, Riverdale, New York, USA  
Grace and Kingship in De aetatibus mundi et hominis of Planciades  
Fulgentius ............................................................................................ 205  
Jérémy DELMULLE, Paris, France  
Establishing an Authentic List of Prosper’s Works............................ 213  
Albertus G.A. HORSTING, Notre Dame, USA  
Reading Augustine with Pleasure: The Original Form of Prosper of  
Aquitaine’s Book of Epigrams ............................................................ 233  
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Michele CUTINO, Palermo, Italy  
Prosper and the Pagans ....................................................................... 257  
Norman W. JAMES, St Albans, UK  
Prosper of Aquitaine Revisited: Gallic Friend of Leo I or Resident  
Papal Adviser?..................................................................................... 267  
Alexander Y. HWANG, Louisville, USA  
Prosper of Aquitaine and the Fall of Rome........................................ 277  
Brian J. MATZ, Helena, USA  
Legacy of Prosper of Aquitaine in the Ninth-Century Predestination  
Debate.................................................................................................. 283  
Raúl VILLEGAS MARÍN, Paris, France, and Barcelona, Spain  
Original Sin in the Provençal Ascetic Theology: John Cassian........ 289  
Pere MAYMÓ I CAPDEVILA, Barcelona, Spain  
A Bishop Faces War: Gregory the Great’s Attitude towards Ariulf’s  
Campaign on Rome (591-592)............................................................. 297  
Hector SCERRI, Msida, Malta  
Life as a Journey in the Letters of Gregory the Great....................... 305  
Theresia HAINTHALER, Frankfurt am Main, Germany  
Canon 13 of the Second Council of Seville (619) under Isidore of  
Seville. A Latin Anti-Monophysite Treatise....................................... 311  
NACHLEBEN  
Gerald CRESTA, Buenos Aires, Argentine  
From Dionysius’ thearchia to Bonaventure’s hierarchia: Assimilation  
and Evolution of the Concept.............................................................. 325  
Lesley-Anne DYER, Notre Dame, USA  
The Twelfth-Century Influence of Hilary of Poitiers on Richard of  
St Victor’s De trinitate........................................................................ 333  
John T. SLOTEMAKER, Boston, USA  
Reading Augustine in the Fourteenth Century: Gregory of Rimini  
and Pierre dAilly on the Imago Trinitatis.......................................... 345  
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Jeffrey C. WITT, Boston, USA  
Interpreting Augustine: On the Nature of ‘Theological Knowledge’  
in the Fourteenth Century................................................................... 359  
Joost VAN ROSSUM, Paris, France  
Creation-Theology in Gregory Palamas and Theophanes of Nicaea,  
Compatible or Incompatible?.............................................................. 373  
Yilun CAI, Leuven, Belgium  
The Appeal to Augustine in Domingo Bañez’ Theology of Effica-  
cious Grace.......................................................................................... 379  
Elizabeth A. CLARK, Durham, USA  
Romanizing Protestantism in Nineteenth-Century America: John  
Williamson Nevin, the Fathers, and the ‘Mercersburg Theology’..... 385  
Pier Franco BEATRICE, University of Padua, Italy  
Reading Elizabeth A. Clark, Founding the Fathers........................... 395  
Kenneth NOAKES, Wimborne, Dorset, UK  
‘Fellow Citizens with you and your Great Benefactors: Newman and  
the Fathers in the Parochial Sermons................................................. 401  
Manuela E. GHEORGHE, Olomouc, Czech Republic  
The Reception of Hesychia in Romanian Literature.......................... 407  
Jason RADCLIFF, Edinburgh, UK  
Thomas F. Torrance’s Conception of the Consensus patrum on the  
Doctrine of Pneumatology .................................................................. 417  
Andrew LENOX-CONYNGHAM, Birmingham, UK  
In Praise of St Jerome and Against the Anglican Cult of ‘Niceness’ 435  
Volume 18  
STUDIA PATRISTICA LXX  
ST AUGUSTINE AND HIS OPPONENTS  
Kazuhiko DEMURA, Okayama, Japan  
The Concept of Heart in Augustine of Hippo: Its Emergence and  
Development........................................................................................  
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Therese FUHRER, Berlin, Germany  
The ‘Milan narrative’ in Augustine’s Confessions: Intellectual and  
Material Spaces in Late Antique Milan ............................................. 17  
Kenneth M. WILSON, Oxford, UK  
Sin as Contagious in the Writings of Cyprian and Augustine........... 37  
Marius A. VAN WILLIGEN, Tilburg, The Netherlands  
Ambrose’s De paradiso: An Inspiring Source for Augustine of Hippo 47  
Ariane MAGNY, Kamloops, Canada  
How Important were Porphyry’s Anti-Christian Ideas to Augustine?  
55  
Jonathan D. TEUBNER, Cambridge, UK  
Augustine’s De magistro: Scriptural Arguments and the Genre of  
Philosophy ........................................................................................... 63  
Marie-Anne VANNIER, Université de Lorraine-MSH Lorraine, France  
La mystagogie chez S. Augustin......................................................... 73  
Joseph T. LIENHARD, S.J., Bronx, New York, USA  
Locutio and sensus in Augustine’s Writings on the Heptateuch........ 79  
Laela ZWOLLO, Centre for Patristic Research, University of Tilburg, The  
Netherlands  
St Augustine on the Soul’s Divine Experience: Visio intellectualis  
and Imago dei from Book XII of De genesi ad litteram libri XII..... 85  
Enrique A. EGUIARTE, Madrid, Spain  
The Exegetical Function of Old Testament Names in Augustine’s  
Commentary on the Psalms................................................................ 93  
Mickaël RIBREAU, Paris, France  
À la frontière de plusieurs controverses doctrinales: LEnarratio au  
Psaume 118 d’Augustin ....................................................................... 99  
Wendy ELGERSMA HELLEMAN, Plateau State, Nigeria  
Augustine and Philo of Alexandria’s ‘Sarah’ as a Wisdom Figure (De  
Civitate Dei XV 2f.; XVI 25-32)........................................................ 105  
Paul VAN GEEST, Tilburg and Amsterdam, The Netherlands  
St Augustine on God’s Incomprehensibility, Incarnation and the  
Authority of St John............................................................................ 117  
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Piotr M. PACIOREK, Miami, USA  
The Metaphor of ‘the Letter from God’ as Applied to Holy Scripture  
by Saint Augustine .............................................................................. 133  
John Peter KENNEY, Colchester, Vermont, USA  
Apophasis and Interiority in Augustine’s Early Writings .................. 147  
Karl F. MORRISON, Princeton, NJ, USA  
Augustine’s Project of Self-Knowing and the Paradoxes of Art: An  
Experiment in Biblical Hermeneutics................................................. 159  
Tarmo TOOM, Washington, D.C., USA  
Was Augustine an Intentionalist? Authorial Intention in Augustine’s  
Hermeneutics....................................................................................... 185  
Francine CARDMAN, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA  
Discerning the Heart: Intention as Ethical Norm in Augustine’s  
Homilies on 1 John ............................................................................. 195  
Samuel KIMBRIEL, Cambridge, UK  
Illumination and the Practice of Inquiry in Augustine...................... 203  
Susan Blackburn GRIFFITH, Oxford, UK  
Unwrapping the Word: Metaphor in the Augustinian Imagination... 213  
Paula J. ROSE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  
Videbit me nocte proxima, sed in somnis: Augustine’s Rhetorical  
Use of Dream Narratives..................................................................... 221  
Jared ORTIZ, Washington, D.C., USA  
The Deep Grammar of Augustine’s Conversion ................................ 233  
Emmanuel BERMON, University of Bordeaux, France  
Grammar and Metaphysics: About the Forms essendi, essendo,  
essendum, and essens in Augustine’s Ars grammatica breuiata  
(IV, 31 Weber) ..................................................................................... 241  
Gerald P. BOERSMA, Durham, UK  
Enjoying the Trinity in De uera religione.......................................... 251  
Emily CAIN, New York, NY, USA  
Knowledge Seeking Wisdom: A Pedagogical Pattern for Augustine’s  
De trinitate .......................................................................................... 257  
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Michael L. CARREKER, Macon, Georgia, USA  
The Integrity of Christ’s Scientia and Sapientia in the Argument of  
the De trinitate of Augustine.............................................................. 265  
Dongsun CHO, Fort Worth, Texas, USA  
An Apology for Augustine’s Filioque as a Hermeneutical Referent  
to the Immanent Trinity...................................................................... 275  
Ronnie J. ROMBS, Dallas, USA  
The Grace of Creation and Perfection as Key to Augustine’s Confes-  
sions..................................................................................................... 285  
Matthias SMALBRUGGE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  
Image as a Hermeneutic Model in Confessions X ............................. 295  
Naoki KAMIMURA, Tokyo, Japan  
The Consultation of Sacred Books and the Mediator: The Sortes in  
Augustine............................................................................................. 305  
Eva-Maria KUHN, Munich, Germany  
Listening to the Bishop: A Note on the Construction of Judicial  
Authority in Confessions VI 3-5......................................................... 317  
Jangho JO, Waco, USA  
Augustine’s Three-Day Lecture in Carthage...................................... 331  
Alicia EELEN, Leuven, Belgium  
1Tim. 1:15: Humanus sermo or Fidelis sermo? Augustine’s Sermo  
174 and its Christology........................................................................ 339  
Han-luen KANTZER KOMLINE, South Bend, IN, USA  
Ut in illo uiueremus: Augustine on the Two Wills of Christ .......... 347  
George C. BERTHOLD, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA  
Dyothelite Language in Augustine’s Christology............................... 357  
Chris THOMAS, Central University College, Accra, Ghana  
Donatism and the Contextualisation of Christianity: A Cautionary  
Tale ...................................................................................................... 365  
Jane E. MERDINGER, Incline Village, Nevada, USA  
Before Augustine’s Encounter with Emeritus: Early Mauretanian  
Donatism.............................................................................................. 371  
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James K. LEE, Southern Methodist University, TX, USA  
The Church as Mystery in the Theology of St Augustine ................. 381  
Charles D. ROBERTSON, Houston, USA  
Augustinian Ecclesiology and Predestination: An Intractable Prob-  
lem? ..................................................................................................... 401  
Brian GRONEWOLLER, Atlanta, USA  
Felicianus, Maximianism, and Augustine’s Anti-Donatist Polemic... 409  
Marianne DJUTH, Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, USA  
Augustine on the Saints and the Community of the Living and the  
Dead..................................................................................................... 419  
Bart VAN EGMOND, Kampen, The Netherlands  
Perseverance until the End in Augustine’s Anti-Donatist Polemic.... 433  
Carles BUENACASA PÉREZ, Barcelona, Spain  
The Letters Ad Donatistas of Augustine and their Relevance in the  
Anti-Donatist Controversy .................................................................. 439  
Ron HAFLIDSON, Edinburgh, UK  
Imitation and the Mediation of Christ in Augustine’s City of God... 449  
Julia HUDSON, Oxford, UK  
Leaves, Mice and Barbarians: The Providential Meaning of Incidents  
in the De ordine and De ciuitate Dei ................................................. 457  
Shari BOODTS, Leuven, Belgium  
A Critical Assessment of Wolfenbüttel Herz.-Aug.-Bibl. Cod. Guelf.  
237 (Helmst. 204) and its Value for the Edition of St Augustine’s  
Sermones ad populum......................................................................... 465  
Lenka KARFÍKOVÁ, Prague, Czech Repubic  
Augustine to Nebridius on the Ideas of Individuals (ep. 14,4) ........... 477  
Pierre DESCOTES, Paris, France  
Deux lettres sur l’origine de l’âme: Les Epistulae 166 et 190 de saint  
Augustin............................................................................................... 487  
Nicholas J. BAKER-BRIAN, Cardiff, Wales, UK  
Women in Augustine’s Anti-Manichaean Writings: Rumour, Rheto-  
ric, and Ritual...................................................................................... 499  
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Michael W. TKACZ, Spokane, Washington, USA  
Occasionalism and Augustine’s Builder Analogy for Creation.......... 521  
Kelly E. ARENSON, Pittsburgh, USA  
Augustine’s Defense and Redemption of the Body............................ 529  
Catherine LEFORT, Paris, France  
À propos d’une source inédite des Soliloques d’Augustin: La notion  
cicéronienne de «vraisemblance» (uerisimile / similitudo ueri)........ 539  
Kenneth B. STEINHAUSER, St Louis, Missouri, USA  
Curiosity in Augustine’s Soliloquies: Agitur enim de sanitate oculo-  
rum tuorum.......................................................................................... 547  
Frederick H. RUSSELL, Newark, New Jersey USA  
Augustine’s Contradictory Just War.................................................... 553  
Kimberly F. BAKER, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA  
Transfiguravit in se: The Sacramentality of Augustine’s Doctrine of  
the Totus Christus................................................................................ 559  
Mark G. VAILLANCOURT, New York, USA  
The Eucharistic Realism of St Augustine: Did Paschasius Radbertus  
Get Him Right? An Examination of Recent Scholarship on the Ser-  
mons of St Augustine.......................................................................... 569  
Martin BELLEROSE, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombie  
Le sens pétrinien du mot paroikóv comme source de l’idée augus-  
tinienne de peregrinus......................................................................... 577  
Gertrude GILLETTE, Ave Maria, USA  
Anger and Community in the Rule of Augustine............................... 591  
Robert HORKA, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Comenius University  
Bratislava, Slovakia  
Curiositas ductrix: Die negative und positive Beziehung des hl.  
Augustinus zur Neugierde................................................................... 601  
Paige E. HOCHSCHILD, Mount St Mary’s University, USA  
Unity of Memory in De musica VI .................................................... 611  
Ali BONNER, Cambridge, UK  
The Manuscript Transmission of Pelagius’ Ad Demetriadem: The  
Evidence of Some Manuscript Witnesses........................................... 619  
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Peter J. VAN EGMOND, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  
Pelagius and the Origenist Controversy in Palestine.......................... 631  
Rafa¥ TOCZKO, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland  
Rome as the Basis of Argument in the So-called Pelagian Contro-  
versy (415-418)..................................................................................... 649  
Nozomu YAMADA, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan  
The Influence of Chromatius and Rufinus of Aquileia on Pelagius  
– as seen in his Key Ascetic Concepts: exemplum Christi, sapientia  
and imperturbabilitas.......................................................................... 661  
Matthew J. PEREIRA, New York, USA  
From Augustine to the Scythian Monks: Social Memory and the  
Doctrine of Predestination .................................................................. 671