Tractatus contra eos qui imagines faciunt · §u01-rem-early

Unit 1 rem early

Rem early: Unit 1; lemma and argument toward the thesis.

Greek

ἐσόμεθα», καὶ Παῦλος τοὺς ἁγίους «συμμόρφους τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ» ἐκήρυξεν· πῶς ουν τοὺς ἐν δόξῃ μέλλοντας φαιδρύνεσθαι ἁγίους ἐν ἀδόξῳ καὶ νεκρῷ καὶ ἀλάλῳ θέλεις ὁρᾶν, τοῦ κυρίου λέγοντος περὶ αὐτῶν· «εσονται γάρ, φησίν, ὡς αγγελοι θεοῦ». 7 πῶς δὲ καὶ ἀγγέλους πνεύματα ὑπάρχοντας καὶ ἀεὶ ζῶντας ἐν νεκροῖς γράφων προσκυνεῖς, τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος «ὁ ποιῶν τοὺς ἀγγέλους αὐτοῦ πνεύματα καὶ τοῦς λειτουργοὺς αὐτοῦ πῦρ φλέγον»; 8 λέγω δὲ ο τι οὐδὲ αὐτοὶ θέλουσι προσκυνεῖσθαι. 9 «Ορα μή· σύνδουλος γάρ σου εἰμὶ καὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν σου τῶν ἐχόντων τὴν μαρτυρίαν Ιησοῦ. τῷ θεῷ, φησίν, προσκύνησον». 10 ἀλλ' οὐδὲ οἱ ἀπόστολοι ἠθέλησαν προσκυνεῖσθαι. καὶ γὰρ ο τε εὐαγγελίζεσθαι ἀπεστάλησαν, ἑαυτοὺς

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Original English Translation of Epiphanius of Salamis’s Tractatus contra eos qui imagines faciunt — new OET from PG 41–43 Greek.

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