[B-Greek] Jerome on Porphyry's take on Jn 7:8

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Tue Jan 27 16:29:23 EST 2004


Thanks to Andrew S. Jacobs of  the Department of Religious Studies
University of California, Riverside,  here's the text of the relevant
section of Jerome's Against the Pelagians 2:17 that shows what, in the
light of Jn 7:10,  Porphyry thought Jesus' statement "I am not (OUK)
going up to the feast"  in Jn 7:8 showed Jesus to be.

Jeffrey

Ut autem ascenderunt fratres ejus, tunc et ipse ascendit ad
solemnitatem, non manifeste,
sed quasi in abscondito (Joan. VII, 10). Iturum se negavit, et fecit
quod prius negaverat. Latrat Porphyrius,
inconstantiae ac mutationis  accusat, nesciens omnia scandala ad  carnem
esse referenda.
Moyses, inquit, dedit vobis legem, et nemo ex vobis facit legem, utique
possibilem, et tamen quod erat
possibile, nemo impleverat,  neque enim culpa imperantis est, sed
fragilitas audientis, ut omnis
mundus subditus fiat Deo.




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Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.)

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