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Who, reckoning such things, would not confess before men, that Christ, God's Firstborn and Image, may confess him before his Father? And who would not confess before the angels Christ the Son of Man — of David's seed, of Abraham's seed, born of woman — that, being approved, he may be commended as confessor? For gold is proved in the furnace, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation. But who, fearing men, denies — denies the Son of Man before men, and shall be denied before the angels.
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καὶ τῶν ἀνϑρώπων καὶ οὐ ϑεῶν ἔμπροσϑεν" ἕν᾽ ἡμᾶς ἀμείψηται ὁ ὁμολογηϑεὶς, ὁμολογήσας ἡμᾶς ἔμπροσϑεν τοῦ ϑεοῦ καὶ πατρὸς ἑαυτοῦ καὶ ὁμολογήσας τὸν ὁμολο- γήσαντα αὐτὸν ἐπὶ γῆς αὐτὸς ἐν οὐρανοῖς. XXXV. Τίς δ᾽ ἂν λογισάμενος τὰ τοιαῦτα οὐχ ἐπιφϑέγξεται τὸ ἀποστολικὸν ἐκεῖνο ὅτι οὐχ ἄξια τὰ παϑήματα τοῦ νῦν καιροῦ πρὸς τὴν μέλλουσαν δόξαν ἀποκαλυφϑῆναι εἰς ἡμᾶς." πῶς γὰρ οὐ πολλῷ μείξων ὁμολογίας τῆς ἔμπροσϑεν ἀνϑρώπων ἡ ἔμπροσϑεν τοῦ πατρὸς ὁμολογία: πῶς δ᾽ οὐ καϑ᾽ ὑπερβολὴν ὑπερέχουσα τῆς ἐπὶ γῆς ὁμολο- γίας, ἣν οἱ μάρτυρες ὁμολογοῦσι τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ϑεοῦ, ἡ ἐν οὐρανοῖς τοῦ ὁμολογηϑέντος ὁμολογία; λογισάμενος δέ τις ἀρνήσασϑαι, ἔμπροσ- Hev τῶν ἀνϑρώπων»" ὑπομιμνησχέσϑω τοῦ ἀψευδῶς εἰπόντος" ,ἀπαρ- νήσομαι κἀγὼ αὐτὸν ἔμπροσϑεν τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς." ἐπεὶ δὲ ὁ μὲν Ματϑαῖος ἀνέγραψεν ,οὁμολογήσω κἀγὼ ἐν αὐτῷ ἔμπροσϑεν τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς", ὁ δὲ Λουχᾶς" ,καὶ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ὁμολογήσει ἐν αὐτῷ ἔμπροσϑεν τῶν ἀγγέλων τοῦ 9500“, ἐφίστημι, μή ποτε ὃ μὲν «πάσης χτίσεως" πρωτότοκος", ἡ νεἰκὼν τοῦ ἀοράτου ϑεοῦ", ὁμολογήσῃ τὸν ὁμολογήσαντα ἔμπροσϑεν τοῦ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς πατρὸς, ὁ δὲ γενόμενος „ex σπέρματος Javid κατὰ σάρχα" καὶ διὰ τοῦτο (υἱὸς ἀνϑρώπου" τυγχάνων καὶ γενόμενος &x γυναικὸς καὶ αὐτῆς οὔσης ἀνϑρώπου καὶ διὰ τοῦτο χρηματίζων υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου", ὅσπερ νοεῖται ὃ κατὰ τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἄνϑρωπος, ὁμολο- γήσῃ τοὺς ὁμολογήσαντας ,ἔμπροσϑεν τῶν ἀγγέλων τοῦ ϑεοῦ." τὸ δ᾽ ἀνάλογον καὶ περὶ τῶν ἀρνησαμένων ἀποδοτέον. ἔτι δὲ καὶ τοῦτο ϑεωρητέον, ὅτι ὃ μὲν ὁμολογῶν ἐν τῷ υἱῷ »ἔμπροσϑεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων" τὸ ὅσον ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτῷ συνίστησι χριστιανιο- μὸν καὶ τὸν πατέρα τοῦ χριστιανισμοῦ τούτου ἐφ᾽ ὧν ὁμολογεῖ" ὁ δὲ ὁμολογούμενος ὑπὸ τοῦ πάσης κτίσεως πρωτοτόχου καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνϑρώπου συνίσταται διὰ τῆς τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ϑεοῦ χαὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ 80 τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ϑεοῦ xzal<M τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ϑεοῦ χαὶ P (doch τοῦ ϑεοῦ von 11, Η. τοῦ ἀνϑρώπου ὁμολογίας τῷ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς πατρὶ καὶ τοῖς ἀγγέ- λοις τοῦ ϑεοῦ. εἴπερ δὲ οὐχ ὁ αὐτὸν συνιστάνων, ἐκεῖνός ἔστι δόχι- μος, ἀλλὰ ὃν ὁ κύριος συνίστησι“, πῶς οὐ χρὴ νομίζειν εἶναι δόκιμον τὸν ἄξιον κριϑέντα τῆς πρὸς τὸν ἐν οὐρανοῖς πατέρα καὶ τῆς πρὸς τοὺς 5 ἀγγέλους τοῦ ϑεοῦ συστάσεως; εἰ δὲ doxıuos οὗτος καὶ οἱ παραπλή- σιοι αὐτῷ, οὖς „ag χρυσὸν ἐν xwvevrnoim“ ταῖς βασάνοις καὶ ταῖς ἐξετάσεσιν ἐδοκίμασεν" 6 κύριος ,καὶ ὡς ὁλοκάρπωμα ϑυσίας προσ- εδέξατο", τί χρὴ λέγειν περὶ τῶν ἐλεγχϑέντων ἐν τῇ καμίνῳ τοῖ πειρασμοῦ xal ἀρνησαμένων, οὗς ὡς ἀδοκίμους ἀρνεῖται ἔμπροσϑεν 10 τοῦ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς πατρὸς καὶ ,ἐνώπιον τῶν ἀγγέλων τοῦ ϑεοῦ"“ 6 τὸν ἄξιον ἀρνήσεως ἀρνούμενος;