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These things, to my power, as I was able, have been dictated to you — which I pray may prove useful for the present contest. But if you, most worthy now, see more of God's mysteries, grasping greater and richer things, and more helpful to the purpose than these — things beside which, as childish and cheap, you shall despise mine — I too would pray such concerning you. For what lies before you is not to accomplish your course through us, but to accomplish it somehow. And would it be accomplished through diviner and wiser words, surpassing all human nature — words and wisdom of God!
Greek (GCS)
αντες τῷ ἑαυτῶν ϑανάτῳ τὸν ϑεὸν, ἐπείπερ ὃ μαρτυρῶν τῷ ἑαυτοῦ (,ϑανάτῳ δοξάσει 5 τὸν Heov“ ὅπερ καὶ αὐτὸ ἀπὸ Ἰωάννου μεμαϑήχαμεν εἰπόντος" »ταῦτα δὲ εἶπε σημαίνων ποίῳ ϑανάτῳ δοξάσει τὸν ϑεόν." LI. Ταῦτά μοι. κατὰ τὸ δυνατὸν, οἷς οἷόν τε ἦν, πρὸς ὑμᾶς ὑπη- γόρευται, ἅπερ εὔχομαι ὑμῖν γενέσϑαε πρὸς τὸν παρόντα ἀγῶνα χρήσιμα. εἰ δ᾽ ὑμεῖς μάλιστα νῦν εἷς ἄξιοι πλείονα βλέπειν τῶν τοῦ 10 ϑεοῦ μυστηρίων μείζονα καὶ πλουσιώτερα καταλαμβάνοντες καὶ πρὸς τὸ προκείμενον ἀνυσιμώτερα τούτων οἷς παιδιχῶν καὶ εὐτελῶν κατα- ποτὲ ἀνυσϑῆναι. καὶ εἴϑε γε ἀνυσϑείη διὰ ϑειοτέρων καὶ συνετωτέ- 15 ρων καὶ ὑπερεχόντων πᾶσαν ἀνϑρωπίνην φύσιν λόγων καὶ σοφίας ϑεοῦ. jetzt fast ganz verschwunden P | 12 πρόχειται] π und _ jetzt erloschen P | 18