Saint John of Damascus: Writings

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INTRODUCTION • . • • • • v THE FOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE Preface . • . . • . • S The Philosophical Chapters 1 On Know ledge 7 2 What the Purpose of This Work Is 10 3 On Philosophy. • . • • . . . 11 4 On Being, Substance, and Accident. 13 5 On Tenus . . • . . • . • . 15 6 On Division . . . • . . • . 20 7 On That Which Is by Nature Prior. 25 8 On Definition 26 9 On Genus 29 10 On Species . 31 11 On Individual 41 12 On Difference 41 13 On Accident 43 14 On Property 44 15 On Predicates 45 16 On Univocal and Equivocal Predication. 46 17 On the Predication of the Essence of a Thing and on That of Its Sort . . . . • . . 48 18 What the Five Terms Have in Common and in What They Differ . . • . . 49 19 What Genus and Difference Have in Common and in What They Differ. . • • . • . • • • 50 20 What Genus and Species Have in Common and in What They Differ. . • • • • • . • • • • 50 21 What Genus and Property Have in Common and in What They Differ. • • . • • • • • • 51 22 What Genus and Accident Have in Common and in What They Differ. • . • .• •••• 51 23 What Difference and Species Have in Common and in What They Differ. . • • . • • • • 52 24 What Difference and Property Have in Common and in What They Differ. • • • • • • • • 52 25 What Difference and Accident Have in Common and in What They Differ. . • • • • . • • 52 26 What Species and Property Have in Common and in What They Differ. . . . • • • • . • • 53 27 What Species and Accident Have in Common and in What They Differ. •• •••••• 54 28 What Property and Inseparable Accident Have in Common and in What They Differ. . • • • 54 29 On Hypostasis, Enhypostaton, and Anhypostaton 54 30 On Substance, Nature, and Form; as Well as on Individual, Person, and Hypostasis. 55 31 On Equivocals . 56 32 On Univocals .•..• 59 33 On Mutinominals . ..••.• 59 34 On Things Which Are Different and on Heteronymus Things. . . . . . 60 35 On Conjugates. .. ...... 60 36 On the Ten Most General Genera. . . 61 37 On Things Which are Generically the Same and Specifically the Same; and on Things Which Are Generically Different, Specifically Different and Numerically Different .••..••. 62 38 On Being in Something. • 39 Again on Substance • 40 On Nature • 41 On Form •. 42 On Hypostasis 43 On Person 44 On Enhypostaton 45 On Anhypostaton . 46 The Division of Being . 47 The Division of Substance 48 Again on Things Which Are Generically the Same and Specifically the Same; and on Things Which Are Generically Different and Specifically Different; and on Things Which Are Hypostaticaly the Same and Things Which Are Numerically Different. • 49 On Quantum and Quality. ••• 50 On Relatives .•.. • 51 On 'Being of Such a Sort' and Quality. 52 On Action and Passion . 53 On Position . 54 On Place. ••• 55 On Time. 56 On Having, or State . 57 On Opposites • . . 58 On Habit and Privation 59 On Prior and Posterior . 60 On the Simultaneous. 61 On Motion . 62 On Having • 63 On Statement, Negation, and Affirmation. 64 On Term, Premise, and Syllogism. 65 Various Definitions ., .•• 66 Further on the Hypostatic Union. 67 Six Definitions of Philosophy . xli 63 64 65 65 66 67 68 69 69 70 72 77 80 80 84 86 87 87 87 88 90 91 93 94 96 97 98 99 104 105 68 On the Four Dialectical Methods. • Explanation of Expressions • • • • ON HERESIES I Barbarism · · · · · · · · 2 Scythism . · · · · 3 Hellenism · · · · · 4 Judaism . · 5 The Pythagoreans, or Peripatetics. 6 The Platonists . 7 The Stoics · · · · 8 The Epicureans 9 Samaritanism 10 The Gorthenes . · · · 11 The Sebyaeans . · 12 The Essenes • · · · · · 13 The Dosthenes • 14 The Scribes . · 15 The Pharisees . 16 The Sadduccees 17 The Hemerobaptists . · 18 The Ossenes . · 19 The N asaraeans 20 The Herodians . 21 The Simonians . 22 The Menandrianists 23 The Saturnilians 24 The Basilidians 25 The Nicolaitans 26 The Gnostics 27 The Carpocratians 28 The Cerinthians · xlii · · · · · · · · . · · . . 107 108 111 111 111 113 113 IU 114 114 114 114 114 114 114 115 115 115 116 116 116 116 116 117 117 117 117 118 118 118 29 The N azarenes • · · · · · · · · · · 119 80 The Ebionites • · · · · · · · · · · 119 31 The Valentinians . 119 32 The Secundians · · · · · 119 33 The Ptolemaeans . · · · · 120 S4 The Marcoseans · · · · · · · · · · 120 35 The Colarbasaeans · · · · 120 36 The Heracleonites 120 37 The Ophites · · · · · · 121 38 The Cainites 121 39 The Sethians · · · · · · 121 40 The Archontics 121 41 The Cerdonians 121 42 The Marcionites · · · · · · 121 43 The Lucianists . 122 44 The Apellians . 122 45 The Severians • 122 46 The Tatianists • · · · · 123 47 The Encratites . · · · · 123 48 The Cataphrygians, or Montanists, or Ascodrugites 123 49 The Pepuzians, or Quintillians . 123 50 The Quartodecimans . · · · · 124 51 The Alogians . · · · · · · 124 52 The Adamians . · · · · · 124 53 The Sampsaeans, or Elkesaites 124 54 The Theodotians . · · 124 55 The Melchisedechians 125 56 The Bardesanites 125 57 The N oetians 125 58 The Valesians • · · · · 125 59 The Cathari . · · · · 125 60 The Angelici 126 61 The Apostolici . ' 126 62 The Sabellians. · 126 xliii 63 The Origenians 126 64 Other Origenians 126 65 The Paulianists 126 66 The Manichaeans • 127 67 The Hieracites. • 127 68 The Meletians. . 127 69 The Arians, or Ariomanites, or Diatomites. 127 70 The Audians 128 71 The Photinians 128 72 The Marcellians 128 73 The Semiarians 128 74 The Pneumatochi. 129 75 The Aerians. • 129 76 The Aetians, or Anomaeans . 130 77 The Dimoerites, or Apollinarists 131 78 The Antidicomarianites 131 79 The Collyridians.. 131 80 The Massalians, or Euchites . 133 81 The Nestorians .. 138 82 The Eutychians •• • 138 83 The Egyptians, or Schematics, or Monophysites. 138 84 The Aphthartodocetae. • 148 85 The Agnoetae, or Themistians . 148 86 The Barsanouphites, or Semidalites 149 87 The Hicetae .' • 149 88 The Gnosimachi . 149 89 The Heliotropites 149 90 The Thnetopsychites 150 91 The Agonyclites 150 92 The Theocatagonostae, or Blasphemers 150 93 The Christolytae 150 94 The Ethnophrones 150 95 The Donatists 150 96 The Ethicoproscoptae 151 xliv 97 The Parermeneutae • 98 The Lampetians . 99 The Monothelites 100 The Autoproscoptae 101 The Ishmaelites 102 The Christianocategori, or Iconoclasts 103 The Aposchistae, or Doxarii THE ORTHODOX FAITH BOOK ONE 1 (I) That the Godhead is incomprehensible and that one should not search after or meddle in such things as have not been handed down to us by 151 151 152 152 153 160 160 the holy Prophets, Apostles, and Evangelists. • 165 2 (2) On things which can be expressed through speech and things which cannot, and on things which are knowable and things which are not. 166 3 (3) A proof of the existence of God. . • • • • 168 4 (4) On what God is, and that He is incomprehensible . . . . . . • . 170 5 (5) A demonstration of the fact that there is one 6 (6) 7 (7) 8 (8) 9 (9) 10 (10) God and not several. . . . . . . . • . On the Word and Son of God-a demonstration from reason. . . . . • • • • . . . . On the Holy Ghost-a demonstration from reason . . . . . . • . . . . . . • . On the Holy Trinity. . . . . . . . . . [On the distinction of the three Persons, and on actuality and reason and thought]. • . . On those things which are affirmed of God . On the divine union and distinction . xlv 172 174 174 176 185 189 190 11 (II) On the things that are affirmed of God as if He had a body. . . • . • . • • • • • 191 12 (12) On the same things. . • • •• • • • • • 19~ [Mor~ on the names of God and more precisely] 194 IS (I~) On the place of God, and that only the Divinity is uncircumscribed • . • . . • • • • • 197 [On the place of an angel and of the soul; and on the uncircumscribed] . . • • • • • • 198 [A miscellany on God, and the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and on the Word and the Spirit] . . . . . . . . • • • • • 199 14 (14) The attributes of the divine nature. • . • . 201 BOOK TWO I (15) On the term 'age'. • 203 2 (16) On creation. . • 205 1:1 (17) On angels. . . . • 205 4 (IS) On the Devil and evil spirits. 209 .') (19) On visible creation . . . • 210 6 (20) On the heavens. . . . • . • 210 7 (21) On light, fire, luminaries, the sun, the moon, 8 (22) 9 (23) 10 (24) II (25) 12 (26) 13 (27) 14 (2S) 15 (29) 16 (30) 17 (31) 18 (32) and the stars . . • 215 On air and winds. . . . . . . . • • . 222 On water . . . • . . . . . . . • . . 224 On the earth and the things that come from it 227 On paradise ..' • 230 On man . . 234 On pleasures. • 239 On pain . • 240 On fear . • 240 On anger On the imagination On sense. . . • xlvi , . 241 241 242 19 (33) 20 (34) 21 (35) 22 (36) 23 (37) 24 (38) 25 (39) 26 (40) 27 (41) 28 (42) 29 (43) 30 (44) On thought. • • • • • • • 244 On memory. • • • • • • • • 245 On mental and spoken speech 246 On passion and action. • • 246 On act.. •.•.•• • 252 On voluntary and involuntary. • • 253 On what depends upon us, that is, on free will 255 On things done. • . • • • • • • • . • 257 On the reason for our having been created free 258 On those things which do not depend upon us 259 On providence ••••••• 260 On foreknowledge and predestination • 263 BOOK THREE 1 (45) On the divine dispensation and God's concern for us, and our salvation. • • 267 2 (46) On the manner of the conception of the Word and on His sacred Incarnation. • • • • • 269 3 (47) On the two natures, against the Monophysites. 271 4 (48) On the manner of the exchange of the properties 275 5 (49) On the number of the natures. ••• 277 6 (50) That the entire divine nature was united in one of its Persons to the entire human nature, and not a part of one to a part of the other . 278 7 (51) On the one composite Person of God the Word 281 8 (52) To those who ask whether the natures of the Lord are reducible to a continuous quantity or to ,a divided one . •• 284 9 (53) Answer to the question whether there is such a thing as a nature without subsistence. 286 10 (54) On the Thrice-Holy Hymn.. • 287 xlvii 11 (55) On the nature taken specifically and individually, on the di~ference between union and incarnation, and on how the expression 'the one incarnate nature of the Word of God' is to be understood •• •• •• 289 12 (56) That the holy Virgin is Mother of God, against the N estorians . • •• •• •• 292 13 (57) On the properties of the two natures . • 295 l4 (58) On the wills and freedoms of our Lord Jesus Christ • •• •• •• • 296 15 (59) On the operations whic.h are in our Lord Jesus Christ ••• • • . • 304 16 (60) 17 (61) 18 (62) 19 (63) 20 (64) 21 (65) 22 (66) 23 (67) 24 (68) 25 (69) 26 (70) 27 (71) 28 (72) 29 (73) Against th03e who say that, if man has two natures and operations, then it is necessary to say that Christ has three natures and the same number of operations •.• On the deification of the nature of the Lord's flesh, and on that of His will. • Further on wills and freedoms, minds and knowledges, and wisdoms • On the theandric operation. • On the natural and blameless passions. On ignorance and servitude . On progress • On fear On the prayer of the Lord On appropriation On the passibility of the Lord's body and on the impassibility of His divinity • • On the divinity of the Word remaining inseparable from the body and soul, even in the Lord's death, and on the persistence of the one person On destruction and corruption On the descent into hell xlviii 314 316 318 321 323 324 326 327 328 330 331 332 333 334 1 (74) 2 (75) 3 (76) 4 (77) 5 (78) 6 (79) 7 (80) 8 (81) 9 (82) 10 (83) II (84) 12 (85) 13 (86) BOOK FOUR On the things that came after the resurrection On the sitting at the right hand of the Father Against those that say that, if Christ has two natures, either you adore the creature also by adoring a created nature, or you say that there is one nature that is adorable or one that is not Why it was the Son of God that became man, and not the Father of the Holy Ghost; and what He accomplished, when He became man •• To them who inquire as to whether the Person of Christ is created or uncreated On when He was called Christ . •. To them who inquire as to whether the holy Mother of God engendered two natures, and whether two natures hung upon the cross How the only-begotten Son of God can be caVed first-boni On faith and baptism . On faith . On the cross, wherein still further on faith . On worshiping to the east On the holy and undefiled sacrament of the Lord 14 (87) On the genealogy of the Lord, and on the holy 335 336 336 337 339 340 341 342 343 348 351 352 354 Mother of God 361 15 (88) On the honor due to the saints and their relics 367 16 (89) On images 370 17 (90) On Scripture 373 18 (91) On the things that are said about Christ 376 19 (92) That God is not the author of evil • 383 20 (93) That there are not two principles 385 xlix 21 (94) Why God created those whom He foresaw were to sin and not repent • • • • • • • 387 22 (95) On the law of God and the law of sin • • • 388 23 (96) On the Sabbath, against the Jews • 24 (97) On virginity. • • • 25 (98) On the circumcision • 26 (99) On Antichrist • • 27 (100) On the resurrection • 389 • • • • 393 • • • • 397 398 • 401 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407