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Headword:
Spithamê
Adler number: sigma,941
Translated headword: hand-span
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "The prophetic text used the word figuratively in reference to God, because he holds creation together, and encompassing it with his grasp he brings everything into order and arrangement, having assigned symmetry to mountains and limits [to waters] and to all things in the cosmos their own order. He who encompasses the entirety of heaven with a small part of his own entire power, which the text figuratively called 'hand-span'."
Greek Original:Spithamê: tropikôs epi tou theou ho prophêtikos logos ônomasen, hoti sunechei tên ktisin, kai peridedragmenos autês eis taxin hapanta kai diakosmêsin agei, kai oresin isorropian kai metra, pasi tois en tôi kosmôi tên oikeian taxin apoklêrôsas. ho ton ouranon holon mikrôi merei tês holês autou dunameôs periechôn: hên spithamên tropikôs ho logos ônomase.
Notes:
Derived with minor modifications from Basil of
Caesarea,
On the Holy Spirit 5.7 (PG 32.80c); hence also
Catena in epistulam ad Romanos (typus Monacensis) 428. 'The prophetic text' referred to is
Isaiah 40:12
LXX, where the present headword -- nominative singular, probably a generic lexical reference -- appears in the dative singular.
For this term see also
sigma 942; and cf. under (e.g.)
alpha 518,
gamma 367,
delta 1434,
pi 63.
Translated by: William Hutton on 18 March 2014@10:04:37.
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