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Headword: Theos
Adler number: theta,178
Translated headword: God
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"Trying to interpret the meaning of 'God and Lord', Philo[1] attained the concept of the most royal Trinity. For in saying that God is one he did not aim at the unity in number, but at the mystery of the Holy Trinity, which is more unitary than those things which are in any way divisible, but more abundant than those things which are truly unitary. And thus he laid his life on the line, so to speak, in asserting that the powers of Him Who Is are two. Of these [powers] the one which is creative and energizing, he says, is called God, but the one which is royal and judicial [is called] Lord.[2]
But the Greeks believe god to be immortal being, rational, perfect, spiritual, in true happiness, unable to admit any evil, exercising providence for the universe and those things which are in the universe. [They do not] however [believe that god] is in human form, but that he is the creator of all and a kind of father of all, and commonly also [they call god] the part of him which permeates everything, which is named with many designations according to its powers.[3]
Greek Original:
Theos: hoti Philôn tou theos kai kurios tên sêmasian hermêneusai peirômenos tês basilikôtatês triados ennoian eschen. phaskôn gar hoti heis esti ho theos ou pros ton arithmon katedrame tês monados, alla pros to mustêrion tês hagias triados, to tôn men pantêi diairetôn henikôteron, tôn de ontôs monadikôn aphthonôteron. kai houtô katakratos heilen autou tên psuchên, hôs eipein, duo men einai tas tou ontos dunameis, hôn hê men poiêtikê kai energêtikê, phêsi, kaleitai theos, hê de basilikê kai timôrêtikê kurios. theon de einai doxazousin Hellênes zôion athanaton, logikon, teleion, noeron, en eudaimoniai, kakou pantos anepidekton, pronoêtikon kosmou te kai tôn en kosmôi: mê einai mentoi anthrôpomorphon: einai de ton men dêmiourgon tôn holôn kai hôsper patera pantôn, koinôs de kai to meros autou to diêkon dia pantôn, ho pollais prosêgoriais prosonomazetai kata tas dunameis.
Notes:
For this headword see also theta 179, theta 180, theta 181
[1] Philo of Alexandria, a.k.a. Philo Judaeus (phi 448).
[2] George the Monk, Chronicon 527.8-17.
[3] Stoic doctrine from Diogenes Laertius 7.147.
Keywords: Christianity; ethics; historiography; imagery; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 December 2001@17:04:37.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 1 September 2002@07:56:36.
Catharine Roth (added keyword) on 8 November 2005@17:54:10.
David Whitehead (more x-refs and keywords; tweaking) on 1 January 2013@04:26:07.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 3 January 2013@23:49:57.

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