Potamius of Lisbon

Steven Avery

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Hi,

Raymond Brown - Epistles of John, Anchor Bible, 1982
"....Priscillian, who is the first clear witness to the Comma."

Bruce Metzger and Bart Ehrman (Text of the NT - 4th ed, 2005, p. 147=148)
The oldest known citation of the Comma is in a fourth-century Latin treatise entitled Liber apologeticus (Chapter 4), attributed either to Priscillian or to his follower, Bishop Instantius of Spain.

Ian Howard Marshall, Epistles of John, 1978
"They are attested by a number of Latin writers, the earliest certain reference being in the Liber Apologeticus of the Spanish writer Priscillian (ob. c. 385) or his follower Instantius."

Grantley Robert McDonald - Raising the Ghost of Arius
"It is in another such a profession of faith—the Liber apologeticus (c. 380) of Priscillian, a Spanish bishop executed in 385 on charges of sorcery and heresy—that we first find the comma cited unambiguously."

Three of these four do not mention Potamius, Grantley only en passant.

So there is no reason that Priscillian becomes the terminus post quem for the heavenly witnesses being in the Latin Bibles! Scholarship often needs updating.

The six references in De Trinitate come to play, five often theorized around the time of Potamius. Also the Expositio Fidei Chatolice.
 

Steven Avery

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Sick Bill Brown
"You apparently are incapable of sticking with the subject, which began as "which is the first certain citation."

Nope.
The claim from Ehrman, which is being corrected:

"Priscillian is our earliest witness"

Which is simply false.
 
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Henry Chadwick (1920-2008)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Chadwick_(theologian)
In the 1960s, along with scholars like E. R. Dodds, Peter Brown, and John Matthews, Chadwick helped make Oxford a centre in the developing study of Late Antiquity. He clarified the classical philosophical roots of Christian thinkers from Justin Martyr and Clement of Alexandria to Augustine of Hippo,[9] ... he was editor of Oxford Early Christian Texts (from 1970), and was able to work on two major monographs, Priscillian of Avila: the occult and the charismatic in the early Church (published 1976) and Boethius: the consolations of music, logic, theology and philosophy (published 1981)

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Priscillian of Avila: The Occult and the Charismatic in the Early Church (1976)
Henry Chadwick
http://books.google.com/books?id=mObYAAAAMAAJ

[Chadwick] In the passage of the first tractate ...monotheism is underpinned not only by texts from the Old Testament but also by the "Comma Johanneum" ...the three heavenly witnesses in the first epistle of John (5:7-8). ...However, the case for thinking Priscillian himself the author of the interpolation carries no conviction. It is surely older... (Chadwick, Priscillian of Avila, 1997, p. 90)

Longer text

In the passage of the first tractate where the Binionites are attacked , monotheism is underpinned not only by texts from the Old Testament but also by the Comma Johanneum, the interpolation of the three heavenly witnesses in the first epistle of John (5:7-8). Priscillian is the first writer to provide certain attestation of the interpolated text which, in the form cited by him, ended 'and these three are one in Christ Jesus ' . However , the case for thinking Priscillian himself the author of the interpolation carries no conviction.1 It is surely older (Cyprian , De Unitate 6, comes close to it ), a modification of the text made in the West at a time when the Monarchian controversy was raging in the third century

Footnote 1 needed

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Chapman on Priscillian and Cyprian Unity of the Church
http://books.google.com/books?id=XYpAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA264

PIC and we can expand (use Chadwick and Chapman in reponse to Ehrman!)

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Si quis uero hanc fidem non habet, catholicus dici non potest; qui catholicam non tenet fidem, ALIENUS EST, PROFANUS EST, aduersus ueritatem rebellis est.

Cyprian, De Cath. Eccl. Unit. 6

Nec perueniet ad Christi praemia qui relinquit ecclesiam Christi; ALIENUS EST, PROFANUS EST, hostis est'

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Reformed Dogmatics: God and Creation
Bavinck et al
https://books.google.com/books?id=oiTZ1XdqVBcC&pg=PA271

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If it was quoted or assumed by Tertullian, it must have been extant as early as 190; and if Cyprian cited it, it must have been known about 220. If the African version contained the text, as attested by a manuscript from the fifth century and one from the seventh century, one can go back even farther, for the African version dates from around 160 and came to Italv around 250.

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Raymond Brown is all over the map on the origination question
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/bib...-comma-johanneum-and-raymond-brown-t5746.html

2. The Comma In Writers before Priscillian (A.D. 200-375)
Let us now look in the other direction to see if there was pre-Priscillian knowledge of the Comma. On the one hand, del Alamo (“Comma” 88—89) gives evidence to show that Priscillian was quite free with biblical texts and might well have shaped the Comma himself by combining the original I John passage with the reflections of the North African church writers (e.g., Cyprian) on the Trinity. On the other hand, as we saw in A2 above and also in the INTRODUCTION (VI B), there were early Latin additions to I John for which there is little or no support in Greek MSS.; and one may wonder if the origins of the Comma are to be divorced from such earlier Latin textual expansions. (24) Moreover, Riggenbach (Comma 382—86) argues on the basis of variants (25) that Priscillian’s was only one form of the Comma which, therefore, must have antedated him. (However, Lemmonyer, “Comma” 71-72, points out that variants would have arisen when the Comma was still a meditation on I John 5:7-8 and before it became part of the Latin biblical text.) One way to control these theoretical observations is to check through the church writers before Priscillian for knowledge of the Comma; and because of subsequent history, particular attention must be paid to North Africa. In Tertullian’s Adversus Praxean (25.1; CC 2, 1195), written ca. 215, he comments on John 16:14 in terms of the connection among the Father, the Son, and the Paraclete: “These three are one thing [unam] not one person [unus] as it is said, ‘My Father and I are one’ [John 10:30]” This is scarcely a reference to the Comma, but it should be kept in mind as we turn to Cyprian (d. 258), another North African.26 In De ecclesiae catholicae unitate 6 (CC 3, 254) Cyprian states, “The Lord says, ‘The Father and I are one [John 10:30],’and again of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit it is written, ‘And three are one.”27 There is a good chance that Cyprian’s second citation, like the first, is Johannine and comes from the OL text of I John 5:8, which says, “And these three are one,” in reference to the Spirit, the water, and the blood. His application of It to the divine trinitarian figures need not represent a knowledge of the Comma,28 but rather a continuance of the reflections of Tertullian combined with a general patristic tendency to invoke any scriptural group of three as symbolic of or applicable to the Trinity. In other words, Cyprian may exemplify the thought process that gave rise to the Comma. That Cyprian did not know the Comma Is suggested by its absence In the early Pseudo-Cyprian work Dc rebaptismate which twice (15 and 19; CSEL 38, 88, 92) cites the standard text of I John 5:7_. 8.29Similarly other church writers, even in North Africa, who knew Cyprian’s work show no knowledge of the Comma. In particular, the mid-sixth-century African, Facundus of Hermiane, in his Pro Defensione Trium Capitulorum ad Iustinianum (1.3.9—14; CC 90A, 12—14), cites I John 5:7—8 without the Comma (which he does not seem to know) as proof for the Trinity—the trinitarian references are derived from the significance of the Spirit, the water, and the blood. Facundus then goes on to quote Cyprian in the same vein, thus understanding Cyprian to have given a trinitarian interpretation of the standard I John text.

25 These may be seen from comparing the Comma In Priscillian’s Liber apologeticus, in Contra Varimadum, and in the Palimpsest of León.

26 It has been argued seriously by Thiele and others that Cyprian knew the Comma, a knowledge which would make second- or third-Century
North Africa the most probable area of origin. I would rather speak of area of formation.

27 See also Cyprian’s Epistula 73.12 (CSEL 32, 787) where the same “three are one” statement is applied to God. Christ, and the Spirit without a reference to Scripture.

28 Somewhat favorable to Cyprian’s knowledge of the Comma is that he knew other Latin additions to the Greek text of I John, e.g., the addition to 2:17 (NOTE on 2: 17e). Unfavorable to knowledge of the Comma is his use of “Son” instead of "Word,” although that is an occasional variant in the text of the Comma, e.g., Fulgentius, Contra Fabianum (Frag. 21.4; CC 91.4, 797), applies the “three are one” to the Divine Persons, and speaks of the “Son.” while in his Responsio contra Arianos (cited above) he speaks of the “Word.”

29 The Pseudo-Cyprianic Sermo de Centesima, published by L Reitzenstein, ZNW 15 (1914) 60—90, is attributed by H. Koch, ZNW 31(1932) 248, to fourth-century Africa and (possibly) to a follower of Priscillian, drawing upon Cyprian’s works. It speaks of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as “three witnesses” without any reference to I John (PL Supp 1, 65; Reitzenstein, 87).


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Ancient Magic and Ritual Power
edited by Paul Mirecki, Meyer
https://books.google.com/books?id=7ud5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA447

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The Making of a Heretic
Virginia Burrus

Priscillian's introductory remarks include a condemnation of the "Binionites," those who divide Christ from God.[57] All the tractates place great stress on the unity of Christ and God, and Priscillian may well have created the Binionites—who appear only in his writings—as a fitting counterpart to his own highly unitive theology.[58]

58. Chadwick suggests that the "Binionite" heresy was coined by Priscillian in response to accusations that he was a "Unionite," pointing out that the term "Unionita" is applied to Sabellius by a work falsely attributed to Jerome ( Indiculus de haeresibus ), which may be based on the Apology of Ithacius ( Priscillian of Avila , p. 87). However, there is in fact no evidence that Priscillian's unitive theology was an issue in the controversies of his lifetime. In 400, trinitarian issues were implicitly raised in the demand of the Council of Toledo that the Galicians Symphosius and Comasius condemn Priscillian's statement that the Son is innascibilis ( Exemplar , ll. 27-37, 52-58). It was not until the second decade of the fifth century that Orosius explicitly charged Priscillian with trinitarian errors: "Trinitatem autem solo verbo loquebatur, nam unionem absque ulla existentia aut proprietate adserens sublato 'et' patrem filium spiritum sanctum hunc esse unum Christum docebat" ( Commonitorium de errore Priscillianistarum et Origenistarum 2). Several mid-fifth-century documents that also stem from Galicia associate Priscillianism with the failure to distinguish adequately between the persons of the Trinity and consequently with the claims that either God suffered or the man Jesus did not suffer. But Abilio Barbero de Aguilera argues that the anti-Priscillianist Regula fidei falsely attributed to the Council of Toledo (400) is in fact a mid-fifth-century revision of a fourth-century document reflecting the trinitarian concerns of an earlier, pre-Priscillianist era; the redacted Regula fidei in turn shaped the anti-Priscillianist Commonitorium and Libellus that Turibius of Astorga addressed to Leo of Rome (preserved only in Leo, Ep. 15) and the anti-Priscillianist chapters of the Council of Braga (561) ("El priscilianismo: ¿Herejía o movimiento social?" 25-41)

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Continue checking Grantley-Westmisnter and RGA, Tarmo Toon, KJVToday and Tim Dunkin, skim Burrus and more.
 
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Athanasius Disputation with Arius

July 13, 2021
https://ehrmanblog.org/how-the-trin...c14c40fcccfdaa4fb4990db86ae9d6#comment-122129

matthew - good questions.

Steve Waldron runs over a lot of info, I will only cover your question about John Gill and Athanasius

Die pseud-athanasianische Disputatio contra Arium is one of the Greek evidences for the authenticity of the heavenly witnesses. Annette von Stockhausen shared:

"My idea was that it's a writing probably meant and composed as an introductory text of an early collection of works of Athanasius (ep.Aeg.Lib. and Ar I-III) that was maybe compiled in Alexandria. It's more 5th century than 4th century (but I have no "real" indications for that, I must admit) and I tentatively proposed the young Cyrill of Alexandria as author (also: no hard evidence, but the feeling that Cyrill and Alexandria could be fitting for the text)." .. correspondence

Here is the Greek text translated:

“But the absolving and quickening and sanctifying laver, without which no one shall see the kingdom of heaven—is it not given to the faithful in the Thrice-Blessed Name? And in addition to all these things, John
says, ‘And the Three are One."

The disputed text in St. John
Henry Thomas Armfield
https://books.google.com/books?id=5eQCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA56

The textual critics have handled this poorly.

Cyprian, Jerome and other evidences deserve a separate discussion.

Steven Avery
Dutchess County, NY, USA
https://www.facebook.com/groups/purebible/

Heavenly Witnesses
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php?forums/heavenly-witnesses.3/
 

Steven Avery

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Ehrman blog



There are two evidences that need special attention.

Cyprian - Unity of the Church 1.6, quoted John 10:30 and:

The Lord says, "I and the Father are one"
and again it is written of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
"And these three are one."

The critics often try to pretend that Cyprian was involved in an invisible allegorization of the earthly witnesses. An absurd position, but common today. Scrivener at least said it was "surely safer and more candid to admit that Cyprian read v. 7 in his copies". Franz Pieper is excellent as well.

The second special reference is the Vulgate Prologue to the Canonical Epistles, Jerome writing to Eustochium. This Prologue discusses how the heavenly witnesses was dropped because the doctrine was discomfiting. The response has been to try to declare this writing a "forgery", an attempt based on nothing substantive, except the supposed lateness of the Prologue. However, Codex Fuldensis, dated 546 AD, was published by Ranke c. 1850, and has the Prologue. Hmmm

Jerome was working with Greek and Latin mss. way back in the Ante-Nicene era.

Thanks!
 

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Potamius of Lisbon - made easier to read.
(For heavenly/earthly witnesses, I simply BOLD the text, so the reader can see the context without Conti or me placing in a verse number.)

● Letter to Athanasius the Bishop of Alexandria on the consubstantiality of the Son of God. You must justly admit that, when your poisonous desire of impure slander was inflamed, the venerable fathers transfixed you with pious arrows in that holier council. Here also it is clearly shown that you held before you fetters of malicious distortion, since the Savoir says: "I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent him." (John 6:38) What do you answer, serpent? Is it really possible that you seek to obfuscate the brightness of this [PAGE 138] pure profession, which they consider to be a very small problem? The occasion has a bearing on the matter. The Lord our Savior appeared to mankind as a human being, since he had clothed himself with a human body. Therefore, he said: "I have come down from heaven not to do my own will." (John 6:38) He denied the exercise of the humanity that was in him. Therefore, he cries out in order to proclaim in himself the predecessor whom he remembers as his Father and begetter. Since the Son is named second, therefore he who precedes is greater: but, because "these three are one", the substance of him who sends and of him who is sent, in the context of the unity of the Godhead, is one: "I and the Father are one." (John 10:30), and "He sees me, sees the Father." (John 14:9) and, as the Savoir himself said to the Apostles: "I have been so long with you and yet you do not know the Father." (John 14:9)

(Potamius of Lisbon. "Letter to Athanasius the Bishop of Alexandria on the consubstantiality of the Son of God" in the life and works of Potamius of Lisbon edited and translated by Marco Conti, 1998, p. 136)

● Letter on the Substance of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 3. With good reason John asserts: 'and the three of them are one' 'Substance ' is the expression of a single entity. In fact the substance of a thing is the totality of that through which a thing exists. Thus 'substance' will set a certain condition under a certain authority, or shows that a certain condition is subjected to it. As a consequence 'substance' is that through which the perplexity of faith is resigned and the unity of the Trinity is bound together.

(Potamius of Lisbon. "Letter on the Substance of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit" in the life and works of Potamius of Lisbon edited and translated by Marco Conti, 1998, p. 150)

● Letter on the Substance of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 10. And now, if you agree, since we have burst out from the spring of the Trinity, let us examine again, like keen investigators, the innermost nature of the 'substance', from which the spring gushes and flows out. Thus the Savior proclaimed: 'The Father and I are one' (John 10:30). Likewise John says: "And the three of them are one'. And David also: "For this purpose God has anointed you, your God' (Ps. 44:8) he says - that is, the God to whom David's words, the half of your part of which he is the whole. 'Yours' - he says - that is devoted to you, to whom your yourself should be made over. He is 'yours' to whom the words are spoken, or 'his' who comes, or 'of him' whom he frequently meets.'Your God', he says, to whom you certainly belong, with whom you are associated thanks to unity, or who, from his 'substance', is associated with you. But since the power of the Father is the Son, the power itself pertains to its 'substance', because 'substance' cannot exist without power. With good reason the 'substance' of the Father and the Son is one.

(Potamius of Lisbon. "Letter on the Substance of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit" in the life and works of Potamius of Lisbon edited and translated by Marco Conti, 1998, p. 156)

● Letter on the Substance of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 19. What the Son made, the Father caused. What the Father wanted, the Son fulfilled. The Father ordered all that the Son commanded. The will of the Father is everything for which the Son feels compassion: in fact the Word of God, Christ, that is the power of the Father, has put everything into effect. That is why the Father has made all that the Son has ordered. Indeed the Father with his power, when the Son descended to the underworld, through the Son and his self-same power, broke the adamantine bars of hell, and with the word of power evoked the dead men from the bowels of the abyss, and with the flaming sword of his mouth, according to the judgement delivered by his Christ, exiled the devil. This is one substance, this is the invisible and eternal majesty, this is the everlasting unity of the undivided Trinity. As John says: 'And the three of them are one'. And Peter implores 'three tabernacles' (Mark. 9:4), and 'every word is confirmed by three witnesses' (Matt. 18:16).

(Potamius of Lisbon. "Letter on the Substance of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit" in the life and works of Potamius of Lisbon edited and translated by Marco Conti, 1998, p. 162)

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DIFFERENCES IN TWOGIG Aug 2022
[Epistula de Substantia] For the Son has expressed the will of the Father, since everything has been
carried out by the word of God, Christ, that is to say, the power of the Father. Hence it follows that the
Father did what the Son ordered. For the Father with his power, when the Son descended into hell,
through the Son and with the same power, he broke the steel bars of Tartarus and with the word of his
own power brought the dead from the depths of hell and with the flaming spear from his mouth sent the
devil into exile through the order given by his Christ. This is one substance, this is the undivided
and eternal majesty, this is the everlasting unity of the undivided Trinity. As John says: "And
the three are one." (1 John 5:7) And Peter asks for "three tents" and "every word is fixed with
three witnesses" (Potamius of Lisbon, Epistula de Substantia Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti)

o Latin: Quod Filius fecit, Pater operatus est. Quod Pater voluit implevit et Filius. Pater iussit
quicquid Filius imperavit. Patris voluntas est quicquid Filius miseretur: omnia enim verbum dei,
Christus, hoc est virtus Patris, exercuit, inde est, quod Pater fecit quicquid Filius ordinavit. Pater
enim virtute sua, descendente ad inferos Filio, per filium eademque virtute adamantinas tartari
seras infregit, et verbo virtutis de secretis barathri mortuos evocavit, et diabolum flammea oris
romphea Christi sui per sententiam exulavit. Haec est una substantia, haec invisibilis et
aeterna maiestas, haec indiscissae Trinitatis unitas sempiterna.
Ut Iohannes ait: 'Et tres unum sunt' (I Ioh. 5:7). Et 'tria tabernacula' Petrus exorat (Marc. 9:4), et 'tribus testibus verbum omne consistit (Matt. 18:16).
(Potamius of Lisbon, Epistula de Substantia Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, 19; Latin text: Yarza Urkiola, Potamio de Lisboa, Epistula de substantia, 1999, p. 291)
 
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Steven Avery

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André Wilmart (1876-1941) - French
Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson (1916-1988)
Manlio Simonetti (1926-2017)
Marco Conti (b. 1961)
Antonio Montes Moreira (b. 1935)

Are scholars who discuss authorship.
It is likely Potamius although some allow other possibilities in the mid 4th century.
https://forums.carm.org/threads/syriac-peshitta-kjvo-pure-line-and-the-comma.9270/page-7#post-695050

Andrew Criddle referenced Hanson and brought up the authorship here.
http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8027
 

Steven Avery

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Short summary placed on CARM
https://forums.carm.org/threads/speculum-liber-de-divinis-scripturis.10899/page-9#post-849980

Potamius of Lisbon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamius

This is very clear and simple, only a contra who loves absurd invisible allegories can bog it up.

"Letter to Athanasius the Bishop of Alexandria on the consubstantiality of the Son of God"

Therefore, he cries out in order to proclaim in himself the predecessor whom he remembers as his Father and begetter. Since the Son is named second, therefore he who precedes is greater: but, because "these three are one" (SA: I John 5:7)

Letter on the Substance of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit..

3 With good reason John asserts: 'and the three of them are one' (SA 1 John 5:7)

10. And now, if you agree, since we have burst out from the spring of the Trinity, let us examine again, like keen investigators, the innermost nature of the 'substance', from which the spring gushes and flows out. Thus the Savior proclaimed: 'The Father and I are one . Likewise John says: "And the three of them are one' (SA 1 John 5:7).

19 Indeed the Father with his power, when the Son descended to the underworld, through the Son and his self-same power, broke the adamantine bars of hell, and with the word of power evoked the dead men from the bowels of the abyss, and with the flaming sword of his mouth, according to the judgement delivered by his Christ, exiled the devil. This is one substance, this is the invisible and eternal majesty, this is the everlasting unity of the undivided Trinity. As John says: 'And the three of them are one' (SA I John 5:7).
 

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cjab gives a bit of translation
https://forums.carm.org/threads/speculum-liber-de-divinis-scripturis.10899/page-9#post-850141

From Marco Conti p. 56 - link here (I searched a long time for this link and what a treasury it is):

"At the age of Potamius, during the Arian controversy, this irresolute wavering between a Trinity conceived as a threefold, or a twofold unity prevailed, and only after 360 [Council of Alexandria] did theologians begin to discuss in a more organic way the role of the Holy Spirit. Therefore this is the reason why
"Potamio da una parte abbondi in affermazioni generiche comprendenti tutta la Trinità soprattutto sulla traccia del Comma Ioanneum (cf. 48: quia tres unum sunt: however Potamius is almost certainly quoting the authentic text of I Joh. 5,8 and not the Comma: cf. Montes Moreira, Potamius, 170, 222, 235), mentre d' altra parte, allorchè la trattazione si fa analitica, egli la limita allo studio del rapporto fra il Padre e Cristo ( Simonetti, ariana, 134)".

Italian translated as follows:
"On the one hand, Potamius abounds in generic affirmations including the whole Trinity, especially on the trail of the Comma Ioanneum" (cf. 48: quia tres unum sunt: however Potamius is almost certainly quoting the authentic text of I !oh. 5,8 and not the Comma: cf. Montes Moreira, Potamius, 170, 222, 235), while on the other hand, when the discussion becomes analytic, he limits it to the study of the relationship between the Father and Christ (Simonetti, ariana, 134)".
 
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Potamius de Lisbonne et la Controverse Arienne. By António Montes Moreira, O.F.M. (Travaux de doctorat en théologie et en droit canon, N.S., i). Pp. xx + 350. Louvain: Bibliotheque de l'Université, 1969. $5.50.
 

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https://www.academia.edu/31710564/G..._Una_prima_ricognizione_con_qualche_sorpresa_

Abstract
This paper focuses on the presence of Jerome as a source for the Liber Glossarum. My work provides an overview of this presence (with detailed tables displaying lists of glosses and Jerome‘s quoted works) and a discussion about problems and opportunities connected with this kind of research. In the last section, the paper offers the analysis of a specific entry - LG, SV 373-374 (Substantia) – whose text is ascribed to Jerome by the Liber Glossarum, even though without any confirmation within his corpus of writings. I show how these two glosses actually contain a large portion of the Epistula de Substantia written by Potamius of Lisbon. The Liber Glossarum seems to be the earliest witness for Potamius‘ text.

Vt Iohannes ait: Et tres unum sunt. Et tria tabenacula Petrus exorat et tribus testibus uerbum omne consistit [...]

p. 251
GIROLAMO NEL LIBER GLOSSARUM. UNA PRIMA RICOGNIZIONE
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Ut Iohannes ait: 'Et tres unum sunt' Et 'tria tabernacula' Petrus exorat (Marc. 9:4), et 'tribus testibus verbum omne consistit (Matt. 18:16).
(Potamius of Lisbon, Epistula de Substantia Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, 19; Latin text: Yarza Urkiola, Potamio de Lisboa, Epistula de substantia, 1999, p. 291)

Is the full section identical?
o Latin: Quod Filius fecit, Pater operatus est. Quod Pater voluit implevit et Filius. Pater
iussit quicquid Filius imperavit. Patris voluntas est quicquid Filius miseretur: omnia
enim verbum dei, Christus, hoc est virtus Patris, exercuit, inde est, quod Pater fecit
quicquid Filius ordinavit. Pater enim virtute sua, descendente ad inferos Filio, per
filium eademque virtute adamantinas tartari seras infregit, et verbo virtutis de secretis
barathri mortuos evocavit, et diabolum flammea oris romphea Christi sui per
sententiam exulavit. Haec est una substantia, haec invisibilis et aeterna maiestas, haec
indiscissae Trinitatis unitas sempiterna. Ut Iohannes ait: 'Et tres unum sunt' Et 'tria
tabernacula' Petrus exorat (Marc. 9:4), et 'tribus testibus verbum omne consistit (Matt. 18:16).

Extra Search
"liber glossarum" "tres unum" - not much
 
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