Andrew of Crete

[Steven Avery]

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5 refs, I am focusing on one.

Andrew of Crete (650-740)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_of_Crete
Andrew of Crete (Greek: Ἀνδρέας Κρήτης, c. 650 – July 4, 712 or 726 or 740), also known as Andrew of Jerusalem, was an 8th-century bishop, theologian, homilist,[1] and hymnographer. He is venerated as a saint by Eastern Orthodoxy and the Catholic Church.

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Liturgy and Ritual (1891)
https://books.google.com/books?id=OxgQnoNsrcIC&pg=PA30

[Canon] Glory. We all praise the one divine Being in the Trinity, Three existences, uncreated, undivided, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, because the Three are also one Being.
(Andrew of Crete. Canones et Triodia. Canon in Mediam Pent.; Translated by Jeroen Beekhuizen, correspondence, March 2020)

Greek: Δόξα. Τὴν μίαν ἐν Τριάδι Θεότητα, οὐσίαν τρισυπόστατον, ἄκτιστον, ἀμέριστον πάντες δοξολογοῦμεν, Πατέρα καὶ τὸν Υἱόν, καὶ τὸ Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, ὡς τρία οὖσαν καὶ ἕν.
(Andrew of Crete, Glory. Canones and Trinity. Canon in Mediam Pent.; Migne Graeca, PG 97.1428)

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Alexandru Prelipcean
https://uaic.academia.edu/AlexandruPrelipcean

Does the Great Canon of Andrew of Crete speak about the heresies and their combating? Brief Remarks (2017) English p. 523-530
http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_31743_vp_3380/c/3380-3376.pdf
hosted
http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_31743_vp_3380

“From Adam to Moses”: the Typology of the Old Testament Characters from the Kontakia of Romanos the Melodist and its Assessment on the Great Canon of Andrew of Crete
https://www.academia.edu/29446095/_...essment_on_the_Great_Canon_of_Andrew_of_Crete

Creation as Eucharist in the Great Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete (2011)
https://teologiesiviata.ro/en/creation-eucharist-great-canon-saint-andrew-crete

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[Steven Avery]

KJVToday

Andrew of Crete
Andreas Cretensis (born c. 635) was an archbishop of Crete. He cites the Comma in the vocative case in Magnus Canon (PG XCVII, 1345):

"Υπεραρχιε, συμμορφε, πανσθενεστατη Τριας αγια Πατερ, Λογε, Πνευμα αγιον΄ θεε, Φως, και Ζωη, φυλαττε την ποιμνην σου."

"O High Ruler, O conformed, all powerful holy Trinity: O Father, Word, Holy Ghost, O God, Light, and Life, guard your flock."

ONLINE LINK to Magnus Canon
https://books.google.ca/books?id=0h...ce=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[Steven Avery]

Knittel
https://books.google.com/books?id=kKsCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA105

Porson
https://books.google.com/books?id=SUg7AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA234

Thomas Turton
http://books.google.com/books?id=ut07AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA30

Middleton
https://books.google.com/books?id=gdRJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA618

Charles Forster
http://books.google.com/books?id=EKwCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA5

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LATIN AUTHORS

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[Steven Avery]

Check if this is also on the Chrysostom page - nope

LITURGY OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

Unless otherwise indicated, the texts of the prayers and hymns of the Divine Liturgy are from: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (© 2016), used with permission from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. This text was produced by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and approved by the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

From Pentecostarion
Canon 2 of Mid-Pentecost.
Ode vi. Mode pl. 4. N/M (The waves of life.)
https://www.agesinitiatives.com/dcs/archive2020/dcs/h/s/2020/05/13/li2/gr-en/index.html
https://www.agesinitiatives.com/dcs/public/dcs/h/s/2021/05/26/ma3/en/index.html

We all glorify one Godhead in Trinity, Being in three Persons, uncreated, inseparable, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, as being three yet one.

Μακάριοι ἐστὲ ὅταν ὀνειδίσωσιν ὑμᾶς, καὶ διώξωσι, καὶ εἴπωσι πᾶν πονηρὸν ῥῆμα καθ' ὑμῶν, ψευδόμενοι ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ.

 

[Steven Avery]

Grantley nibbles on the edges of these texts, (nothing at all on Andreas Cretensis) when he tries to dismiss Charles Forster.
We have a special post on that attempt.

“Βλέπε γάρ μοι τὰς μαρτυρίας τῆς ἁγίας καὶ ὁμοουσίου Τριάδος, καὶ σέβου ταύτην ὀρθῶς, ἵνα μὴ ἀπόλῃ.”

Which one is this above?

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RGA - 286

He also has a note related to Richard Simon and Montfortianus

BCEME - p. 150

119 Chrysostom 1834–1839, 8.2:785.

 

[Steven Avery]

The Witness of God is Greater

Andrew of Crete (650-740 AD)

Saint Andrew of Crete (Greek: Ἀνδρέας Κρήτης, c. 650 – July 4, 712 or 726 or 740), also known as Andrew of
Jerusalem, was an 8th-century bishop, theologian, homilist,[1] and hymnographer. He is venerated as a saint by Eastern
Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christians. Born in Damascus in c. 650, to Christian parents. From birth, Andrew was a
mute until he was the age of seven. According to his hagiographers, he was miraculously cured after receiving Holy
Communion. He began his ecclesiastical career at fourteen in the Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified, near Jerusalem,
where he quickly gained the notice of his superiors. Theodore, the locum tenens of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem (745–
770) made him his Archdeacon, and sent him to the imperial capital of Constantinople as his official representative at the
Sixth Ecumenical Council (680–681), which had been called by the Emperor Constantine Pogonatus, to counter the
heresy of Monothelitism. Shortly after the Council he was summoned back to Constantinople from Jerusalem and was
appointed Archdeacon at the "Great Church" of Hagia Sophia. Eventually, Andrew was appointed to the metropolitan see
of Gortyna, in Crete. Although he had been an opponent of the Monothelite heresy, he nevertheless attended the
conciliabulum of 712, in which the decrees of the Ecumenical Council were abolished. But in the following year he
repented and returned to orthodoxy. Thereafter, he occupied himself with preaching, composing hymns, etc. As a
preacher, his discourses are known for their dignified and harmonious phraseology, for which he is considered to be one
of the foremost ecclesiastical orators of the Byzantine epoch. Church historians are not of the same opinion as to the date
of his death. What is known is that he died on the island of Mytilene, while returning to Crete from Constantinople, where
he had been on church business. His relics were later transferred to Constantinople. In the year 1350 the pious Russian
pilgrim Stefan of Novgorod saw his relics at the Monastery of Saint Andrew of Crete in Constantinople. At modern Skala
Eresou on Lesbos (ancient Eresos) is a large Early Christian basilica church in honour of St. Andrew. His masterpiece,
the Great Canon (also known as the Canon of Repentance or the Great Canon of Repentance), is the longest canon ever
composed (250 strophes). It is written primarily in the first person, and goes chronologically through the entire Old and
New Testaments drawing examples (both negative and positive) which it correlates to the need of the sinful soul for
repentance and a humble return to God. It is divided into four parts (called methymony) which are chanted at Great
Compline on the first four nights of Great Lent (one part per night); later, it is chanted in its entirety at Matins on Thursday
of the fifth week of Great Lent. (Andrew of Crete. Wikipedia. <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_of_Crete>)

HITS:
● Great Canon: Over every authority, sharing the same form, all powerful Holy Trinity: O Father, Word, Holy Ghost, O God, Light, and Life, guard your flock."

(Andrew of Crete, The Great Canon. Song 8. Tone 6; Migne Graeca, PG 97.1345; Translated by Pavlos D. Vasileiadis, correspondence, November 2019).

○ Greek: Ὑπεράρχιε, σύμμορφε, πανσθενεστάτη Τριὰς ἁγία· Πάτερ, Λόγε, Πνεῦμα ἅγιον· Θεὲ, Φῶς, καὶ Ζωή, φύλαττε τὴν ποίμνην σου. (Andrew of Crete, The Great Canon. Song 8. Tone 6; Migne Graeca, PG 97.1345).

● Great Canon: Let us bless the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Lord. To The Trinity: Eternal Father, coeternal Son, gracious Comforter, Spirit of Truth; Father of the Divine Word, Word of the Eternal Father, living and creative Spirit, Trinity Unity, have mercy on us.

(Andrew of Crete, Magnus Canon ; Translated by Priest Seraphim Holland. www.orthodox.net/greatlent/great-canon-fifth-week.html )

○ Greek: Εὐλογοῦμεν Πατέρα, Υἱὸν, καὶ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα. Ἄναρχε Πάτερ, Υἱὲ συνάναρχε, Παράκλητε ἀγαθὲ, Πνεῦμα τὸ εὐθὲς, Λόγον Θεοῦ Γεννῆτοπ, Πατρὸς ἀνάρχου Λόγε, Πνεῦμα ζῶν καὶ κτίζον, Τριάς Μονάς, ἐλέησόν με.
(Andrew of Crete, Magnus Canon; Migne Graeca, PG 97.1377)

● [Homily 21] In name God. The uncountable and incomprehensible, the unsearchable as well as unspeakable, who became like me, and through his Name again revealed himself publicly. Not only is the Son called so with the most proper name, but equally is the Father from having begotten [called] Father, and is the Spirit from having proceeded called Spirit, because also the Three are One God and in these is the Divinity.

(Andrew of Crete, Homilie 21. About the circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the holy Kingdom; Translated by Jeroen Beekhuizen, correspondence March 2020)

○ Greek: ᾿Εν κλήσει Θεός. Ὁ ἄποσος καὶ ἀσυνείκαστος, ἀνεξερεύνητος τε καὶ ἀνώνυμος, τὸ κατ᾿ ἐμέ γενόμενος, καὶ δι᾿ ὀνομασίας πάλιν φανερῶς γνωρίζεται. Οὐκ ἐστι μόνον Υἱὸς τῷ ἰδικωτάτῳ ὀνόματι λεγόμενος ὥσπερ καὶ Πατὴρ διὰ τὸ γεννῆσαι, Πατήρ καὶ Πνεῦμα. διά τὸ ἐκπορευτῶς ἔχειν, καλεῖται Πνεῦμα ἐπεὶ καὶ τὰ τρία εἷς Θεός τα ἐν οἷς θεότης.
(Andrew of Crete. Homiliae XXI, Εἰς τήν περιτομήν τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, καί εἰς τόν ἅγιον Βασίλειον. Migne Graeca, PG 97.913)

[Birthday of Mary] Glory. We adore you, Father without beginning in essence; we sing the praise of your timeless Son, and we worship the co-eternal Spirit, as three that are one God in nature.
(Andrew of Crete, September 8, birthday of the Most Holy Lady Mother of God)

o Greek: Δόξα. Σὲ προσκυνοῦμεν Πάτερ ἄναρχε τῇ οὐσία, ὑμνοῦμεν ἄχρονον τὸν Υἱόν σου, καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμα συναΐδιον σέβομεν, ὡς ἕνα τὰ τρία φύσει Θεόν.

(Andrew of Crete, "Septembris Octava die : Natale sanctissima Domina Deipara", in SS. Patrum Amphilochii Iconiensis, Methodii Patarensis, et Andreae Cretensis : opera omnia quae reperiri potuerunt, 1644, p. 259)

● [Canon] Glory. We all praise the one divine Being in the Trinity, Three existences, uncreated, undivided, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, because the Three are also one Being.

(Andrew of Crete. Canones et Triodia. Canon in Mediam Pent.; Translated by Jeroen Beekhuizen, correspondence, March 2020)

○ Greek: Δόξα. Τὴν μίαν ἐν Τριάδι Θεότητα, οὐσίαν τρισυπόστατον, ἄκτιστον, ἀμέριστον πάντες δοξολογοῦμεν, Πατέρα καὶ τὸν Υἱόν, καὶ τὸ Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, ὡς τρία οὖσαν καὶ ἕν.
(Andrew of Crete, Glory. Canones and Trinity. Canon in Mediam Pent.; Migne Graeca, PG 97.1428)

Comment:
[Prelipcean] The second allusion with polemical purpose concerns the Pneumatological heresy. Throughout the Great Canon, the Byzantine author draws attention to the veneration of the Holy Spirit, saying that “I sing praises to the Holy Spirit Who shines forth with the Father and the Son”18. Obviously such an expression reflects the very teaching of the Church against the Macedonian heresy, according to which the Holy Spirit was created by the Son of God and was thus subordinate to the Father and the Son. Of course, because of this reason the Holy Spirit does not get the same honor as the other two Persons of the Trinity. In another stanza Andrew does not forget to emphasize the doctrinal truth that the whole Church glorifies the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit19. Other theological issues which concerned or made allusions to the anti-Trinitarian heresies are missing.

(Prelipcean, Does the Great Canon of Andrew of Crete Speak about the Heresies and their Combating?", 2017, p. 526)