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Pseudo-Dionysius · John Parker (1897)
CONCERNING Divine Names — the first and greatest of the treatises of Dionysius the Areopagite: how the Nameless God is yet celebrated under every name — Good, Light, Beautiful, Love, Being, Life, Wisdom, Power, and One. Translated by the Rev. John Parker, 1897. CAPUT I. TO MY FELLOW PRESBYTER, TIMOTHY, DIONYSIUS THE PRESBYTER. What is the purpose of the discourse, and what the tradition concerning Divine Names. Now then, O Blessed One, after the Theological Outlines, I will pass to the interpretation of the Divine Names, as best I can. But, let the rule of the Oracles be here also prescribed for us, viz., that we shall establish the truth of the things spoken concerning God, not in the persuasive words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit-moved power of the Theologians, by aid of which we are brought into contact with things unutterable and unknown, in a manner …
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