[9] Of him, too, Moses clearly speaks as a second Lord,
after the Father, when he says, “The Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the Lord.” Him the divine Scripture also calls God when
he appears in human form to Jacob,* saying to Jacob, “Thy name shall no more be
called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name because thou hadst power with God.”*
Then, too, “Jacob called the name of the place ‘the Vision of God,’ saying,
‘For I saw God face to face and my life was saved.’ ”
Lake Kirsopp, “Preface,” in The Ecclesiastical History
and 2: English Translation, ed. T. E. Page et al., trans. Kirsopp Lake and J.
E. L. Oulton, vol. 1, The Loeb Classical Library (London; New York; Cambridge,
MA: William Heinemann; G. P. Putnam’s Sons; Harvard University Press,
1926–1932), 17.
[9] τοῦτον δεύτερον μετὰ τὸν πατέρα κύριον
σαφέστατα Μωυσῆς ἀναγορεύει λέγων* “ἔβρεξε κύριος ἐπὶ Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα θεῖον
καὶ πῦρ παρὰ κυρίου·” τοῦτον καὶ τῷ Ἰακὼβ αὖθις ἐν ἀνδρὸς φανέντα σχήματι, θεὸν
ἡ θεία προσαγορεύει γραφή, φάσκοντα τῷ Ἰακὼβ* “οὐκέτι κληθήσεται τὸ ὄνομά σου Ἰακώβ,
ἀλλʼ Ἰσραὴλ ἔσται τὸ ὄνομά σου, ὅτι ἐνίσχυσας μετὰ θεοῦ,”* ὅτε καὶ “ἐκάλεσεν Ἰακὼβ
τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ τόπου ἐκείνου Εἶδος θεοῦ,” λέγων “εἶδον γὰρ θεὸν πρόσωπον πρὸς
πρόσωπον, καὶ ἐσώθη μου ἡ ψυχή.”
Eusebius, The Ecclesiastical History and 2: Greek Text,
ed. T. E. Page et al., vol. 1, The Loeb Classical Library (London; New York;
Cambridge, MA: William Heinemann; G. P. Putnam’s Sons; Harvard University
Press, 1926–1932), 16.
On the meaning of δεύτερος
in patristic literature:
δεύτερος, second; 1. in rank; a. of Son’s relationship to
Father υἱὸν … θεοῦ μαθόντες, καὶ ἐν δ. χώρᾳ ἔχοντες Just.1apol.13.3(M.6.348A);
οὕτω καὶ σοφία καὶ ἀλήθειά ἐστιν ὁ κύριος, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἄλλης σοφίας δ.
Ath.dion.25.3(p.65.9; M.25.517B), ἡ ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς μεγαλιότητος δ. μεγαλιότης
Pap.Chr.4.16.1.14(p.446); in subordinationist sense ὁ υἱὸς … δ. γάρ ἐστι τοῦ
πατρός Or.princ.1.3.5(p.56.3; M.11.150B); ὁ δέ, ὡς ἐξ αἰτίου γεγονὼς υἱὸς δ. οὗ
ἐστιν υἱὸς καθέστηκεν … βουληθεὶς γὰρ ὁ θεὸς γέγονεν υἱοῦ πατὴρ καὶ φῶς δ. κατὰ
πάντα ἑαυτῷ ἀφωμοιωμένον ὑπεστήσατο Eus.d.e.4.3(p.153.11,15; M.22.256B); τὸν πρῶτον
κύριον ὡς ἂν καθόλου τῶν ἁπάντων δεσπότην, Ἑβραῖοι ἀνεκφωνήτῳ προσρήσει τῇ διὰ
τῶν τεσσάρων στοιχείων ἀνηγόρευον· τὸν δὲ δ. οὐκέθʼ ὁμοίως, ἰδίως δʼ αὐτὸν
κύριον ὠνόμαζον ib.5.3(p.219.13; 361C); δ. εἰκότως καὶ αὐτὸς ἂν εὐσεβῶς
χρηματίζοι κύριος ib.5.6(p.230.6; 380B); Eunomian δ. ἔσται τοῦ πατρὸς ὁ υἱός, αἴτιον
αὐτὸν ἔχων Cyr.thes.9(51.68C); b. of man in relation to God,
Max.ep.10(M.91.452D) (“Δεύτερος,” in A Patristic Greek Lexicon, ed. G.
W. H. Lampe [Oxford: At The Clarendon Press, 1961], 340)
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