О святителе Григории Богослове

Gregory the Theologian was a contemporary of Basil the Great, received his ordination as Bishop of Sasima, but, leaving Sasima, took charge of the Church in Nazianza, in his homeland, obeying his father Gregory in this. In 378, the Council held in Antioch sent him to Constantinople to take care of the Orthodox. However, in the face of the Second Ecumenical Council, Gregory the Theologian refused the primacy entrusted to him by Theodosius the Great in the reigning city and went to Arians, the area neighboring Nazians. There he wrote many poetic works and in 391 after the Nativity of Christ he ended his mortal life at the age of 91, according to Fabricius. Of all the editions of his works, the Parisian 253 is considered the best. Despite the fact that all the creations of the saint are approved by Rule VI Ecumenical. 2, in the Pandects there is only a definition written in heroic verse 254 about which books of the Old and New Testaments should be recognized. We present it here 255. In the saints of our father Gregory the Theologian. Heroic poems about which books should be recognized But so that your mind is not misled by foreign books - after all, there are many counterfeit writings - accept from me, friend, this verified list. So, in total there are twelve historical books of ancient Jewish wisdom. The first is Genesis, then Exodus, Leviticus, then Numbers, then Deuteronomy, then Jesus and the Judges, Ruth is the eighth, and the ninth and tenth are Acts of Kings, then Chronicles, your last book is Ezra. There are five books of poetry, the first of which is Job, then David, then the three books of Solomon: Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs and Proverbs. There are also five books of the prophetic spirit, one in Scripture is twelve: Hosea, Amos and the third Micah, then Joel, then Jonah and Obadiah, Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah, Haggai, then Zechariah and Malachi. This is one book, and the second is Isaiah, then Jeremiah, called from infancy, then Ezekiel and Daniel's grace. So I indicated twenty-two Old Testament books, according to the number of Hebrew letters, now count the books of the new sacrament. Matthew described the miracles of Christ for the Jews, Mark for Italy, Luke for Achaia, and John, the great heavenly preacher, for everyone. Then the Acts of the Wise Apostles, fourteen epistles of Paul, seven conciliar epistles, of which one is of James, two of Peter, three of John again, and the seventh of Jude. Here you have all the books, but if there are any other than them, then they are not among the genuine ones 256. This rule does not require any interpretation or explanation, since, as we said, it does not contain anything other than an indication of which books should be accepted as true from the Old Testament and which from the New, so that we do not be deceived and accept false things as true, and this does not cause spiritual damage. Please note that these verses are in many places incorrect in size, but we found them as well as wrote them. See also Apost. 85, in which we talk more about these books. See: Chain of interpreters on the Octateuch. T. 1. P. 12. About the strength of his eloquence, the Arian Philostorgius (see Svida’s article on Apollinaris) says: “Apollinaris significantly surpassed others in the interpretation of the Scriptures, Vasily was brilliant in laudatory speeches, Gregory, in comparison with both of them, had an advantage in prosaic narration and in style was more serious than Apollinaris and more thorough than Vasily” (TLG 9010/001 3397. 23–27.). Please note that in his other works Gregory the Theologian accepts the Apocalypse of John as a true and inspired book. And the fact that it is not mentioned in the apostolic canons recorded by Clement is not surprising, because at the very time when John the Theologian, as he says, wrote the Apocalypse on Patmos, where he was exiled by the ruler Domitian, Clement was exiled by the same Domitian to Tauride Chersonesos, where he died. So, the book of the Apocalypse had not yet been written at the time when Clement wrote down these rules.