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3 Jul 2024

Different Types Of Wisdom

...ἡ γὰρ καύχησις ἡμῶν αὕτη ἐστίν, τὸ μαρτύριον τῆς συνειδήσεως ἡμῶν...

Τὸ πρὸς θεὸν ἡμῶν καύχημα μαρτυρεῖται ἐκ τῆς συνειδήσεως· εἴρηται δὲ περὶ τῆς συνειδήσεως τῆς μὴ δεχομένης πρόσωπον. Aὕτη οὖν ἡ καύχησις ἥτις μαρτύριον τῆς συνειδήσεως ἡμῶν ὑπάρχει, παρεσκεύασεν ἐν ἁγιότητι καὶ εἰλικρινείᾳ ἀλλὰ μὴ ἐν ἀνθρωπίνῃ παιδεύσει ἀναστραφῆναι ἐν παντὶ τῷ κόσμῳ, μάλιστα δὲ πρὸς ὑμᾶς· ὁ γὰρ κατὰ τὸ εὐαγγέλιον παιδεύων οὐκ ἀνθρωπίνην ἐπαγγέλλεται διδασκαλίαν ἀλλὰ τὴν ἐκ τῶν ἁγίων γινομένην γραφῶν, ἥτις διὰ τὸ ἐκτὸς εἶναι κηλῖδός τινος εἰλικρινής ἐστιν. Σαρκίνην δὲ σοφίαν τὴν περὶ αἰσθητῶν ὠνόμασεν, ἣν ὁ ἔχων οὐ χωρεῖ τὴν τοῦ Πνεύματος σοφίαν, μωρίαν αὐτὴν λογιζόμενος. Ἔθος δὲ τῇ γραφῇ τὰ περὶ τῶν κοσμικῶν καὶ ὑλικῶν μαθήματα σάρκινα καλεῖν· οὕτω γοῦν καὶ φρόνημα λέγεται τῆς σαρκός, καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τῆς σαρκὸς καταλέγονται αἱρέσεις, φαρμακεῖαι, εἰδωλολατρεῖαι. οὐ γὰρ ἔτι ταῦτα σάρκινα ῥητέον παρονομαζόμενα ἀπὸ τῆς αἰσθητῆς σαρκός· εἴρηται γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς ὑλικῆς ἕξεως καθ' ἣν ὁ ἐνεργῶν κατὰ σάρκα περιπατεῖν λέγεται, καὶ γίνεται σάρκινος πραθεὶς ὑπὸ ἁμαρτίαν. Ὅμως δὲ εἰ καὶ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ οἰκουμένῃ ἀνεστράφημεν ἐν ἁγιότητι καὶ εἰλικρινείᾳ, ἀλλ' οὖν τοῦτο πρὸς ὑμᾶς μᾶλλον καὶ μᾶλλον πεποιήκαμεν.

Δίδυμος Αλεξανδρεύς, Εἰς Τὴν Δευτέραν Ἐπιστολήν Παύλου Πρὸς Κορινθίους

Source: Migne PG 39.1686b
...for it is our boast, whose witness is our conscience... 1

The boast before God has its witness from conscience, which conscience is said to be no respecter of persons. This, then, is the boast whose witness is conscience, that he has conducted himself with holiness and purity, not according to a human way of teaching in any place of the world, especially among you, for he who is educated in the rule of the Gospel can hardly be said to proclaim human teaching, but that which Holy Scripture hands down. And he goes on to speak of a carnal wisdom of sensible things, which he who has, cannot have the wisdom of the Spirit, because it is thought to be foolish. It is the custom of Scripture to name worldly and material disciplines carnal. So there is mention of a carnal wisdom 2 and heresies are reckoned among the work of the flesh, and likewise witchery and idolatry, 3 but it is not that these things which are called carnal, by the giving of such a name, are actually flesh, but they are said rather to come from material affection, by which he who acts is said to walk according to the flesh, and to be handed over to sin. Even so, he then continues, even if in all the world we have conducted ourselves with holiness and purity, we have done so much more with you.

Didymus the Blind, On The Second Letter of Saint Paul to The Corinthians, Fragment

1 2 Cor 1.12
2 Rom 8.6
3 Galat 5.20

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