Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 29

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§ 3.

TRANSITION AMONG THE FATIIKRS

5

—

but to the was simply called airaihevTo^i, philosopher and tlie knowledge Jdgher development of the

«Xto9

Traiheia

necessary for a given profession or calling. the common icvK\o<i of the life of the citizen.

This excelled

Thus

iyKvicXio'i

was the loiver and ordinm-y in antithesis to what was reached by higher knowledge. When the higher knowledge of the Christian Religion came out of Israel into the Roman-Grecian world, it was but natuiraiheia

ral that Christian scholars

should class the entire heathen-

what was lower and common, in the Holy Scriptures. This antithesis to the higher readily explains the fact that, as we are told by Suicer (see his Thesaurus in voce), in the Greek of ecclesiastical literclassical

development

witli

yvcoai'; of

ature iyfcvKXio<; iraiSeia gradually obtains a modified signifi-

cance and comes to

mean

the knowledge or science which

covered the entire circle of the heathen-classical against which stood OeoXoyia, OecopLa, or

f^voiai^

life

over

;

as higher

knowledge. Suicer infers this from what Eusebius writes viz. in his Qhurch History, VI. 18, concerning Origen 'i^codev and in ra trained the youth (f)LXo(TO<f)La'i that he rrf'i tlie showing them subseinstructed them in the iyKVKXia, quent benefit they should derive from this later on for sacred studies. In the same sense Hesychius would explain iyKVKXia as being ra €^co ypafifxaTa, which means that the ;

formed a circle to the heathen Greek, in which he himself was included and of which he formed the centre while to the Christian Greek ra ecrco were the mysteries of the Christian religion, and the iyKVKXto<; iraiSeia came to him e^wOev, i.e. from without his circle of life. €yKVKXio<i iratSeia

;

Thus,

if

a closer investigation

this transition

confirms us in this view,

was gradual and led

to iy/cvKXLo<; iraiheCa,

no longer signifying the common instruction given to the ordinary citizen, but the whole realm of worldly science in distinction from Sancta Theologia. As Zonaras states it "Simply ever}' art and science." :

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