Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Poet

Gregory Pardos (1070-1156) (episkopos of Korinthos < Corinthia < Peloponnesos < Greece)

• Holy Spirit
• Holy Trinity
• Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33)
• John the Baptist (10 BC-1 BC - 1st c.)
• Jordan (river)

• The divine light that burns the evil, the one who creates and steers everything through His divine Word, became mortal because of His most deep compassion, [and] came determined to the Jordan river [5] asking John for the great holy Light, He who created the entire light! He is baptized, the Father bears witness from on high; the spirit appears down here on earth to confirm it. [10] For now the Trinity flashed her divine Grace, illuminating flashes forth the entire fulfilment of the world.

  Language

  English

  Source(s)

  N. Zagklas 2022, Gregory of Corinth: A Cycle of Epigrams on the Dodecaorton, in F. Spingou (ed.), The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (vol. 2), Cambridge / New York, 1311-1324: 1315

• Licht Gottes, das das Böse brennend tilgt,
  der alles wirkt, mit seinem Logos treibt,
  ist Mensch geworden aus dem tiefsten Mitleid.
  An Jordans Fluten kam er voller Ruhe,
  bat des Johannes großes, heiliges Licht
  um Taufe, er, der alles Licht erschuf!
  Er wird getauft, bezeugt vom Vater droben;
  der Geist erscheint hienieden end erklärt es.
  Göttliche Gnade strahlt die Trinität,
  die nun des Kosmos FÜlle ganz erhellt.

  Language

  German

  Source(s)

  H. Hunger 1982, Gregorios von Korinth Epigramme auf die Feste des Dodekaorton, Analecta Bollandiana, 100, 637-651: 639-640

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