Honorius Augustodunensis
PL 172, col. 254C
English
'And the Spirit of the Lord was borne over the waters,' or 'was warming the waters,' that is, was giving life to all that was to be brought forth from the waters. And note the Trinity: to God the Father is ascribed the creation of the world, to the Son the disposing of things, to the Holy Spirit the quickening, or adorning, of all.
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Latin
Et Spiritus Domini ferebatur super aquas, vel aquas fovebat, id est cuncta de aquis procreanda animabat. Et nota Trinitatem. Deo Patri ascribitur mundi creatio, Filio rerum dispositio, Spiritui sancto omnium vivificatio, vel ornatio.
PL 172, col. 254C · pd
Notes
By 1140 'vel aquas fovebat' is offered as a bare variant reading, no Syrian, no bird: the image has become a lemma.
Bird brooding, warmingThe Trinity named
Threads
- → echoes · Augustine
Honorius states the triad and then does something Augustine does not: he distributes the works. 'Note the Trinity: to God the Father is ascribed the creation of the world, to the Son the disposition of things, to the Holy Spirit the quickening or adorning of all.' That is the appropriation doctrine of the twelfth-century schools laid over the first two verses, and it is the distribution of labour Augustine had warned against. - → echoes · Augustine
'vel aquas fovebat, id est … animabat' offers the Syriac 'warmed' as a bare variant; the wording 'animabat' follows Ambrose/Augustine's vivificatio.