Primary source · Latin
Gregory of Elvira, On the Orthodox Faith (with the Tractatus Origenis)
Gregory of Elvira · c. AD 360–392
What this text is
A corpus that survived by wearing other men's names: De fide orthodoxa travelled under Ambrose and Phoebadius; the twenty Tractatus Origenis, published in 1900 as 'Origen in Latin', were reassigned to Gregory by Dom Germain Morin — a double case-study in how intransigents' books outlive their labels.
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Public-domain translations
Working translation (from the Latin, CCSL 69)
[On the Faith argues the full Nicene homoousion against every 'likeness' formula; the Tractatus expound scripture from Genesis to the prophets in an Old Latin text of high value.]
Manuscript witnesses
Medieval tradition under borrowed names
8th–9th c. onwardPseudonymous transmission (Ambrose, Phoebadius, 'Origen') — the attribution history is itself the lineage.
Batiffol's editio princeps of the Tractatus
1900Published as Origen; reassigned to Gregory by Morin (1902) — the ascription now standard.
Provenance
Baetica; the intransigent Nicene who outlived every compromise
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Gregorius Iliberritanus: opera (CCSL 69)V. Bulhart (ed.), 1967Critical edition of the corpus.
- Hispania and the Nicene faith (in) The Search for the Christian Doctrine of GodR. P. C. Hanson, 1988Critical frame for Gregory's rigorism and the Luciferian connection.