--- "Daniel J. Milton" <
dmilt1896@...> wrote:
> The on-line Lewis and Short Latin dictionary has
> 'creatio' noted
> as "very rare". Is there a specific Christian usage
> relating to the
> birth of Jesus, for this time frame (or any other)?
> Dan
*****GK: Apparently the 4th century Latin "orthodox"
Christians tended to avoid this term for the Nativity
of Christ, because of its ambiguity to Greek users
(and in translation of letters, documents et sim.).
Here's a quote from Jerome's Commentary on the Epistle
to the Ephesians, Book II: "Quod autem ait: 'qui
secundum Deum creatus est' [Eph. 4:24 GK], non idipsum
sonat in Latino sermone quod Graeco. CREATIO quippe
apud nos, GENERATIO, vel NATIVITAS dicitur: apud
Graecos vero sub nomine CREATIONIS, verbum FACTURAE et
CONDITIONIS accipitur. Et quod apud nos CONDITIO, hoc
apud Graecos CREATIO sonat. Unde et haeresis
nativitatem Christi calumnians." The "heresy" is of
course Arianism.******
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