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io6 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
which was closely connected with 2 (just as S^S.^SgS^ are connected
with it), and from which the Armenian was translated. In other words,
we have independent proof that S^ S^ S3 S^ were not mere isolated
passages translated from Greek into Syriac for the occasion, but part
of a complete Syriac version of the Middle recension, whose existence
we desire to establish'.
The results of the foregoing investigations, as regards their bearing
on textual criticism, are evident. They are stated at a later point in
these volumes, 11. p. 3 sq.
Syriac Martyrdom [S,„], a version of the Antiochefie Acts, incor-
to the Romans. It is contained in four known
porating the Epistle
Mss, of which the first and third are imperfect.
(i) Brit. Mus. Add. 7200, a volume containing various Acts of
Martyrdom.
It contains these Acts of Ignatius (fol. 98)
from the
beginning to ttoXiv ecro^ai ^wi/t^, Rom. 2. The end is
unfortunately
wanting. This MS, before it came into the possession of the British
Museum, belonged to Claudius J. Rich, English Resident at Bagdad.
It is described in the Catal. Cod. MSS Orient, qui in Mus. Brit,
asservantur i.
p. 92 sq, where it is assigned to the 13th century; but
Cureton (C /. p. 362) considers it 'to be rather more ancient'. From
this MS Cureton first printed these Acts (C / p. 222 sq),
with a trans-
1
The reader is now in a position to it. His argument, resting on a gratuitous
assumption, is so absolutely null,
estimate the value of Bunsen's protest
against ' Professor Petermann's assumption
that the Syriac text is an extract it seriously, etc' It is difficult to see
that it is scarcely possible to formulize
from an old Syriac version, of which the how an honest man, as Bunsen unquestionably
was, could have used this lan-
Armenian text is a translation '
[ll'ippolytus
II. p. 432). 'For this assumption,' guage, if he had read Petermann's preface
and notes with any degree of care.
'
he boldly adds, there is no ground
whatsoever. The Armenian translation The statement which I have italicised is
represents throughout the text of the directly contradicted by facts. So elsewhere
he writes in the same strain ;
Greek Letters, including those which are
acknowledged to be false and
; its various Hippolytiis I. p. 357 sq (note).
readings show the thorough corruption Bunsen however has this excuse, that
of our Greek text. There is not the he wrote before the full effects of Petermann's
investigations had made them-
shadow of a reason to assume that the
Armenian translation was made from a selves felt. The case is different with a
Syriac text, and not, like all other Arvienian
translations of Greek fathers, shields himself under Bunsen's authority,
writer who a quarter of a century later
from the Greek. But had it been so made, and quotes his words apparently with
the argument for or against the seven approval Supernatural Religion ; I. p.
(or rather twelve) Letters would remain xlvi sq (6th ed. 1875).
exactly where Professor Petermann found