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134 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
So again we have such renderings as
IlavXov...fxeixapTvpr]ix€vov 'Pauli...
martyrium consummantis' {Ephes. 12), ov X-qaeraL v/jid
n toJv vorjfxdTaiv
Tov SiajSoXov 'nolite vos vulnerare in ahqua contagione diaboh' {Ephes.
14; did this arise from a confusion with the Latin lacdo^ laesi, the word
being read A-Tjo-ere), ov'Sevds Ao'yoj' TroLovjxai twv Ssivwv 'nuUi iniquorum
istorum facio sermonem' [Tars, i), n-apo^vcriJiov's 'acredines' {Polyc. 2),
and the hke. So too ovaiirrjv
is almost universally translated with an
entire disregard of the mood. In Anf. 1 2, Hero 8, it is rendered 'nutrivi';
in Trail. 13, Magn. 12, Tars. 8, 10, Ant. 14, Ephes. 2, 'adquisivi'; in
Philipp. 15 'adjutus sum'; in Philad. 4 'memor sum'. In one passage
indeed, Rom. 5,
it is correctly rendered 'utinam fruar', but this passage
happens to be given in Latin by Jerome {de Vir. III. 16) after Eusebius,
and the Igna ian translator reproduces Jerome's rendering. With these
instances of blunde ing before us, we may question whether the translator
really had any different reading before him, when we find him giving
'auxiliatrix' for 8ia/3or;roii {Ephes. 8), 'laus, laudabilis' for cvwo-t, rivii>\i.ivr]%
{Magn. iT)^ ^4; comp. ib. i).
Other passages however seem to
show that he used a text which had many corruptions; e.g. 'adjutorium'
((Sor/OeLav for ofio-^OeLav) Polyc. I, 'habui' (etxov for elooi/) Ephes. 2, 'placitum
voluntatis ejus' {^.v^oK-qaet
for ov ZokyJucl) Trail. 9 (comp.
ib. 10
'
voluntarie
complacens '),
'
Christi dimicationem ' {^^Lo-TOfxa-^iav
XpiOTToixaOiav) Philad. 8, 'festino' (a-z.v^op.a.1 for cnrivSofjiaL) Antioch. 8.
These examples will have shov/n that this Latin version is absolutely
worthless for interpretational purposes, and that even its textual value is
limited. Still it was evidently translated from an older form of the
Greek than any preserved in extant Greek mss, and there are not a few
passages in which we are able to correct errors or to supply omissions
by its means (see e.g. iii. pp. 154, 164, 1G6, 174, 201, 242, 269 etc).
The cases are very rare however, in which its value for textual purposes
is affected by variations in the readings of the Latin mss themselves, and
in all such cases the correct Latin reading
is at once determinable without
any elaborate weighing of authorities ; e.g. in Rom. inscr., where the
Latin alternatives are ' fide Christi ' and ' lege Christi ',
and the Greek
and we ;)(picrToji'u/xos y^picTTovoix.o'i, at once reject 'fide Christi', because it
has no connexion with either Greek reading. Under these circumstances
it seemed to me that I should only be wasting time and encumbering
my pages to no purpose, if I attempted to produce a revised text of this
Latin version with its
proper 'apparatus criticus,' and I have been content
to avail myself of the labours of my predecessors (see in. p. 133).
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