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176 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
Of the blessed Ignatius, bishop and martyr, from the Epistle to
the
Ephesians.
Where is the wise Where is the dispiiter Where is the boastifig of
those who are called knowing For our God Jesus Christ was conceived
of Mary in the econotny of God, of the seed of David, and of the Holy
Ghost : who was horn and baptized, that He might p2irify the passible
waters. And there deceived the ruler of this world the virginity of
Mary, and her child-birth, and in like via7ina' also the death of the
Lord ;
three mysteries of the shout, which were dofie in the sileyice
of God
{Ephes. 18, 19).
Of the same, from the Epistle to the Magnesians.
There is one God, who manifested Himself through Jesus Christ His
Sou, who is His eternal Word. He did not proceed from silence: who in
every thing pleased Hiin who sent Him {Magn. 8).
Of the
same.
Permit ye fne to be an imitator of the suffering of my God {Rom. 6).
Timotheus, sumamed Aelurus, properly 'the Cat,' but possibly here 'the Weasel'
(Wright's Catalogue p. 1051), warmly espoused the Monophysite cause. The date
given (a.d. 457) is the year of his accession to the patriarchate of Alexandria. He
died A.D. 477, having been an exile during a considerable part of these twenty years.
For more respecting him see Tillemont Mem. Eccl, XV. p. 782 etc, Le Quien Oriens
Christ. II. p. 412 sq, Mai Script. Vet. Nov. Coll. vii. i. p. 277. The fact of his
writing against the fathers of Chalcedon is mentioned by Evagrius H. E. ii, 10.
Churton (Pearson Vind. Ign. p. 98 sq), following the Quarterly Reviewer (see
Cureton V. I. p. 49), ascribes these works to a later Alexandrian patriarch of the
same name (a.d. 519
— 535). There can hardly be a doubt however that the author
was Timotheus Aelurus.
Brit. Mus. Add. 12 156, among other tracts relating to the Council of Chalcedon,
contains these works :
(i) 'Against the Diphysites' by Timotheus. On fol. i a is the set of quotations
from the Romans, as given above.
(ii) 'Many Testimonies of the holy Fathers' etc, apparently collected by the
same Timotheus. On fol. 69 a, b, is the other set of quotations [^Ephesians,
Magnesians).
A note in the MS states that it was presented to a certain monastery, a.d, 562 (see
Cureton C. I. p. 353, Wright's Catalogue pp. 640, 648). The Syriac version therefore
must have been nearly coeval with the writings themselves. The extracts are published
and translated by Cureton, C. I. pp. 210, 243. Dr Wright has kindly collated
Cureton's texts with the Syriac Mss and revised his translations in the case of these
and of the other Syriac extracts given in this chapter.