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lS8 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
and dwelt with bodyless spirits, and were out of the flesh even when
in the flesh. Take for me, as a proof of these things, the words of him
who as in reaHty had put on God; For I say ^
noi because I am bound and
am able to understand the heavenly things, and the places of angels, and the
statiotis of principalities, visible, to wit, and ifivisible, from
this am I
already a disciple ; for many things are lacking to us, so that we may not
be lacking of God (
Trail. 5).
Let us therefore, since Christ is our head and master, and not man,
as He says in the Gospels, be prepared for the kingdom of Heaven like
:
the saying of the martyr Ignatius, So that we may not be altogether lacking
of God, to whom praise is meet for ever and ever. Amen.
Brit. Mits. Add. 12159, containing a Syriac version, mutilated in parts, of the
Epithroniaii or Entkroniastk Sernions {^o^ol iiridpovioi. or ivdpoviaffTiKoi) of Severus,
—
so called because they were delivered by him from the patriarchal chair (a.d. 513
518). On the nature of this work see Fabric. Btdt. Graec. X. p. 617, ed. Harles, Mai
Script. Vet. Nov. Coll. ix. p. 725, Assem. Bibl. Orient. I.
pp. 494, 570 sq, Wright's
Catalogiu p. 534 sq.
It is divided into three books, containing Hom. i— 43, 44
— 90,
91 — 125, respectively.
These sermons were twice translated into Syriac (see above p. 25). Large
portions of both versions are extant in the Nitrian Mss of the Vatican and the British
Museum. Our MS contains the later version, made by Jacob of Edessa, A.D. 701,
to whom the note on Hom. 65 is due. The colophon giving the date of the MS is
mutilated, but enough can be deciphered to fix the year of writing
to a.d. 868
(Wright's Catalogue p. 545). On these homilies, delivered in the Church of S. Ignatius
on the day of SS. Basil and Gregory, see above, I. pp. 24 sq, 48, and below, 11. p.
421 sq.
The extracts relating to Ignatius are given and translated by Cureton (C /.
pp. 215 sq, 247 sq).
(5) Epistulae Severi et Juliani.
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