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192 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
The MS 14533
is ascribed by Wright (p. 967) to the 8th or 9th century, and by
Cureton (Spicil. Syr. p. 98, where he gives a fragment of Melito from it) to ' about
the 7th or 8th century.' Prof. Wright assigns the other MS, Add. \i\H, to the 8th
century (p. 921 ).
He has re-transcribed the text for me and given an English translation.
In the second and third lines Land's rendering has been retained, though not the
natural rendering of the Syriac, which yields no adequate sense. There is perhaps
some corruption in the Syriac text. The two Mss, Add. 14533, Add. 12 155, are
designated A, B, respectively in
the notes.
After some remarks of Severus himself, suggested by these extracts, follows a
quotation, ' Of the same from the Letter to Anasfasia the Deaconess.^ Land in his first
volume had not stated, and apparently had not noticed, that the whole preceding
passage, containing the Ignatian quotation, was taken from Severus but he did
;
caution his readers against supposing that Ignatius was intended by this ' '
same
person, adding that the mode of writing and form of quotation showed it to be an
extract from the later father who cited Ignatius, and not from Ignatius himself (p. 35).
Merx however [Zeitschr. fi'ir Wissensch. Theol. 1867, x. p. 96), disregarding this
evidence, asserted that the pseudo-Ignatian literature was thus enriched by another
epistle hitherto unknown. In his second volume (p. 7 sq) Land pointed out that the
previous extract was stated to have come from Severus, and that from the whole complexion
of the MS the letter to Anastasia must also have been written by Severus.
The evidence was complete, when Wright noticed that in the MS Brit. Miis. Add.
1
460 1, fol. 115 b, the very same passage from the beginning of the Letter to Anastasia
is
quoted under the name of Severus of Antioch (see Zeitschr. fiir Wissensch. Theol.
1868, XI. p. 468). In fact a conclusive answer might have been given without
applying to these more recently accessible sources of information, for a letter to
Anastasia the deaconess is mentioned among the works of Severus in Assem. Bibl.
Orient. I. p. 618, and in Fabricius Bibl. Graec. X. p. 619 (ed. Harles).
(8) Hymnus in Ignatium.
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