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194 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
This hymn
is also found in
Christ. Biogr. in. p. 260 s. v. ' Paulus of Edessa '.
another MS, Add. 18816 (see Wright's Catalogue p. 339 sq). The former MS contains
two notes omitted in the latter, which only gives references. The first note gives the
passages of Exodus and S. Luke to which the text refers the second
;
gathers together
passages from Ignatius to the Romans., which illustrate the hymn. These passages
are printed below, III. p. 102. The notes were presumably added by Jacob of
Edessa, whose autograph this MS may perhaps be. The scribe has distinguished
carefully between the words of the author (Severus) and those which were added by
the translator for the sake of the rhythm, writing the former with black ink, the latter
with red paint. These latter are marked in the transcript here given with an upper
line. Wherever the translator deviates at all from the original, likewise for the sake
of the rhythm, a more literal rendering is inserted in smaller characters between the
lines. In the English version here given the additions of the translator are placed
between [], and the interlinear literal renderings between ().
This hymn is here printed for the first time. Assemani however {Bibl. Apost.
Vat. Catal. 11. p. 505) gives an extract containing the quotation from the epistle to
the Romans from a Vatican MS. The text was transcribed and the hymn translated
for me by Prof. W. Wright.
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Anonymous Syriac Writers [after
a.d. 500].
The Syriac quotations which follow are very miscellaneous. They occur for the
most part in volumes of extracts, chiefly Monophysite. These extracts have not
necessarily been taken in all cases directly from the authors by the compiler himself,
but are often derived at second-hand through some previous writer who quoted them.
This being so, as the works of Timotheus and Severus had been already translated
into Syriac, we may expect to find the Ignatian extracts which they give reproduced
in these later compilations. This consideration will account for the fact that, even in
the same volume, we meet with quotations which closely resemble the Syriac Version
of the Ignatian Epistles side by side with others which have much nearer affinities to
the same passages as they appear in the Syriac translations of the Greek Monophysite
fathers. The dates of these collections of extracts are uncertain. But as they belong
chiefly to the period during which the Monophysite controversy was at its height,
they may be conveniently placed here.
(i)
Demonstrationes Patrum [Anon. Syr.,].
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