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2 20 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
AepecBAl KAI NIKAN" MAAICTA Ae eNGKCN OeOY HANTA HMAC
ynoMeNeiN Aei, Fna kai ay'toc hmac yTTOMeiNH {Polyc. 3).
'Ek T179 avri^s.
MAKpo9YMeT€ M6T* aAAhAcon gn npAYTHTi,
HMOON AiA nANTOc {Polyc. 6).
(1)0 6 Oeoc /we9'
(9) ^. xix. MS fol. 275 b. Tov dyiov ^lyvariov e/c T17S Trpos
TTANTec OMOHGeiAN GeoY AABoNxec aAAhAoyc eNrpenecBe,
KAI MHAeiC KATA CApKA BAeneTOi TON nAHCION AAA' eN XpiCTO)
aAAhAoyc Aia nANToc AfAnAie {Magn. 6).
(10) X- xxi. p. 789, Tov dyCov ^lyuariov
eK Trjs irpos May-
PTjaCovs iTnaToXrjsripenoN
ecTi monon Mt-i akoyein xpicTiANofc,
NAi {Magn. 4).
aAAa kai ei-
X- xxi. MS fol. 278. Tou avTOV iK Trjs tt/oos HoXvKapTTOu.
XpicTiANOC eAYTOY eSoYciAN OYK e'xei
aAAa tco Oeco cxo-
AAzei (Folyc. 7).
The chronology of the life of S. John Damascene is very
uncertain. The two
definite facts are that he was living A.D. 730 and that he died before A.D. 754 (see
Langen Johannes v. Damaskus p, 21).
The Parallela Sacra, which bear his name, appear in forms more or less different
In different MSS. Two very distinct forms were published by Lequien, designated
here Parallela Vatieana and Parallela Rupefiicaldina respectively. The former might
well have been compiled by John of Damascus, though some critics assign it
to a later
date. The latter appears to have been the work of a person who lived a century
earlier than S. John Damascene. It seems to have been made after the capture of
Jerusalem by Chosroes (a.d. 614) but during the reign of Heraclius (fA.D. 641); see
Lequien Joann. Damasc. Op. 11. p. 274 sq (comp. I. p. xi), Langen I.e. p. 204 sq. An
investigation of the work of Leontius and John {Sacr. Per. Libr.), from which Mai
(Script. Vet. Nov. Coll. vii) has published extracts, will probably throw some light
on these collections ascribed to John of Damascus. The subject has been taken up
by Loofs (see above, p. 205) since my first edition appeared, and we may hope that
his further labours will solve many questions connected with it. See also Rendel
Harris Fragments of Philo p. x sq.
(A) The Parallela Vatieana, as the name denotes, M'ere printed by Lequien from
a Vatican MS. A collection very similar to this was found by Prof. J. Rendel Harris
in a Paris MS Reg. 923 (see Ignatiana p. 94 sq, in the Journal of the Society of Biblical
Literature and Exegesis, Dec. 1886). Of this MS he has given a full description in his
Fragments of Philo p. vii sq (Cambridge, 1886). 'The character,' he writes (p. xiv),