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QUOTATIONS AND REFERENCES. 229
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The fourth chapter of the book. The teachings
of the ancient
Fathers regarding the Headship before the breaking up of the faith,
and a Httle of what happened after the (said) breaking up. Ignatius,
patriarch of Antioch, the third after Peter (the Apostle), has said in his
And ye too, be ye perfect in our Lord
Epistle to the people of Smyrna
:
Jesus Christ, zoho is of the seed of David {the prophet) according to the
body, {and) the Son of God {in 7'eality) ; He was born of the Virgin Mary,
and was baptized by John, and ivas crucified for our sake in the time of
Pontius Pilate {Sinyrn. i).
And he has said in his Epistle to Antioch :
Whosoever acknowledges now the Christ, and does not confess that He is
the Son of God, the Creator of the world, and says that here there is
another son {besides Hun), and turns away from what the prophets have
prophesied a7id the disciples have announced, he is a temple unto Sata7i
{Ant. 5).
The words omitted in B are placed within brackets ( ).
The MS Arahe Siippl. 79,
fol. 45 sq, has substantially the same text, but with the
addition of these words after "Ignatius, patriarch of Antioch":
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And this Ignatius it was on whose head the Lord placed His hand,
and said to His disciples
: Whosoever 7aishes to become great, he must
become like this child. And he was at this time a child, and he became
patriarch of Antioch, the third etc.
Severus ibn al-Mukaffa was bishop of Ashmunin, or Hermopolis Magna, in
the Thebaid. His best known work is a history of the Patriarchate of Alexandria,
to which Renaudot was chiefly indebted in his Hist. Patriarch. Alexandr. Jacobit.
(Paris 1 713). The following facts fixing the date of Severus have been supplied to
me by Dr Rieu from a British Museum MS of his history, Add. 26101. (i) Speaking
of a chapel of S. Mark built by the patriarch Sanutius i, who was ordained a.d.
859, he says that it had now been standing 115 years (fol. 32 b; comp. Renaudot
P- 323)- This therefore could not have been written before a.d. 974. (2) It is stated
(fol. 43 b; comp. Renaudot p. 367) that Severus was bishop of Ashmunin under