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QUOTATIONS AND REFERENCES. 231
fire,
and that John on whom he conferred the priesthood
of the bishopric after him.'
and the seat
(2)
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The child whom our Lord called and set up and said, Unless
yc be converted, and become like a child, ye shall not enter the kingdom of
heaven, was Ignatius, the same that was patriarch of Antioch. And he
saw the angels ministering in two bands, and instituted that they should
minister in the church in the same manner : and after a time this institution
was abolished : and when Diodorus went with his father in the
embassy to the country of Persia, and saw them ministering in two
bands, he came to his own country Antioch, and renewed the practice
of ministering in two bands.'
For this Syrian writer see Assemani Bibl. Orient. III. p. 309. This book called
'the Bee' is preserved in a Vatican MS (see Assem. Bibl. 07-ient. i. p. 576) and in
Brit. Mus. Add. 25875 (see Wright's Catalogue p. 1067). From this latter Cureton
published and translated the extracts which are here given (C. I. p. 220 sq, p. 251 sq).
The latter of the two passages is also quoted by Assemani [Bibl. Orient. III. p. 321).
The whole work has been translated into Latin by Schonfelder (Bamberg, 1866).
For the introduction of antiphonal singing, and for the reference to Diodorus, see
above, p. 31.
60.
Gregory Barhebraeus [c.
a.d. 1285].
Chronicon Ecclesiasticum (ed. Abbeloos et Lamy).
(i)
Antioch and sent to Rome. And on the journey he confirmed all the
I. p. 42. 'After Euodius Ignatius Nurono. He was bound at
faithful that came in his way ;
and he said / am the wheat of God who
am ready to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts that I may be pure bread
on the heavenly table. And he saw angels singing in two bands and he
taught the Church to do so. And when he arrived in Rome, Trajan
commanded that he should be cast to wild beasts; and he was devoured
as he had before prophesied.'
After Ignatius Nurono Eron in the time of Plinius Secundus. He
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condemned many Christians to death and deposed them from their
rank, etc' (comp.
(2)
II. p. 34.
Euseb. H. E. iii. t^i).
'
And he [Simeon Barsaboe] ordered that they should sing in two
bands in the Churches of the East, just as in the west it had been
ordered from the time of Ignatius Nurono the disciple of John the
Evangelist the son of Zebedee.'