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SPURIOUS AND IXTERP0U\7ED EPISTLES- w /
vi 4 (§ 2 ; comp. Ant. 2) : i Cor. viiL 6 f§ i. 2 : comp. Tars. 41 : John
L 14 (§ 3, 5 : comp. Ephes. 7. Trail. 9. Smyru 2, ^«/. 4); Pror. ix. i
(§ 3; comp. Smym. 2): Is. viL 14 (§ 3: comp. Ephes. \%,Ant. 3): Epli.
ii 2 C.§ 4; comp. Smym. 7. Philad. 6): i Cor. ii 8 T.^' 5. 9: comp. TralL
II); Eph. y. 28 (\ 13; comp. PhUad. 4. Tar^. 9, .4»/. 9); MatL ir. 23,
etc (§ 5
:
comp. Magn. 11) : Matt. xxviiL jg (> 2 : Philad. 9).
So also,
when desciibmg the attacks of Satan on the ^ints of old, he employs
the same instances fc-om
the Old Testament, describing them in Teiy
similar language {% 12 : comp. Smyrn. 7).
the Epistle to the Philippic" s— tr-:fT:ri :'---/ :''i :r e
'—
:
- '-
r.
2.
Having thus shown that aH the six Adiir! ::i^' Ltr trs — ir
' ' : : - r
izterr-olated the Seven, we are ir. 1
- - a.
time and with what purpose trii ; ;iit :
- -
-.i:c- :c e-c_rc z.^x-.. i: --:.}.:
" " -^ thirteen letters was rrcduced.
And here again the ":;rc:
r. cl-^A^ iseif into an investigation
of the errtrr : -:t— 1. f ^ir^^e respectively.
(i) The direct external evidence is not very eariy. The fist Greek
writers vrho distinctly refer to the Lccg Recension are Anastasins
of Anrioch and Stephantis Gcbarjs (see p. 204K towards the dose of
the sixth centtuy. But a long inte- ' ^ ':'- 7':^-^ -^.' ~=: t"-:= 'zZz'-
sion superseded the other, more e- .-:_:"-: ;-- --
from the earlier letters in Monci-_;
r_:; z.\zz- i;-_:.. :: : _ .. a
vitality and a prominence which barred the wav to the latz: r -tTt- ier.
On the other hand tiie indirect evidence ar :: ir i
by the ; e of
the sis Additional Epistles in the .Armema" A'ers rs a higher
antiquity than these Greek 'quotations might snggest. I have alreadv
pointed out that the histoiy of this version obliges ns to asstmae a very
considerable lapse of time after the first a-^ f " - - ace of the Greet text.
before the translation was made (p. 87 sq). .^^a. a. 1 Armenian : 'a :'.a- are
only approximately right in assigning this verfirn to the mtia atararv.
we can hardly place the date of the six Ada:: : a a' Letters, and there: are
of the L org Recension generally. ma:a ia:;: ::aa :.
-
-
i::: ::":ae -':--.
.-.: varae ara iraeaisive.
the epistles themselves contain indicatioiis which ~arr:~ the limits
more closely.
(qi The ecsIesTosfiraJ staf:jj. as it aa pears aa these letters. ~ r'a" :: a
time not earlier than the middle of the fcaaah cerrarv. while ca :'af ; t:
hand there is nothing in the notices which raa-gests a date itt" -aar
the end of the same centxiry.
A pas^ge in the Epistle to the Philalphian»; (| 4) wonld hardly
have been written before the conversion of Constantine. for it
snpposes
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