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480 EPISTLE OF S. POLYCARP.
TertuUian of which Eusebius gives a translation. Take these extracts for instance
from Apol. 2 quoted in Euseb. H. E. iii, 33, and from Apol. 5 quoted in Euseb. H. E.
ii. 2, 25;
Tertullian
Eusebius
Adlegans praeter obstinationem non \iyii3v fw rod /xt) ^offKeadai airoiis
sacrificandi nihil aliud se de sacramentis elSwXoXaTpeTv
ovoev avdaiov cv avroh eveorum
comperisse.
p-qnivai.
Facit et hoc ad causam nostram, quod koI tovto virkp toO i)ixCiv \byov irtiroi-qapud
vos de humano arbitratu divinitas rai., otl nap' v/juv avOpuirdtf doKipLTJ ij
pensitatur. OeoT-qs SiSorat.
Tiberius ergo, cujus tempore nomen Ti^ipcos odv 60' ov to Xpia-TiavQv 6vop.a
Christianum in saeculum introivit, adnun- ei's rbv Koap-ov eicreX'^Xvdev, ayyeXd^i/Tos
tiata sibi ex Syria Palestina, quae illic aiVc^ tou 56yp.aros tovtov iv6a wpwrov
veritatem ipsius
divinitatis revelaverant, ijp^aTO, rrj avyKXr/Tq] dveKOLvwaaTo, d^Xos
detulit ad senatum cum praerogativa suf- ui' e/cetVots dis ry doypLan dpeaKerai.
fragii sui.
Consulite commentaries vestros ; illic evrvxere roh inropv^pacnv vp.Cov. eKei
reperietis primum Neronem in hanc fvprjaere irpCorov "Nepuva tovto rb Soypa,
sectam cum maxime Romae orientem 7]uiko. p^dXiara iv "Pu}/j.ij tt}v dfaToXi^v ird-
Caesariano gladio ferocisse. Sed tali aav vword^as wpbs tjv ds Trdvras, did^^avTa.
dedicatore damnationis nostrae etiam toiout^ ttjs KoXdaecos r)p.Qiv apx^ty^ Kanxdigloriamur.
fieda.
In this last extract the translator, ignorant of the Latin idiom cum maxime
'
of the sense.
orientem', 'at the moment of its rising', has made shipwreck
On the whole I am disposed to think that Kimmel is right, and that we have here
tlie original rescript.
It is not very easy to conceive Rufinus producing from the
spiritless translation supplied by Eusebius a document which savours so strongly of
the imperial edict of Hadrian's age. In this case, the corruption Serenius for Licinius
or Silvanus must have been found in the text of Justin by Rufinus, as it had been
found previously by Eusebius. The corruption is the more explicable where a Greek
copyist, transcribing a Greek MS, suddenly found himself confronted with a Latin
document which he only imperfectly understood. Where the present text has &v-
BpuTToi corresponding to the Latin 'innoxii', Eusebius must surely have written dOccoi,
though the reading dvOpoiirot, is as early as the Syriac Version.
(/3) Letter to Servianus.
Hadrianus Augustus Serviano Consuli salutem.
Aegyptum quam mihi laudabas, Serviane carissime, totam didici levem
pendulam et ad omnia famae momenta volitantem. Illic qui Serapem
colunt Christiani sunt, et devoti sunt Serapi qui Christi se episcopos
dicunt. Nemo illic
archisynagogus Judaeorum, nemo Samarites, nemo
Christianorum presbyter, non mathematicus, non haruspex, non aliptes.
Ipse ille patriarcha, cum Aeg3'ptum venerit, ab aliis
Serapidem adorare,
ab aliis cogitur Christum .. .Unus illis deus nummus est. Hunc Christiani,
hunc Judaei, hunc omnes venerantur et gentes...Denique ut primum