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550 EPISTLE OF S. POLYCARP.
where the writer, explaining the plural of Gen. i.
26 'Let us make', says
ravra Trpos rov vlov, the transcriber adds koI Trpos to irvevfjia TO aytor.
Pleziotes represents his ms as giving the words at the end of Polyc.
§ 9 Koi 8l qixa^ viro tov ®eov dvaa-Tavra. This is probably an error,
as all the other mss omit the last three words and plunge into the
Epistle of Barnabas in the middle of the sentence. If the statement
be correct, the scribe of this or of some ancestral MS must have obtained
the missing words from Eusebius.
(ii)
Latin Version.
In the Latin mss the Epistle of Polycarp appears in
proximity with
the spurious and interpolated letters of Ignatius and other Ignatian
matter such as the Acts of Martyrdom, the Laus Heronis, and the
Correspondence with the Virgin. A description of thirteen such mss is
given above, p. 126 sq. In twelve out of the thirteen the Epistle of
Polycarp comes after the Ignatian letters, and generally with some
intervening matter. The thirteenth, Vindobotunsis 1068 (p. 130), in
which it
precedes these letters, belongs to a comparatively late date and
has no claims to be regarded as giving the earlier order. There is no
reason to suppose that the Latin mss represent one Greek original
containing the whole of the Ignatian and Polycarpian matter. If the
translation were made from a single Greek original, it must have been a
comparatively late MS. This is evident from the fact that the Acts of
Martyrdom here presented are a conflate work, made up of the Roman
and Antiochene Acts of Ignatius combined (see 11.
pp. 366, 371). It
is not even certain that the version of Polycarp's Epistle was made by
the same hand which translated the Ignatian letters ;
and the two may
have been combined after each separately had assumed its Latin dress.
The vocabulary perhaps suggests different hands, though
its evidence is
far from decisive. Thus 6vcnaaT-^piov in Polyc. F/iiV. 4 is rendered
sacniriuin ; but the word commonly used in the Ignatian Epistles, where
it occurs, is altare {Ephes. 5, Trail. 7, Magn. 7,
Rom. 2)', though in the
first two passages sacrarium would be the more appropriate word, the
expression being evros \tov\ Ova-iaaTrjpiov. On the other hand in Tars.
9 xVP'^'* '^^ Ova-iaa-Tijpiov @€ov, which is the closest parallel to the passage
in Polycarp, it is rendered sacrarium. But the expression in this connexion
may have become common, before this translation was made.
Again in Polyc. T/iil. 8 dStaActTTTws is translated indeficienter^ and in
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In PkilaJ. 4 the clause containing Ov(ri.a