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Apocrypha of the New Testament
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Introductory Notice to Apocrypha of the New Testament.
[2530] Or, sweep off it.
[2531] Comp. Heb. xi. 38.
[2532] i.e., to sinful matter—ὕλη—the source of the σῶμα in the Gnostic doctrine.
[2533] Comp.Matt. xiii. 41.
[2534] Or, come to God.
[2535] Comp. Rev. xiv. 13.
[2536] Or, bare rule over.
[2537] Isa. xxii. 13; 1 Cor. xv. 32.
[2538] Lit., shut up.
[2541] Comp. Ps. xxiv. 3.
[2542] The hiatus is thus filled up in the Syriac: Yes, not only are their names written, but their works from day to day: the angel their minister brings tidings of their works every day from morning to morning; they are known to God by their hearts and their works. And after they are recorded, if there happen to them a matter of sin or deficiency, it is purified by chastisement according to their sin, that there be not unto them any defect in their strivings.
[2543] Rev. xi. 3-12. Enoch and Elijah were supposed to be the two witnesses there mentioned.
[2544] Or, above.
[2546] Or, the good things.
[2547] Syr., This is the place of the prophets. A very slight change in the Greek text would give this reading.
[2548] Comp.1 Tim. iii. 1-4.
[2549] The Syriac has: Those who do not confess Jesus Christ, nor His resurrection, nor His humanity, but consider Him as all mortal, and who say that the sacrament of the body of our Lord is bread.
The word θεοτόκος in the text was the occasion of the three years’ struggle between Nestorius and Cyril of Alexandria, which ended by the condemnation of the former by the Council of Ephesus, a.d. 431.
The view of the Eucharist in the text is not inconsistent with an early date, though it must be remembered that the idea of a substantial presence became the orthodox doctrine only after the Second Council of Nicæa in a.d. 787.
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