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Book 6 Minor Writers
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Translator’s Biographical Notice.
[1325] Eusebius, after quoting these passages, adds:—“These are the words of a true philosopher, and one who was no less a lover of God than of wisdom, which, before the final sentence of his judge, and while he lay yet in prison, he addressed to the brethren in his church, at once to represent to them in what condition he was himself, and to exhort them to maintain steadfastly, even after his speedy death, their piety towards Christ.”—Tr.
The Beginning of the Epistle of the Bishops.
[1326] This epistle was first edited by Scipio Maffeius from an ancient Verona manuscript in the Osserv. Letter, vol. iii. pp. 11–17, where is given the Fragment of a History of the Meletian Schism. See Neander’s important remarks on this whole document, Church History, iii. p. 310 (Bohn).—Tr.
[1327] Zelo meliorum.
[1328] [Parishes = dioceses (so called now); but they were very small territorially, and every city had its “bishop.” See Bingham, book ix. cap. 2, and Euseb., book v. cap. 23. Comp. note 1, p. 106, supra.]
[1329] Bene nimis magna.
[1330] [The bishops of Alexandria are called popes to this day, and were so from the beginning. See vol. v. p. 154.]
[1331] [Peter succeeded Theonas as sixteenth bishop and primate of Alexandria. See vol. iv. p. 384; also Neale, Pat of Alex., i. p. 90.]
[1332] Oportuerat ex populo properare ac nos exigere pro merito.
[1333] Sub arguente.
[1334] The manuscript reads chrismata, for which schismata is proposed.
[1335] Provisoris—perhaps rather, The Provider—the saint who with careful forethought has mapped out our proper course in such matters.
[1337] Erga illum providentiam.
[1338] The manuscript gives ordinando adnuntias, for which is proposed ordinandi. Adnuntiamus.
[1339] Reading studeas for studetur.
The Conclusion of the Epistle of the Bishops.
[1340] Cupiditatem.
[1341] Ut cogniscatur concupiscentia Meletii.
[1342] The text is—Commendans ei occasionem Meletius, separavit eos, &c.; on which see especially Neander, iii. p. 311 (Bohn).
[1343] This epistle is given elsewhere. [This volume, infra.]
Translator’s Biographical Notice.
[1344] [Another glorious product of the school of Alexandria.]
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