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Book 6 Minor Writers
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Translator’s Biographical Notice.
[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.]
[1345] Απολ. χοντρ. Ρυφ., βοοκ ι. νυμ. 9, Ωορκσ, ιι. π. 465.
[1346] Proprii operis nihil omnino scripsit, exceptis epistolis quas ad amicos forte mittebat; in tantum se humiltate dejecerat.
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