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Introductory Note to Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria.
[747] ἀπονηστίζεσθαι δεῖ. Gentianus Hervetus renders this by jejunandus sit dies Paschæ; and thus he translates the word by jejunare, “to fast,” wherever it occurs, whereas it rather means always, jejunium solvere, “to have done fasting.” In this sense the word is used in the Apostolic Constitutions repeatedly: see book v. chap. 12, 18, etc. It occurs in the same sense in the 89th Canon of the Concilium Trullanum. The usage must evidently be the same here: so that it does not mean, What is the proper hour for fasting on the day of Pentecost? but, What is the hour at which the ante-paschal fast ought to be terminated—whether on the evening preceding the paschal festival itself, or at cockcrowing, or at another time?—Gall. See also the very full article in Suicer, s.v.
[748] I give the beginning of this epistle of Dionysius of Alexandria also as it is found in not a few manuscripts, viz., ἐπέστειλάς μοι…τῇ τοῦ πάσχα περιλύσει,—the common reading being, τὴν τοῦ πάσχα ἡμέραν. And the περίλυσις τοῦ πάσχα denotes the close of the paschal fast, as Eusebius (Hist. Eccles. v. 23) uses the phrase τὰς τῶν ἀσιτιῶν ἐπιλύσεις,—the verbs περιλύειν, ἀπολύειν, ἐπιλύειν, καταλύειν, being often used in this sense.—Cotelerius on the Apostolic Constitutions, v. 15.
[749] ἀφ᾽ ἑσπέρας.
[750] [Note this and the Nicene decision which made the Alexandrian bishop the authority concerning the paschal annually, vol. ii. Elucidation II. p. 343.]
[751] πάνυ μεμετρημένην.
[752] κατὰ καιροὺς ἐνηλλαγμένους.
[755] τῇ ἐπιφωσκούσῃ μιᾷ Σαββάτων.
[756] τῆ ἐπιφωσκούσῃ εἰς μίαν Σαββάτων.
[758] κοινότητα.
[759] νύκτα βαθείαν.
[760] ὀψέ, late.
[762] παρὰ τοῦτο…προεληλύθει.
[763] Luke xxiii. 56; xxiv. 1-2.
[764] ὄρθρου βαθέος.
[765] προϋποφαινομένην αὐτὴν ἐωθινὴν ἐμφανίζει.
[767] πρὸ νυκτὸς ἔγγυς ἤδη μεσούσης ἀνιέντας.
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