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Dionysius
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Introductory Note to Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria.
[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.
[768] ὡς παρ᾽ ὀλίγον προκαταλύοντας τὸν δρὸμον.
[769] [1 Tim. iv. 8. Mark the moderation of our author in contrast with superstition. But in our days the peril is one of an opposite kind. Contrast St. Paul, 2 Cor. xi. 27.]
[770] That is, as Balsamon explains, the six days of the week of our Lord’s passion.
[771] To these canons are appended the comments of Balsamon and Zonaras, which it is not necessary to give here.
[772] Matt. ix. 20; Luke viii. 43.
[773] Referring to the relations of marriage, dealt with in 1 Cor. vii. 5, etc.
[774] διακρίνονται.
[775] Rom. xiv. 23. [Gr. κατακέκριται = is condemned = self-condemned. Wordsworth cites Cicero, De Officiis, i. 30.]
[776] [The entire absence of despotic authority in these episcopal teachings is to be noted. 2 Cor. i. 24.]
Epistle I.—To Domitius and Didymus.
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