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Introductory Note to the Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus
[277] Comp. Gal. iv. 10.
[278] This seems to refer to the practice of Jews in fixing the beginning of the day, and consequently of the Sabbath, from the rising of the stars. They used to say, that when three stars of moderate magnitude appeared, it was night; when two, it was twilight; and when only one, that day had not yet departed. It thus came to pass (according to their night-day (νυχθήμερον) reckoning), that whosoever engaged in work on the evening of Friday, the beginning of the Sabbath, after three stars of moderate size were visible, was held to have sinned, and had to present a trespass-offering; and so on, according to the fanciful rule described.
[279] Otto supplies the lacuna which here occurs in the mss. so as to read καταδιαιρεῖν.
[280] The great festivals of the Jews are here referred to on the one hand, and the day of atonement on the other.
Chapter V.—The manners of the Christians.
[281] Literally, “paradoxical.”
[282] Literally, “cast away fœtuses.”
[283] Otto omits “bed,” which is an emendation, and gives the second “common” the sense of unclean.
[284] Comp.2 Cor. x. 3.
[285] Comp. Phil. iii. 20.
[286] Comp. 2 Cor. vi. 9.
[287] Comp. 2 Cor. vi. 10.
[288] Comp.2 Cor. iv. 12.
Chapter VI.—The relation of Christians to the world.
[290] Comp. 1 Pet. ii. 11.
[291] Literally, “keeps together.”
[292] Literally, “keeps together.”
[293] Literally, “incorruption.”
[294] Or, “though punished, increase in number daily.”
Chapter VII.—The manifestation of Christ.
[295] Literally, “mysteries.”
[296] Literally, “elements.”
[297] The word “sun,” though omitted in the mss., should manifestly be inserted.
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