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Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents
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[2888] Had the early Christians used icons,—i.e., pictures in their churches,—the churches themselves would everywhere have been visible proof against the Council of Frankfort and all who condemned icons. Sculptured images are not icons, technically.
[2889] Abridged.
[2890] Jacobite primate, died 1286.
[2891] Bishop of Rome a.d. 492–496.
[2892] Wake, Apostolic Fathers, p. 4.
[2893] Vol. ii. pp. 1–31.
[2894] Credib., vi. 605.
[2895] Cap. iv. 24.
[2896] P. xxiii.
[2897] Hist. of the Church, vol. i. p. 109 (Foreign Theol. Lib.).
[2898] Bayer, Historia Edessena e nummis illustrata, l. iii. p. 173.
[2899] Humphreys’ Coin-Collector’s Manual, p. 364.
[2900] It should have been 115.
[2901] Now Dean of Canterbury.
[2902] The translator takes the opportunity of correcting the error by which the preparation of Tatian’s work in vol. iii. of the Edinburgh Series was ascribed to him. The credit of it is due in the first instance to his lamented friend Mr. J. E. Ryland, at whose request, and subsequently by that of the editors, he undertook to correct the manuscript, but was soon obliged by other engagements to relinquish the task. [The correction was duly made in this series. See vol. ii. pp. 59, 61.]
[2903] By Eusebius of Cæsarea.—Tr. The ms. from which this extract from Eusebius is taken is numbered 14,639, fol. 15 b. It is described in Cureton’s Corpus Ignatianum, p. 350.
The Story Concerning the King of Edessa.
[2904] Book I. chapter the thirteenth.—Tr.
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