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Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents
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[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.
[2905] Properly Urrhoi, or Orrhoi (***). It seems probable that the word is connected with Osrhoene, the name of the province in which Edessa held an important place, the correct form of which is supposed to be Orrhoene. The name Edessa (***) occurs only once in these Documents, viz., in the “Acts of Sharbil,” sub init.—Tr.
[2906] “By this title all the toparchs of Edessa were called, just as the Roman emperors were called Cæsars, the kings of Egypt Pharaohs or Ptolemies, the kings of Syria Antiochi.” Assem., Bibl. Or., vol. i. p. 261. Assemani adds: “Abgar in Syriac means lame.” Moses of Chorene, however, with more probability, derives it from the Armenian Avag-aïr, “grand homme, à cause de sa grande mansuétude et de sa sagesse, et de plus, à cause de sa taille.” See below the extract from his History of Armenia, book ii. ch. 26.
[2907] Eusebius has δι᾽ ἐπιστοληφόρου.
See note on ταχυδρόμου, on next page.—Tr.
[2908] Lit. “deemed him worthy of.”—Tr.
[2909] Gr. σωτηρίαν: and so the Syriac word, meaning “life,” is generally to be translated in this collection.—Tr.
[2910] Syr. “near to him;” Gr. τῶν προσηκόντων.
[2911] His real name was Judas Thomas: see p. 8.
[2912] The name is taken from Eusebius, but in the original Syriac treatises, which follow, he is called Addæus.
[2913] In The Teaching of the Apostles he is said to have been one of the “seventy two apostles.” His name, like that of Thomas, seems to have been the very common one, Judas.
[2914] These were kept in the archives of the kingdom, which were transferred by Abgar from Nisibis to Edessa when he made it the capital of his dominions. See Moses Chor. B. ii. ch. 27, infra. The archives appear to have been still kept at Edessa in a.d. 550. [Compare this fact with Tertullian’s statement, vol. iii. p. 164.]
[2915] The kingdom of Edessa was brought to an end and entirely subjected to the Romans in a.d. 217 or 218.
[2916] The extract from the archives was probably made by Sextus Julius Africanus, and copied by Eusebius from his Chronographia.
[2917] Gr. τόπαρχος.
[2918] Called Hanan in the original Syriac document; and so in Moses Chor.; Eusebius has ᾽Ανανίας, which is copied here.
[2919] Gr. ταχυδρόμου. But the post held by Hananias must have been one of more dignity than that of a courier. He was probably a Secretary of State. In The Acts of Addæus (infra) he is called, in connection with the name Tabularius, a sharir, or confidential servant.
It would seem that Tabularius has been confounded with Tabellarius, a letter-carrier.—Tr.
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