Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents

Footnotes

^[2933] So Euseb. The orig. Syr. has “His sender.”

^[2934] The orig. Syr. has “the certitude of His preaching.” The error seems to have arisen from the Greek translator confounding *** with ***.

More probably with ***, “newness (of his preaching),” which was freely translated by him (περὶ) τῆς καινῆς αὐτοῦ κηρύξεως; and this, again, was by the Syrian re-translator rendered literally, as in the text.

The word certitude (above) may be rendered unerring truth. —Tr.

^[2935] Or “Sheol,” as in Hebrew. The orig. Syr. gives “the place of the dead.”

^[2936] Eph. ii. 14.

^[2937] Comp.Matt. xxvii. 52.

^[2938] Valesius says that the Edessenes commenced their era with the 117th Olympiad, the first year of the reign of Seleucus. The year 340 corresponds, therefore, with the fifteenth year of Tiberius.

It should be the beginning of the 117th Olympiad.—Tr.

A Canticle of Mar Jacob the Teacher on Edessa.

^[2939] Or, “My Lord,” or “Mr.”—Tr.

^[2940] This is taken from Cod. Add. 17, 158, fol. 56, where is added: “when she sent to our Lord to come to her.”

^[2941] [Luke xv. 6.]

^[2942] See note on p. 652.

^[2943] [This ancient imitation of the Canticles shows how that book was understood, as of Christ and His Church.]

I. Of the blessed Addæus the apostle. From his teaching which he gave in Edessa before Abgar the King and the assembly of the city.

^[2944] Taken from Cod. Add. 14,535, fol. i.

II. From the teaching of Addæus the apostle, which was spoken in the city of Edessa.

^[2945] From Cod. Add. 12,155, fol. 53 vers.

III. From the epistle of Addæus the apostle, which he spake in the city of Edessa.

^[2946] From Cod. Add. 17,193, fol. 36. See Teaching of Addæus, p. 657, infra.

^[2947] Or “of the doctrines.”—Tr.

IV.

^[2948] Extracts iv. and v. are from Cod. Add. 14,601, fol. 164, written apparently in the eighth century.

^[2949] i.e., Paneas.—Tr.

^[2950] Extracts iv. and v. are from Cod. Add. 14,601, fol. 164, written apparently in the eighth century.

VI. From the departure of Marath Mary from the world, and the birth and childhood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Book the Second.

^[2951] From Cod. Add. 16,484, fol. 19. It consists of an apocryphal work on the Virgin, of the fifth or sixth century.

^[2952] i.e., “My Lady” or “Madam” (= mea domina): it is the feminine form of “Mar.”—Tr.

^[2953] Beginning with the new moon of October. The former Tishrin was the month immediately preceding.—Tr.

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