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Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents
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[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.
[2954] The Greek ἐπίτροπος is used.—Tr.
VII. From the homily composed by the holy Mar Jacob, the teacher, on the fall of idols.
[2955] From Cod. Add. 14,624, apparently written in the ninth century.
VIII. From the homily about the town of Antioch.
[2956] From Cod. Add. 14,590, of the eighth or ninth century.
[2957] [A note of the Middle Age. The reverse is taught in the Scriptures, but even Hebrew Christians slurred the name of Paul.]
[2958] This is probably the correct reading: the printed text means “among the Assyrians.”—Tr.
[2959] Lit. “set their faces.”—Tr.
The Teaching of Addæus the Apostle.
[2960] This fragment, extending to the lacuna on p. 658, is contained in the ms. No. 14,654, at fol. 33. It consists of one leaf only, and is part of a volume of fragments, of which the age is certainly not later than the beginning of the fifth century.
[2961] See note 1 on p. 653.—Tr.
[2962] Moses Chor says that he had been suffering seven years from a disease caught in Persia.
[2963] “The certitude.”—C. [See p. 653, supra, note 6.]
[2965] The vowels supplied in this word are conjectural, as is the case with most of the proper names in these Documents. Perhaps the name of this person is to be read Shalamtho, as there is a Σαλαμψιώ, the wife of Phasaëlus, mentioned in Jos., Antiq., b. xviii. c. v.
[2966] Who this was, does not appear. He may have been some connection of Meherdates king of the Parthians, of whom Tacitus, Ann., xii. 12, speaks as having been entertained at Edessa by Abgar.
[2967] According to Moses Chor. b. ii. ch. xxxv., the first, or chief, wife of Abgar was Helena.
[2968] Probably one of the second rank. Tacitus, Ann., vi. 31, 32, mentions a man named Abdus, perhaps the same as this one, as possessing great authority in the Parthian kingdom. [Note 2, p. 653, supra]
[2969] Or “times.”—Tr.
[2970] The remainder of “The Teaching of Addæus” is taken from another ms. of the Nitrian collection in the Brit. Mus., Cod. Add. 14,644. It is one of those which were procured in the year of the Greeks 1243 (a.d. 931) by the abbot Moses during his visit to Bagdad. It appears to be of the sixth century.
[2971] Both “for” and “willing” are conjectural, the ms. being damaged.—Wright.
[2972] Both “for” and “willing” are conjectural, the ms. being damaged.—Wright.
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