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Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents
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[3187] So Cureton. Dr. Payne Smith remarks: “Cureton’s ‘chest’ is a guess from ***. The only sense of *** with which I am acquainted is cadus, a cask.” The word occurs again in the Martyrdom of Habib. In both places it seems to refer to some contrivance for holding fast the person to be scourged. The root appears to be ***, custodivit, retinuit (Castel).—Tr.
[3188] The martyr Minias, about a.d. 240, had the same torture inflicted on him: “ligneis verubus præcutis sub ungues ejus infixis, omnes digitos ejus præcepit pertundi.” See Surius, Sanctt. Vit.
Not “the same,” perhaps.—Tr.
[3189] Or “bitterly.”—Tr.
[3190] Here a few lines have been torn out of A., and are supplied from B.
[3191] “Which” is not in the printed text.—Tr.
[3192] The word used looks like a corruption of the Latin craticula. Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. v. 1, uses the Gk. word for this (τήγανον) in describing the martyrdom of Attalus, who “was set in the τήγανον, and scorched all over, till the savour of his burnt flesh ascended from his body.”
[3193] [St. Paul’s Stigmata. Gal. vi. 17; Phil. iii. 11.]
[3194] Or “bitter.”—Tr.
[3195] Or “beam.”—Tr.
[3197] Lit. “of confessorship.”—Tr.
[3198] Lit. “of confessorship.”—Tr.
[3199] The Latin “velum,” or rather its plur. “vela.”
[3200] The Gk. ἀπόφασις.
[3201] This expression χαλινὸν ἐμβαλεῖν is used similarly in the life of Euthymus in Eccl. Græc. Monumenta, vol. ii. p. 240.
[3202] See Teaching of the Apostles, Ord. 1, p. 668, note 1.—Tr.
[3203] Lit. “have pity on my salvation.”—Tr.
[3204] By a transposition of letters, B. reads “laics.”
[3205] B. has several lines here in addition.
[3206] The passage hence to the end is evidently a later addition by a person unacquainted with chronology: for it is stated at the beginning of these Acts that the transactions took place in the fifteenth year of Trajan, a.d. 112; but Fabianus (see next note) was not made bishop of Rome till the reign of Maximinus Thrax, about the year 236. [An index of the history of this postscript.]
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