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Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents
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[3267] The Gk. κοιμητήριον.—Tr.
[3268] Cureton’s “for” seems not so good, the reference not being to a single tomb.—Tr.
[3269] Probably that in which Sharbil and Babai were buried: see p. 684, above.
[3270] Lit. “secular persons,” or “men of the world.”—Tr.
[3271] In Simeon Metaphrastes, whose copy would seem to have had a slightly different reading, it is written Bethelabicla, and is said to lie on the north side of the city.
[3272] i.e., the sixth day of the week. See note 9 on p. 668.—Tr.
[3273] As Simeon Metaphrastes, infra, evidently made use of these Acts of Habib in his account of that martyr, it is probable that his narrative of the martyrdom of Guria and Shamuna also was founded on the copy of their Acts to which Theophilus here refers.
Martyrdom of the Holy Confessors Shamuna, Guria, and Habib, from Simeon Metaphrastes.
[3274] Cureton gives it in Latin.—Tr.
[3275] This piece is taken from the well-known work of Surius, De probatis Sanctorum vitis. It does not appear who made this Latin translation.
Metaphrastes is a celebrated Byzantine writer, who lived in the ninth and tenth centuries. He derives his name from having written paraphrases, or metaphrases, of the lives of the saints. Fabricius gives a list of 539 lives commonly attributed to him.—Dr. W. Plate, in Smith’s Dict. Biog. and Myth.—Tr.
[3276] [A token of mediæval origin.]
[3277] Ps. cxlvi. 3.—Tr.
[3278] Dux.
[3279] Matt. x. 33.—Tr.
[3280] 2 Cor. iv. 16.—Tr.
[3281] Or “through his disobedience in the matter of the tree,” if per ligni inobedientiam are the real words of the Latin translator, who is not, generally speaking, to be complimented for elegance or even correctness, but seems to have made a servile copy of the mere words of the Greek.—Tr.
[3282] Matt. x. 28.—Tr.
[3283] 2 Cor. v. 1.—Tr.
[3284] Lit. “with one foot.”—Tr.
[3285] i.e., the anniversary.—Tr.
[3286] In the Syriac account “Telzeha:” see p. 690, supra.—Tr.
[3287] Compare the “combs” of the Syriac, p. 684, supra.—Tr.
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