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Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents
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[3351] New-York Independent, June 24, 1886.
[3352] That is, in vol. xxii. of the Edinburgh edition.
[3353] Vol. xxiv., ed. Edinburgh. The latter was formerly ascribed to Justin Martyr.
[3354] The Ambrose and the Serapion.
Bardesan. The Book of the Laws of Divers Countries.
[3355] Lit. “Son of Daisan,” from a river so called near Edessa.—Hahn. [Elucidation I. “The Laws of Countries” is the title. For “Various Countries” I have used “Divers.”]
[3356] Called by Eusebius, Hist. Eccl., iv. 30, The Discourse on Fate (῾Ο περὶ εἱμαρμένης διάλογος). This is more correct than the title above given: the “Laws” are adduced only as illustrations of the argument of the piece. The subject would, however, be more properly given as “The Freedom of the Will.”
[3357] Lit. “going in.” Cureton renders, “we went up.”
[3358] Lit. “felt him.”
[3359] Lit. “before him.” Merx: “ehe er kam.”
[3360] The word used is formed from the Greek εὐσχημόνως. [Here observe what is said (in Elucidation I.) by Nöldke on the Hellenization theory of Mommsen, with reference to this very work; p. 742, infra.]
[3361] Lit. “hast anything in thy mind.”
[3362] Lit. “there are for thee other things also.”
[3363] *** is here substituted for the *** of the text, which yields no sense.
[3364] Lit. “the wisdom of the truth.”
[3365] Lit. “are not able to stand.”
[3366] Or, “in the hand of the operator;” but it is better to employ two words.
[3367] Or, “and the sphere.”
[3368] The word ***, here used, occurs subsequently as a designation of the Gnostic Æons. Here, as Merx observes, it can hardly go beyond its original meaning of ens, entia, Wesen, that which is. It evidently refers, however, in this passage to a system of things, a world.
[3369] Lit. “required.” [It is a phenomenon to find this early specimen of “anthropology” emanating from the far East, and anticipating the Augustinian controversies on “fixed fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute.” Yet the West did not originate the discussion. See vol. iv. p. 320. See the ethical or metaphysical side of free-will discussed in Eaton’s Bampton Lectures for 1872, p. 79, ed. Pott, Young, & Co., New York, 1873. On St. Augustine, see Wordsworth’s valuable remarks in his Bampton Lectures for 1881.]
[3370] Gen. i. 27. The Hebrew itself, בצלס אלהיס is given in Syriac characters, without translation.
[3371] Cureton renders, “for which he is created.” Merx has, “das ihn gemacht hat.”
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