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Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents
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[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.”
[3372] The Greek στοιχεῖα.
[3373] ***, that which exists, especially that which has an independent existence, is used here of the Gnostic Æons. They were so called in respect of their pre-existence, their existence independent of time or creation. When they came to be “created,” or more properly “fashioned,” they were called “emanations.”
[3374] Lit. “of their nature.”
[3375] Lit. “the strength of their exactness,” i.e., their exact (or complete) strength. Cureton has, “their force of energy.”
[3376] “being lessened,” or “lowered.”
[3377] Lit. “do not take place by.”
[3378] Cureton renders, “have the use of his hands:” Merx gives “etwas erwirbt.”
[3379] Or “towns.”
[3380] Lit. “without ill-will.”
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