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Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents
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[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.”
[3381] Lit. “every man in whom there is a soul.”
[3382] Lit. “can do rejoicing.”
[3383] The Greek ζιζάνια.
[3384] Lit. “a mind the son of the free.”
[3385] Lit. “is the man’s own.”
[3386] Lit. “is not sound in his nature.”
[3387] Cureton, “for good hope.” But *** is a common expression for “in hope,” as in Rom. viii. 20.
[3388] Lit. “did one deed.”
[3389] Lit. “used one mind.”
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