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Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents
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[3392] Lit. “as children of the free.”
[3393] Lit. “in which there is a soul.”
[3394] Lit. “let him see.”
[3395] Lit. “patient,” i.e., tolerant of the craving which seeks gratification.
[3396] Lit. “in which they had stood.”
[3397] Or “volitions.”
[3398] Lit. “have stood in.”
[3399] So Merx, “in either Rede.” Cureton, “by a vain plea.”
[3400] Lit. “this knowledge of art (or skill).”
[3401] To what other work of his he refers is not known.
[3402] Cureton, “is capable.” Dr. Payne Smith (Thes. Syr., s.v.) says, referring to *** as used in this passage: “eget, cupit, significare videtur.”
[3403] So Dr. Payne Smith. Merx renders, “Even that which men desire to do.” Cureton has, “and the same men meditate to do.”
[3404] Lit. “the sevenths.”
[3405] Lit. “Chaldæans.”
[3406] Lit. “my weakness.”
[3407] Or “sects” (αἱρέσεις).
[3408] Lit. “rich.”
[3409] ***, Shlitâne. [Of Angels, see vol. i. p. 269.]
[3410] ***, Medabhrâne. Merx, p. 74, referring to the Peshito of Gen. i. 16, thinks that by the Potentates are meant the sun and moon, and by the Governors the five planets.
[3411] [The book of Job and the Book of Ecclesiastes, with the eloquent and pathetic remonstrance (chap. iii. 18–22) “concerning the estate of the sons of men,” are proofs that God foresaw the struggles of faith against the apparently unequal ways and rulings of Providence. For popular answers see Parnell’s Hermit, and Addison, Spectator, No. 237. But a valuable comment may be found in Wordsworth’s Bampton Lectures (for 1881) on the one Religion, p. 5, Oxford, Parker, 1881.]
[3412] Merx renders *** by “emanation,” quoting two passages from Eph. Syr. where the root *** is used of the issuing of water from a fountain. Dr. Payne Smith says: “The word seems to mean no more than cursus: cf. Eusb., Theoph., i. 31. 5, 55. 1, 83, 22, where it is used of the stars; and i. 74. 13, where it means the course of nature.”
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