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Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents
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[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.”
[3413] Read *** for ***.
[3414] Lit. “in their descents.”
[3415] Lit. “in their descents.”
[3416] Or “nativity,” “natal hour” (*** = place of birth, “Geburtshaus:” Merx).
[3417] Lit. “this agent of change.” Cureton, “this alternation.” “Das diese Veränderung bewirkende Agens” is the rendering of Merx.
[3418] Dr. Payne Smith thinks the reference to be to the Gnostic νοῦς, ψυχή, and σῶμα, which seem to be spoken of just before. This difficult passage is rendered by Cureton: “And this alternation itself is called the Fortune, and the Nativity of this assemblage, which is being sifted and purified for the assistance of that which,” etc. Merx has, “…zur Unterstützung des Dinges, welches…unterstützt worden ist und unterstützt bleibt bis zur Vernichtung des Weltalls.”
[3419] Lit. “are Nature’s own.”
[3420] Lit. “a sufficiency in measure for all bodies.”
[3421] Lit. “be heads to.”
[3422] Lit. “know ye distinctly.”
[3423] Or “heads.”
[3424] Lit. “agent of change,” as above. Merx: “das Veränderungs-princip.”
[3425] Lit. “excellence.”
[3426] i.e., zones of the earth. See p. 732, note 2, infra.
[3427] Or, “power as to themselves.”
[3428] Lit. “the matter compels thee to be convinced.”
[3429] Lit. “Chaldæans.”
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