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Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents
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[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.”
[3430] Lit. “Chaldaism.”
[3431] The Greek κλίμα, denoting one of the seven belts (see p. 732, below) into which the earth’s latitude was said to be divided. The Arabs also borrowed the word.
[3432] Or “family.”
[3433] That is, their own “houses,” as below. Each house had one of the heavenly bodies as its “lord,” who was stronger, or better “located” in his own house than in any other. Also, of two planets equally strong in other respects, that which was in the strongest house was the stronger. The strength of the houses was determined by the order in which they rose, the strongest being that about to rise, which was called the ascendant.
[3434] Lit. “the signs of humanity.”
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