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Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents
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[3453] Lit. “commands.”
[3454] According to Neander, General Church History, i. 109, this was the Abgar Bar Manu with whom Bardesan is said to have stood very high. His conversion is placed between 160 and 170 a.d.
[3455] For ***, Merx, by omitting one ***, gives ***, “readings.” But what is meant is not clear. Ephraem Syrus ascribes certain compositions of this name to Bardesanes. Cf. Hahn, Bard. Gnost., p. 28.
[3456] Or “Hutra.”
[3457] Lit. “this man who is seen.”
[3458] Lit. “all natures.”
[3459] Lit. “this order.”
[3460] Lit. “natures.”
[3461] The Greek σύνοδοι.
[3462] The five planets are called by their Greek names, Κρόνος, κ.τ.λ.
A Letter of Mara, Son of Serapion.
[3463] [Elucidation I. p. 742, infra. See p. 722, supra.]
[3464] Lit. “good conscience.”
[3465] Or, “my daily converse is with learning.” So Dr. Payne Smith is inclined to take these difficult words, supplying, as Cureton evidently does, the pronoun ***. The construction would be easier if we could take the participle *** as a passive, and render: “It (the kind of life men lead) has been explored by me by means of study.”
[3466] Lit. “Græcism.”
[3467] The meaning probably is, that the maxims referred to lost their importance for him when he entered upon the new life of a Christian (so Cureton), or their importance to mankind when Christianity itself was born into the world. But why he did not substitute more distinctive Christian teaching is not clear. Perhaps the fear of persecution influenced him.
[3468] That is, the matters constituting “a liberal education.”
[3469] Cureton’s less literal rendering probably gives the true sense: “with whose liberty nothing else can be compared.”
[3470] Cureton: “I have heard.” The unpointed text is here ambiguous.
[3471] Read ***, instead of ***, “peoples.”
[3472] Perhaps “our” is meant.
[3473] Cureton: “and the dark cloud collected our sighs.” But the words immediately following, as well as the fact that in each of the clauses the nominative is placed last, favours the rendering given.
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