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[3582] Lit. “heart.”

[3583] Lit. “be of opinion.”

[3584] This seems preferable to Cureton’s, “and let thy children also follow after thee.” Had this been the meaning, probably the verb *** would have been used, as in the preceding sentence, not ***.

[3585] So the Sibylline oracle, as quoted by Cureton in the Greek:—

“And, when he would the starry steep of heaven

Ascend, the Sire Immortal did his works

With mighty blasts assail: forthwith the winds

Hurled prostrate from its height the towering pile,

And bitter strife among the builders roused.”

[3586] Lit. “chosen.” The same expression, except that the similar *** is used for ***, occurs Sap. Sol. xiv. 6, as a translation of ὑπερηφάνων γιγάντων, gigantes superbi. See Thes. Syr., s.v. ***.

[3587] The ms. has “Antonius.”

[3588] Cureton, for the last clause, gives “as thou wilt,” remarking that the sense is obscure. The literal rendering is, “if thou wilt,” the consequent clause being unexpressed. “If you please, accept them,” seems what is meant.

II. From the Discourse on Soul and Body.

[3589] By Melito, bishop of Sardis.

[3590] *** seems to be the true reading, not the *** of the printed ms.

[3591] [Such passages sustain the testimony of Jerome and others, that this venerable and learned Father was an eloquent preacher.]

III. From the Discourse on the Cross.

[3592] By the same.

[3593] Or “wove—a body from our material.”

[3594] Lit. “changing.”

[3595] Lit. “He was everything.”

IV. On Faith.

[3596] Of Melito the bishop.

V.

[3597] By Melito, bishop of Attica. [Of this epigraph, which becomes Ittica below, I have never seen a sufficient explanation.]

[3598] Lit. “the Lamb without voice.”

[3599] The Greek γλωσσόκομον.

[3600] [For Phlegon’s testimony, see references, vol. vii. p. 257. But note Lightfoot, Ap. F., part ii. vol. i. p. 512; his remark on Origen, Celsus, vol. iv. p. 437, this series.]

[3601] This is the rendering of ***; but Cureton has “fled,” as though he read ***.

VI.

[3602] By the holy Melito, bishop of the city of Ittica. [For Melito, in Lightfoot’s Apost. Fathers, consult part ii. vol. i. pp. 133, 328, 428, 443–446, 468–469, 494. See Lardner, Credib., vol. ii. 157, etc.; Westcott, Canon, p. 246. See Polycrates, infra; on which consult Schaff, History, etc., vol. ii. p. 736. Above all, see Routh, R. S., tom. i. pp. 113–153.]

 

 

 

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