Section 29 (Page 83)
REFUTATIO.
veyKav, wcrre Kar avrovs ev rots rovovrots rov 'Iwdvvqv rov "^m'i1* K.vplov 'Ii/aou Xptarov fxvelav ^sujypl. firj uvj iroielo-Qai.
E« MASSr-'xgyap Harepa elprjxe, Kat Xdptv, Kat M.ovoyev>j, ical 'AXyOetav, koi Aoyov, Kat Zwijv, Kat "
AvOpwirov, Kat ^kkXijctIov, Kara.
TTjv eKelvwv vvoOecrtv vept rtjs irpwrqs SySodSos elpriKev, ev ft ovSeirw 'Iijorovs, ovSeirw Xpterros 6 rov 'Itodvvov SiSd&KaXos.
"On Se ov Trept rwv crvQytwv avrwv
''AirovroXos elpt/Kev, dXXd irept rov Kvpiov qfiwv ^lrjtrov Xptcrrov, ov Kat Aoyov
AvaKecpaXaiovfievos oiSe rov Qeov, avrbs TrerrolriKe (pavepov.
1 dvw ev ctp^ Aoyov, eire^rjyetrar Kou 6 Aoyos crap^ eyevero, Ka) ecrKyvwcrev ev rifuv.
Kara Se yap Trept rov etprjfxevov avrw rrjv eKelvwv vTroOevtv, ovy^ 6 Aoyos <rctp£ eyevero, os ye ovSe
tjXOe irore cktos TlX^pwfiaros' dXXa 6 rtjs a otKOVofilas fxerayevecrrepos rov Aoyov
*2iwrrip. transtulerunt : ut secundum eos in tantis Johannes Domini Christi Jesu memoriam non fecerit.
Si eniin Patrem dixit, et Charin, et Monogenem, et Alethian, et Logon, et Zoen, et Anthropon, et Ecclesiam, secundum illorum argumentationeni de prima ogdoade dixit, in qua nondum Jesus, nondum Christus Johannis magister.
Quia autem non de syzygiis ipsorum Apo stolus dixit, sed de Domino nostro Jesu Christo, quern et Verbum scit esse Dei, idem ipse fecit manifestum.
Recapitulans enim de eo Verbo quod ei in principio dictum est, insuper exponit: Et Verbum caro factum est, et inhabitavit in nobis.
Secun dum autem illorum argumentationem, non Verbum caro factum est, quod quidem nec venit unquam extra Pleroma : sed qui ex omnibus factus est, et sit posterior Verbo, Salvator.
1 4xai.
The omission of any equisupposes that Epiphanius has preserved Talent for this particle in the Latin the genuine words, and that the transversion, makes it doubtful whether the lator, taking an unusual degree of latiword ought not to be omitted in the tude, has rendered them freely.
MasGreek.
The writer, however, is conSUET takes just exception to this mode trasting the two passages, wherein it is of settling the difficulty, as being wholly first (dxw) predicated of the hbyos that at variance with the close spirit of the He was h &pxv> an^ subsequently, that translation.
Stieren launches out into <r&p{ iyfaero, and, by a comparison of an irrelevant discussion upon certain the two, he deduces the proof that the phases of Valentinian error, but leaves same Logos which was in the beginning the difficulty unsolved.
That either the was also incarnate. text or the translation is faulty is cer2 olxovofdai.
How is the Greek here tain ; perhaps both.
Billius corrects to be harmonised with the Latin? Grabe the Greek to the Latin, and proposes, 6—2
CHRISTUS JESUS 'oJtLLsS 2°Ma^rre ovv dvorjToi, on 'Irjo-ovf
iraOiev {nrepM.ts.
IfJ-wv, o Ka-raa-Ktjvwaai ev ti/xiv, ovrot avros ecrnv o Aoyos tov Qeov.
Ei fxev yap aXXoc m twv Aiwvwv virep T?y rjfiwv avrwv o-(i)TT)plas fa/O^ eyevero, etKOS qv irepi aWov eipr/icevai tov 'Aitoo-toXov.
Ej Se 6 Aoyos 6 tov UaTpos 6 KaTafias, avTOi 1 6 tov fiovov Qeov fiovoyeviji vlos, koto) t>jv tov TlaTpos evSoKiav o-apiccoOeif virep avOpwircev, ov irep) aXXou ecrn Kai 6 avafta?, 1 efiireirolyTat, aXX' i/ nvos, ovSe irepi SySodSos tov Xoyov irepi tov YLvplov 'Itjvov Xpio-Tov.
OvSe yap 6 Aoyos KaT avrovs irpotiyov/xevooi o-ap£ yeyove.
Aeyova-i Se tov ^wTijpa 20.
Discite igitur insensati, quoniam Jesus, qui passus est pro nobis, qui inhabitavit in nobis, idem ipse est Verbum Dei.
Si enim alius ex ^Eonibus pro nostra salute caro factus est,
aestimandum erat de altero dixisse Apostolum.
Si autem VerKph. iv. io. bum Patris qui descendit, ipse est et qui ascendit, ab uno Deo unigenitus Filius, secundum Patris placitum incarnatus pro hominibus, non de alio aliquo, neque de ogdoade Johannes sermonem fecit, sed de Domino 3Jesu Christo.
Neque enim Verbum secundum eos principaliter caro factum est.
Dicunt instead of 6 t§s oIk., to read i Ik Trforuv is of the only God, and is the negation yeyoriit. Massuet combines both Greek of the Gnostic notion that the Soter and Latin, thus, 4 ix xivruv yeyovtin, was a joint emanation from all the ^Eons Kai tt)S oIk. But may not the translator of the Pleroma.
With regard to the have rendered the Greek term oUovopla words adduced from Eph. iv. io, Valenin this place by ceconomia, as is usual TINUB also assigned to them their Cathowith the Latin fathers, Tertullian lie interpretation.
In the Didasc. Or., especially ? If so, I would propose an after it had been said that the same prialteration both in the Greek and in the mary emanation was called Monogenes Latin, e. g. dAX' b rjj oIkovo/iIq yevbpevot in the Pleroma, but Jesus, the firsti?7-e fieraycvtaTepos k.t.\.
Sed qui eeonobegotten in creation, it is added, 6 Se mia (mendose, ex omnibus) factus, et six avrSs itrrt toiovtos cSr luioTip, otos Kex<°'
[5 Te] posterior, &c. For an explanation oriaOai Sovarai' ko.1 oihirroTt tov pelvavof the dispemational auriip the reader tos
Karaphs uepl^erat, $-t\ai yap i is referred back to § 1 1 ; he may comirio-ToXos, 6 yip ivapas ai/ris iari not pare also the next section.
6 Karafids.
§ 7.
1 The translator for b reads iiri, a The translator adds Johannes. which, in fact, gives a heretical cast to Scripture is so frequently cited by a the words.
To say that the Word demere ipijaw, that in all probability the scended from the only God, would be to author's name was omitted in the oriadvance a statement with which almost ginal. every heresy but Sabellianism would 8 These names are restored to the symbolise, b tov pbvov Qeov expresses Greek order, on the authority of the as closely as diri t. p.. 0. that the Word Arundel MS.
IPSE EST VERBUM.
arw/xa -^v^ikov e/c rrj? oiKOVo/xlai KaTeo-Kevaefievov yjj1'^ j£ ev8vo~ao-Qai apptjTW irpovoia, irpog to oparov yeveavai, Kai yyqKatprrrov. api^ oe e(TTiv j? ap^aia €k tov -^ov Kara top Aoa/J.
yeyovvta xXatrt? wo tov Qeov, »71/ aXifflwc yeyovevai tov Aoyov tov Qeov efiqvvo-ev
'Itoaj/vijy.
KaJ XeXircu aimoi' tj nrpwTt] Kai ap%eyovoi oySodg.
'Evoy yap Kai tov avrov SeiKWfxevov Aoyov, Kai Movoyevovg, Kai Zwrjs, koi $wto9, /cat ^Earrrjpos, Kai Xpiarov, Kai Ylov Qeov, Kai tovtov avrov crapKw6evTO$ inrep yfiwv, XeXvrai r\ rrji SySodSos 3 <iKr\voirriy'ia.
G.43.
Tairrjjf Se XeXvfieviji, SiaireirrtoKev avrwv iraaa 17 \nr66eo~i$, f(v KaraTpeyovo-i rwv ypacpwv, iSlav viro4\|<-ei'oa>y oveipwrrovreg
6e<riv avairXaadfievoi.
"Eireira Xe^eig Kai ovofxara o-TropdStjv
Kelfieva avXXeyovreg, /j.era<pepovari, KaOwi irpoeip^Ka/xev, eK tov enitn Sotera induisse corpus animale, de dispositione aptatum inenarrabili providentia, ut visibile et palpabile fieret.
Caro est Deo, autem ilia vetus de limo secundum Adam facta plasmatio a quam vere factum Verbum Dei manifestavit Johannes.
Et soluta est illorum prima et primogenita octonatio.
Cum enim unus et idem ostenditur Logos et Monogenes, et Zoe et Phos, et Soter et Christus [et] filius Dei, et hie idem incarnatus pro nobis, soluta est octonationis illorum compago.
Hac autem soluta, decidit illorum omnis argumentatio, quam falso nomine somniantes infamant Scripturas, ad propriam argumentationem confingendam.
Post deinde dictiones et nomina dispersim posita colligentes, transferunt, sicut praediximus, ex eo quod est secunin Christ, also foic/ivwaev iv ijtur.
Still there was nothing vXikov in
The Latin version has falm nomine, indicating >pevSwvi'>f±us,in its abbreviate the Saviour.
His body was ix rijs * itpewous \f/vxixrjs ovalas, and as such form fevSuui.
Gkabe, Massuet, and under the regime of the Demiurge such ; at least was the western notion.
The Stieeen agree in condemning the read eastern phase of the heresy imagined, bri wvev/jLarucbv ijv to ff&fia tov Zwt%)os.
Hippolyt. Phil. VI. 35. ing followed by the translator, still an allusion to the words of S. Paul, Tim.
vi. 70, may justify it; and the ValenOr, as the author before expressed
tinian correlatives are a sufficiently close it, illustration of the ivriffiaus Trp ^tvtai/iji^TV t*X*0See p.
51, n. j. yv/xov ■yviZktcws of which the Apostle aKTpoTrrryla, apparently in con
tinued allusion to the words of S. John, compare also c. v. speaks ; Karovrpixovai, as in Athen. v., where after the declaration, naX
Ao-yos
iriKpws 'A\ict|Sui8ou KaraTpix*1 <** Mffi/of iybtro, added Kai taKfywotv h iuuv.
The Ogdoad, centring as it is 0X11705.
Fall fotd of. did it
CENTO lib.
Kara (picriv els to irapa (pvtrtv o/xoia voiovvtcs tois viroMASs.i.m.4.
Q£g.eis Tas rv)(ou<ras avrois irpofiaWofievois, exetTa vetpw-
/meXerav avras, ware tovs fievots e/c toov 'Ofirjpov Trotr/fidTOOv aireipoTepovs Soxelv et' e/cetV^j Trjs e£ viroyvlov fiefneXerynevtis inroOeaews "Ofiripov to. ewrj ireTroirjicevai, Kat xoXXow crvvapTrd^ecrOai Sid Trjs twv eirwv crvv9erov a.Ko\ovOlas, fir) apa Tavff ovTWi "Ofjttjpos eirj xexo/ijKw'c.
'Qs 6 tov 'HpaicXea vtrb m. 4«.
T&vpverBews exi tov ev t<£ "A.Srj Kvva vefXTro/mevov *§id twv 'O/nrjpiKwv o-Tiywv ypdtpwv ovtws'
(ovSev yap KwXvei irapaSely/iaTOS \apiv eirt/Jivriadrjvai koi tovtwv, ofiolas koi Trjs avTtji ovo-rjs evi^eiptjirewi tois dfxtpoTepoiS') Od.je'.76.
Y2<? eiirwvj awewefiTre Oofitau papea a-TCvd^ovra
Od.^'.
26.
0*010'
'HfjanXrja, fttya\»v eirittTTopa epyeov, II. f. 123.
Y.vpv<r6evs, SCeveAoio Tra'Vt Ylepcrrjidiao dum naturam, in id quod est contra naturam: similia facientes iis. qui controversias sibimetipsis quaslibet proponunt, post deinde conantur et ita ut idiots ex] Homericia versibus meditari eas [I.
: putent ex ilia temporali declamata controversia Homerum versus fecisse, et multi abducantur per compositam consequentiam vereuura, ne forte haec sic Homerus fecerit.
Quemadmoduin Herculem ab Eurystheo ad eum qui apud inferos est canem inissum ex Homericis versibus scribens ita: nihil enim prohibet exempli gratia 'conimemorari et horum, cum sit similis et eadem utrisque argumentatio.
Hsec ubi dicta dedit, eniisit limine flentem 4Herculeui invictuni, magnarum non iiisciurn rerum, Eurystheus natus Stheuelo prosapia Persei, fLe\cT$v, Lat. meditari, to which hinc inde composite, in unum sarciunl
rendering Grabe, Massuet and Stieren corpus.
Prcescr. Hier.
39. take exception.
Bearing in mind, how The translator elsewhere uses com-
ever, the Virgilian phrase musam medi tari* arena, and the custom of authors memorari in an active sense.
Conversely used by him in a passive, or rcfrigero is to declaim {Grace /i(\erfv) their verses in public, the translation reflective sense.
Et horum in rather a not amiss. a copy of koI tovtuv. the genitive is is Tertullian speaks of the llomea The translator evidently lived in
rocentones, of which IreNjECS preserves an unpoetic.il age but not UNIU8 is J ; this specimen, Homoroccntona* ctiam very happy in his second line, xocare talent, qui dc carminibu* Homeri propria o/wa, more ccntonario, ex mvMit Hcrclem magnarum cut men* non intcia rcrum.
HOMERICUS.
'E£ 'Epe'/Seu? a£ovT<x Kvva o-rvyepov 'Athao.
LIB.I. i. 20.
B~ fc* * "
» / L ** » n y GR. I. i. 20. r\ c tper, axrre Aewi/ opeo-trpo<po<t a\ni weirowas, mass.i.Ix.4.
Kap7ru\lfti0i 'a'l/a itOTV ipiXoi 8' *aVo irdvret eVovTO, ILt 3K Nt7ju$ai t tj'tdeo! te, woAutAi/toi t« yepovrev, Od 130.
■ », i ' t i *i / / * , 11.
327.
KJiKTp oKcxpvponevoi, maei oavarovce moutci.
Od.A'.
38.
'Ep/if/a« 8'
4 dwewenwev, Hi yXavKawii 'AdijvrjOd'y^ffis "HiSf e yap Kara Ovpov dZe\(pedv, «e iiroveWo.
11.jS".409.
Tt'y owe ay twv airavovpycov crvvapirayelt] virb twv eirwv tovTtaVy KOi vo/ilcreiev ovtoos avra "Ofirjpov eVt Tavrt]i Ttjf viroQecrews ireiroitjKevai ', 'O o" e/xireipot Trjg 'OfiijpiKrjs viroQecrewi eiriyvaxreTai, \suppl. fiev to. eirrj, ti)v o" viroQecriv ovk eiriyviaetcm,J eiSoos oti to fiev ti avrwv e<rrt irepl 'OoWtre'a)? eiptjfievov, to Se irepl avrov tov 'HpaicXeof, to Se irep\ Tlptafiov, to Se irepl
MeveAdov icai 'Ayafiefivovof.
"AjOay
0*6 avTct, koi ev exaa-Tov airoo. 44.
Sovs Trj 5iSla, eKiroSwv iroirjcrei t>)v viroQecriv.
Ovtw 6t«v Se icai
Ducturum ex Erebo canem atri Ditis ad auras.
Vadit at ille, velut leo nutritus montibua acer, Urbem per mediam noti simul omnes abibant, Et senes, et pueri, et nondum nuptse puellse, Plorantes multum, ac : mortem iret ad ipsam.
Mercurius prsemittit et csesia Pallas euntem si :
Fi-atrem etenim sciebat quatenus dolor exagitaret.
Quis non ex simplicibus abripiatur ab hujusmodi versibus, et Qui auteni scit Homerica, cognoscet quidem versus, argumentura autem putet sic illos Homerum in hoc argumento fecisse
? non cognoscet, sciens quoniam aliquid quidem eomm est de Ulysse dictum, aliud vero de Hercule, aliud vero de Priamo, aliud vero de Menelao et Agamemnone.
Si autem 'tulerit illos, et unumquemque suo libro reddiderit, auferet de medio praesena e. the Primitive Horn. Kara.
Horn. £/ia. pam-lo-paro! et\T)<pc,
Horn. iroAX'.
Apostolical form of sound words, the
twe/iif/a/.
Creed, the baptismal use of which was Horn.
6V /j.'
liia.
Billids understands /3i|SXv, from the beginning.
The various names s with the assentof Massuet and Stikbkn. given to the Creed in ancient times are stands in the all indicative of its high Apostolical Grabe prefers rdfei as it sequel; but why travel out of the conauthority.
Thus Iben.eus in this place The Canon of text, when the word iirdOeow suggests and in c.
19, calls it, inro$4<rei1 e.g. Arranging each verse to Truth; and below, the Truth preached by suit hit own, he destroys the poets meaning. the Church, the Preaching of Truth, and Kavbva tt)s i\r)0tlat ... iv 5id too the Tradition, c. II., and elsewhere the
pra:scriptio eavrw Kariywv, 1ov Sia. tov iv Kavova Trjs aXtjOelas aicXivrj orI'iV fo' paTTTi.<TfJ.aTOi ei\t](p€, ra (lev e/c twv ypacpwv ovofiara, Kai u. 47.
Taj Xe^eis, koi Taj TrapaftoXas eiriyvaxrerai, Ttjv Se /3\aa-<£ijfiov viroOecrtv xavTrjv [avT<i>v~j ovk ewiyvwa-erai.
Kai yap el Taj -^rrjcpiSas yvwpttrei, dXXa. ttjv aXwireKa clvti tJJj fiaatXiKtjs eiKovos ov irapaSe^eerai ■ twv eipq/xevwv airoCovt oSovs Se ev eKatrrov argumentum.
Sic autem et qui Regulam Veritatis immobilem apud se habet, quam per baptismum accepit, hsec quidem quae sunt ex Scripturis nomina, et dictiones, et parabolas cognoscet: blasphemum autem illorum argumentum non cognoscet.
Etenim gemmas agnoscet, sed vulpem pro regali imagine non recipiet.
Unumquemque autem sermonum reddens suo ordini, et aptans si
Ancient Tradition, III. ii. iii. xix. of the Creed, exhibits faith in the and I. it ; Regula Veri tatis, which term Tertullian also three Persons of the Holy Trinity, in the translator calls it which faith the convert was baptized.
The formula at first was short, but from adopts, Apol. adv.
Gentes, 47, and Re gula Fidei, Pnescr. liter.
13, de Yirg.
Vd. was gradually developed, until that it it adv. Prax.
Origen describes obtained its present complete form as I, as the Pr-edicatio Apostolica the Creed, and became the vehicle for it (Procem. in Lib. I. r. ipx4).
Lucian the Martyr similarly, the Aposto lical Tradition (Act.
Cone.
Earduin, conveying more full instruction to the 3, neophyte.
This catechetical application of the Creed was of established usage in Bull. Def. Fid. Nic.
2. JUL the days of S. Cyprian, for in comparing
A. D. 341
; —8).
The Council of Antioch quotes the schismatical baptism of Novatian with the Catholic sacrament of the
as ri]v tIotw ttjv {k SiaSoxys uird twv it aliquis Ulud while S. CYPRIAN first gives Church, he says, Quod si AtocttoX&v pauapiwv '
; opponit, ut dicat eandem Novatianum a name suggestive rather of the stringent vow of members of it legem tenere, quam Catholica Eccletia the Church Catholic, than of its Apo teneat, eodem Syiribolo, quo et not, baptiSymbolum. stolical origin, and calls zare, eundem none Deum Patrem, eunit Upon these points the reader may refer dem Filium Christum, eundem Spiritum to my Hist, and Theol.
S. the Three ac propter hoc usurpare eum potestaof Creeds, •}(>. The word Kaviiv means the tern bapthandi posse, quod videatur in builder's plumb rule, iStrirep (v t% tcktoinierrogatione Baptismi a nobis non dist'otVat fiov\ihfit6a rb bpdbv Kai rb /xij, Kavdva Trpootj>4pop.ev,.jEschin. vikti, 6rav crepare, sciat quisquis hoc opponendum f putat, primum, non esse unam nobis and et ; Iren^eub evidently had this primary idea Schismaticis Symboli legem, neque ean upon his mind in writing the words, dem interrogaiionem.
Nam cum dicunt : rbv navbva ttjs d\r)8etas iK\ivrj iv iavr<p Karixw.
Cf. my Vind. Caih. Art. vin.
Credis remissionem peccatorum, et vitam b mentiBetemam per sanctam Ecclesiam ? omitted in the Arundel MS., but Ttdcrit untur in interrogaiione, quando non ha-
is beant Ecclesiam.
Ep.
76, see also Ep. should have commenced a page, a place of frequent error through carelessness.
See the Abund. specimen. it 70, and S. Hilar. Lib. ad Const. Aug.; S. Cyril Hieros.
Catech.
11. Mystag.; With respect to the Baptismal use S. Basil de Sp. S. 16
Const. Ap. vii. 41.
CATHOLICA.
Ty ISta Ta^ei,Ka\ irpoarapfiocras too rrji aKrjOelas croo/uLaTtw, yvp- ^gS^h^S^ i-axret /cat avvirocrTarov eirideikei to ir\a<r/ia avTwv.
Hiirei oe Ttj CKqvfj TauTy XetVet 1} 1airoXvTpwo-ii, Iva Tty tov afit/j.ov irepaiwcras tov avacrKevdXpvTO.
\6yov eireveyavrov avrwv
[I.
J eTreveyKri,~j /caXtoy e^eiv vireXd^o/iev eiriSei^ai irpoTepov, Keiv, ^l. ev ois ot irarepes avroi TovSe tov *fivdov SiaipepovTat irpos aXXfJXot/y, coy eK Siatpopwv irvevfuaToov T>js vXdvrjs ovreg.
Kai eK toutov yap aKpifiws (rvviSelv eaTai ^eaTtJ, /cat sirpb T)Jy diroSel^ews, fiefialav Ttjv viro T^y 'E/c/cX^trt'ay Kt\pv(T<Top.evt\v aKtiQeiav, Kai Ttjv viro tovtwv irapaireiroiqfjievriv ^evoijyopiav, veritatis corpusculo, denudabit, et insubstantivum ostendet figmentum ipsorum.
Quoniam autem scenes huic deest redemptio, ut quia mimum ipsorum explicans, deetructorem sermonem inferat, bene habere putavimus ostendere primo in quibus ipsi
patres hujus fabulae discrepant adversus se invicem, quasi qui sint ex variis spiritibus erroris.
Et ex hoc enim diligenter cognoscere est, et ex ostensione, earn firmam quae ab Ecclesia praedicatur veritatein, et ab iis id quod fingitur falsiloquium. translation similar instances to which will be noticed as they occur.
dTroXiVp&wis may here represent a ; Petavius, Not. in Episcenic term if ; phan. be right.
But his criticism fails Mi/to? and mimus, like our English word maeh, mean any irregular dramatic
to satisfy the judgment, though he is followed by Grabs and Massuet and Stieren.
The 4{68tw of a play was action, as well as the impersonator.
Here has the meaning of farce. it called the diriXircris, for which, though e. having
irepauioas, explicans, i. rolled or read out the MS. scroll to the in another sense, diroXtfrpwo-is was a last word.
In x. synonym, as Hesyohics shews.
Tertdllian, where he says, (c.
adv. the equiva 4, it is § lent of iTeriXeffe.
For 0vnov the recepta lectio.
Vol.), Quod tuperett, inquis, vos vaUte plaudite, marks an &t6\v(jis of the Latin drama.
The translator indicates the cor
et rupt reading uirA.
But xpd makes far must confess how I better sense.
It marks the Prcescriptio of Iren«ds.
For as Tertcllian, in his ever that a clear case has not been made out to fix upon irokCrpwra the treatise bearing that title, shewed that for heretics there lay no appeal to the Bcenic signification of driXiATM, however may be of that word close a synonym it Scriptures, because of their dissent from as regards the manumission of a slave the Church to which those Scriptures am more inclined there or captive.
I so S. Irefore to suppose that d7r6Xuiris was writ were originally committed ; NJ.ua shews that the universality and ten by Iren^us, but that through care uniformity, with which the Church Ca tholic had held a definite body of doc lessness some writer substituted the word so frequently in the mouth of the Gnostic party, ivoK6rpu<ns, also that trine, as contrasted with the variations of the Valentinian error, constituted this corruption was antecedent to the
REGULA fit .
Ke(^>.
Expositio prcedicationis veritatis, quam ab Apostolis Ecclesia percipiens custodit. ftev yap 'E/c/c\i7<r/a, Kalirep /ca0' oXijy t?{ oiKOVfi-evijf ews irepaTtov rrjs yds Siea-irapfievtj, irapa.
St twv 'AttoittoXcov, Kal Tu>v eicelvwv /madqrwv irapa\af3od<ra Tr)v as Ieva Qeov UaTepa iravroKpaTopa, tov ireTrottjKOTa tov ovpavov, Kal t>jv yrjv, Kat Tas OaXaa-aas, /cat iran-a to. iv avrois, tiotiv koi els eva Xpio-Tov 'Ijjo-ow, tov vlov tov Qeov, tov capKwOevra vwep Ttjs r)/j.erepas (rwnipiasr /cat els Tlvevfia ayiov, to Sia tS>v irpofptyraiv KeKt/pv^os "ray olxovofilas, /cat ray eXewrety,
cap. n.
Ecclesia enim [et quidem] per unirersum orbem usque ad fines terras [disseminata, et ab Apostolis. et discipulis eorum accepit earn fidem, quae est in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, qui fecit cwlum et terrain, et mare, et omnia quce in eis sunt et in unum :
Christum Jesum filium Dei, incarnatum pro nostra * et in Spiritum Sanctum, qui per Prophetas pnedicavit salute :
KOropJas Kal Tas Aewrfit, ...to rdSos, . . . the strongest proof of the falsity of this latter. rrir tvaapKov avdXrf^ix, . . . rijr iv rrj The reader will observe the neces tov llarpbs Topovalar, .
. dreurrijecu -.7
,.■
c . ttooom cdpKa, . . . KpUrw Sixalar ir rots raai Tof/pr/rat, . . . t4 pir TvevpaTuca sity arising out of Gnostic perversion of the truth, for the formal assertion of tijs Tomjplas, ...els rb alwriop Tup, . faith in One God the Creator, &c.
The . Tots .
. rots p,iv &r apxvsi T0** St notion of a Demiurge or Creator far in Si StKalois, .
. iK purapoias, . . . S6£a* aiajrlar. ferior to the Supreme Bythus was to be Tas olxopopias. The translator adds abjured by the convert.
For a similar * Dei, as excluding the Valentinian oUoexpressed in One Lord reason faith is Jesus Christ, to exclude the Gnostic no vopia.
Tas tkcuffcts.
The translator reads tion of the fourfold Christ.
See note
i, would seem from p. 6i.
The primitive Creed of the the singular.
But it IV. lvi. that the Greek preserves the Church Catholic was variously modified true reading, in allusion to the double to suit the varying need of the Church Advent of Christ proclaimed by the in different localities.
Very possibly
IREX.SCS,
by the introduction of parti cular terms, and the modification of prophets, the first in great humility up on his Incarnation, the second in power a more anti-Valenand glory. others, has given it tinian cast than its more simple Oriental The Greek order, Christum Jesum,
restored on the faith of the AROSDEL MS. such terms are oapKuSbna.
Ac, to Sia TpotpirrHr KeKvpvxis, rat olis prototype ;
VERITATIS.
koi rr)v eK TlapOevov yevvtjcriv, Kai to irdOos, Kai rr)v eyepcrtv J" eK veKpwv, Kai TtfV evaapKov ei? rov$ ovpavovs ava\t]\yiv tov tiya-irriiAevov Xpiarov 'Ii/trov to? Kvplov t)/xwv, Kai rr)v eK twv ovpavwv ev rrj $6£{i tov TlaTpos irapow'iav avrov eirl to avaKecpaXaiwera&Oat to. iravra, koi avao~Trj<rai iravav crdpKa v. ix. iraatji dvdpwTrortjrof, tva Xpio-rw 'Iijo-o? rw Kvplw t)/xwv, Kai Oew, Kai ~Z,wrrjpi, koi HacriXei, Kara. Trjv evSoKtav to? TLaTpoi tov dopdrov, irav yovv Kafi^y eirovpavlwv Kai etriyelwv koi Karaydovlwv, Kai iraaa yhw&tra e^o/xo\oyrj<rtjTai avrw, Kai Kp'iaiv SiKalav ev rots izam Ttoir)<Tr\Tai' to yuei> irvevixartKa T?y Trovrjplai, Kai dyyeXovi [rovg] TrapafteftrjKOTai, Kai ev airovracrla yeyovorai, Kai tow? a<refieif, Kai aSUovi, Kai avofiov?,
Kai /3\a<r<pri/j.ovs twv avdpwirwv elf to alwviov vvp Treaty 0*6 SiKatois, Kai oerloii, Kai rd$ evroXag avrov TerrjprjKOcri, of. iv. bun to<9 Kai ev rrj dydirtj avrov SiaftefxevtiKocri roig [fiev] air apx>j$, m. 49. roii eK fieravotas, Xwr)v
Se -)(apio-dfievog atpOaptrlav Swprjatirai, Kai Soj^av alwviav Trepnroirio-»]. dispositiones Dei, et adventum, et earn, quae est ex Virgine generationem, et passionem, et resurrectionera a mortuis, et in carne in coeloa ascensionem dilecti Jesu Christi Domini nostri, et de ccelis in gloria Patris adventum ejus, ad recapitulanda Epi»* 1»-
universa, et resuscitandam omnem carnem humani generis, ut Christo Jesu Domino nostro, et Deo, et Salvatori, et Regi, secundum placitum Patris invisibilis omne genu curvet cwlestium, pml ». io, ei, et terrestrium, et in/ernorum. et omnis lingua confiteatur et judicium justum in omnibus faciat: spiritalia quidem nequitice, et ep»*»- »l angelos 'transgressos, atque apostatas factos, et impios, et injustos, et iniquos, et blasphemos homines in seternum ignem mittat justis autem et sequis, et praecepta ejus servantibus, et in dilectione ejus perseverantibus, quibusdam quidem ab initio, : quibusdam autem ex pcenitentia, vitam donans incorruptelam loco muneris conferat, et claritatem seternam circumdet. mox incunte estate viam virtutit ingretsi, xzpw&pwos, confers at an act of
alii priut grace.
Salvation with the Valentinian perpetuo in ea ambxdarunt ; man per invia vitlorum aberrantes, deinde ad depended upon whether or no a were of the spiritual seed, irrespectively meliorem frugem conveni, in recto traquibus vtri»que vitam, was the effect theremite persliterunt of his actions it :
: fore of fate and necessity, and not (Cternam pollicetur Auctor noster. babe observes:
Alii enim The ABUND. MS. has tramgrcssorcs.
of grace.
TRAD1TI0 LIB. I.iii.
(JR. 1. iii.
MASS. 1. 1.2.
Keep. y.
Ostensio neque plus, neque minus de ea quae est fide posse quosdam dicere.
TOYTO to Kripvyna vapetXtjtpvta, /cat Tavrtjv t>]v irlcrTiv, o. 46. cos irpoeipanev, r/ 'E/c/cXi7<rta, Kalirep ev o\op Top /coayxcp Ste- <nrap/j.evrj, €7rt/ueX<2c (pvXdcrerei, cos "ei-a oikov olicovtrcr /cat Ofiolcos TTHTTeuei toutois, ws fildv y^v^rjv /cat Tt)V avrrjv H^ovcra iv. ixiu.
KapSlav, kcu crv/j.(pwvws ravTa Kqpvererei, /cat SiSdaicei, /cat 2 at Kara tov TrapaSlSwiriv, cos ev crTOfia KeKTrj/nevt}.
Kat yap Koafiov SidXeKTOi avo/motat, aXX'
Suvafxis Ttjs irapa&ocreoos fila Kai r\ avry.
Kat ovre at 3ev Tepnavlats iSpvfievat eK/cXij-
crtat aXXtwy ireiricrTevKaeriv, rj aXXtoy TrapaSiSoacrtv, ot/Te ev
CAP. III.
Hanc preedicationem cum acceperit, et hanc fidem, quemadmodum praediximus, Ecclesia, et quidem in universutn mundum disseminata, diligenter custodit, quasi unam domum inhabitans : et similiter credit iis, videlicet quasi unam animam habens et unum cor, et consonanter haec praedicat, et docet, et tradit, quasi unum possidens os. Nam etsi in mundo loquelae dissimiles sunt, sed tamen virtus traditionis una et eadem est.
Et neque hae quae in Germania sunt fundatse ecclesiae, aliter credunt, aut aliter tradunt: neque hae quae in Hiberis sunt, neque hae quae in 1 God " makoth men to be of one nts aquam salsam infundunt.
H. N. xxxi.
Tacitus the same, Perculsus mind in an house," and this scripture 7. tot rictoriis Germanias servitium premere.
An. n.
73.
Cesar, like the translator, guided the words of the writer, as also of S. Cyprian, de Un. Eccl., In domo Dei in Ecclesia Christi, unanimes habi always in the singular.
The writes it plural of course must apply to the whole of Germany proper, and not, as some tant, Concordes et simplices perseverant.
The character of the Christian Church have supposed, to the Rhenish provinces on the day of Pentecost still subsisted, alone.
Grabs cites Tertullian, c.
Jud. and the various members of the Church Catholic were of one accord, ev rtf aimf.
1 For al the translator seems to have Britannorum inaccessa Romanis
: loca, Christo vero subdita et Sarmata- ; If there be, 4c. el, read rum, et Dacorum, et Gtrmanorum, et b>Ytpiuxrlait.
Punt usee the plu ral, Gallia1 Germaniaque ardenlibus Ha Scytharum, et multarum abdilarum gen * tium.
CATIIOLICA.
Taf? 1,I/3tiplaii, oure ev aKeXTOtj, oure kclto. tch avaroXas, Q™"J'i?i'
* » A '« '
* A O '
» • * ' l " MASS. I. x. 2. oure ev JxiymrTU), oure ev Jxipvri, oure at 6xaTa fjteo~a tov Kocrfjiou iSpv/j.evar aW Sxr-wep 6 tjXioi, to KTto~fia tov Qeov, ev o\w T(S Koafiu) etc xai
avros, ovtw kcli to Krjpvyfia Ttji Celtis, neque hsB quse 4 in Oriente, neque hse quse in .JSgypto, neque hae quse in Libya, neque hae quse in medio mundi sunt constitute: sed sicut sol creatura Dei in universo mundo unus et idem est ; sio et s (lumen,) prsedicatio veritatis, ubique lucet, 1 'lp-qplait.
We have Pliny's autho the Garonne.
A Scaldi ad Sequanam rity for the plural form, Omnes autem Belgica; ah co ad Garumnam Celtica, eademque Lugdunensis.
Pliny, N. II.
Hispanice aduobus Pyrenadpromontoriis, 4c. H.
N. it. ii.
Also S.
Jkbom, Marcum jEgyplium Galliarum primum circa Rhodanum, deinde Hispaniarum IV.
17.
The writer therefore was a
bishop of Celtic Gaul.
But the inha bitants of the whole of Gaul and Ger nobiles faminos decepisse.
Comment, in Is. LXIY.
The word marks the division of Spain into two unequal portions, the many were styled Celts.
The reader may compare The Hist, and Theol. of the Three Creeds, p. 680, where he will find a brief statement of reasons for assign one north and the other south of the Ebro.
The translation however would ing the establishment of Christianity in seem to indicate h> rots 'IpnpoU.
It is Gaul to an eastern rather than to any in the highest degree probable that S.
Paul first preached the Gospel in Spain, western source.
* Kari p.iaa.
Ecclesiam Hierosolyto the Spanish descendants of his own mitanam, eique vicinas, Irenceum hie inTartessian ancestors.
He expresses a tellexisse . . . unicuique notum est.
Gbabe. decided intention of visiting Spain, Rom.
So decided an opinion makes me hesi tate in asking whether the Church of zv.
44, »8, and the years that inter Jerusalem was not comprised among vened between his first and second im those Kara ria draroX&i, leaving tA pjprisonment would allow sufficient time for the purpose.
The assertion of S.
<ra tov kSj/wv to embrace the Churches of imperial Italy as the central point, Clemens Rom. is confirmatory of this relatively to which the Churches of notion, where he says that the Apostle journeyed ^irl ri rtpaa rijt diaews on the East and of the West are men tioned?
Or it may mean the central his sacred mission ; the confines of the continent of Europe, so far as the Go West, in a letter written at Home, can spel had then penetrated, which would scarce mean any thing else than the supply the fourth cardinal point of the southern coast of France (Gallia Narcompass, and fill up the definition of the bonensis) and Spain.
Accordingly, it Churches of the East, West, South, and has been a constant tradition in the North.
Perhaps the first may be the pre Church, that at least this latter country ferable interpretation.
In the transla was evangelised by S.
Paul ; compare Tillemont, Mem. I. 867, and Gbabe's tion Massuet omits sunt through care lessness, and he is followed by Stieben. authorities.
4 In Oriente] Melius reddidissent a (v KeKrdts.
QaUomim diversas navetus et novi Interpretes Ml partibus tiones Christo rubditas, are words of Tebtullian, c. Jud.
The central part of Orientalibus, quia Irenseus in Grseco posuit pluraliter kotA tAj AvoroXds" varias Gaul was Celtic, between the Seine and