CHAPTER V
CHAPTER V
PHILOXENUS'
METHOD OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION
AS SEEN IN THIS MANUSCRIPT
Philoxenus had a high view of scripture.
He believed that the Bible was the principal authority in all matters of
Christian doctrine and practice.
He wrote in the Discourses, "Behold the orthodox canon which has been inscribed
for us in the Holy Scriptures!"
"I do not speak these things of myself, but I follow the will of the Holy nt "While reading our discourse, it is right for Scriptures. the reader to examine the Holy Scriptures and see whether these words in their contexts are thus understood. "492
To the question, "Does the Holy Spirit leave a man when he sins and return to him when he repents?" Philoxenus prefaces his answer by saying:
"On questions like these, it is not right for us to answer those who ask from our own thinking, but from the teaching of the Holy Scriptures; for in them is the correct answer to every question which is asked in faith."423
In the fragments before us, he affirms a blind faith in the written text of scripture:
"We believe these things because they are written, and not because they are comprehensible to those who «494 "Its reading is its explanation and faith
hear them. accepts this.
These sentiments are not of course peculiar to Philoxenus.
They belong to a tradition which was well established in the Church before his time.
What is noteworthy is that, while he held the Councils of Nicea (A.D.
325) and Constantinople (A.D.
381) in the highest regard, (7° he did not appeal to them as ultimately authoritative in matters of the Christian faith.
The tenor of all his writings assumes the scriptures to be the final court of appeal.
The affirmation of scriptural authority is of course no guarantee that the scriptures so affirmed will be universally understood and interpreted in the same way.
Religious history provides many examples illustrative of that fact.
How, then,
did Philoxenus interpret the Bible?
His own answer to that question is to be found in one of his statements quoted above:
"Tts reading is its explanation and faith accepts this."
For him, the meaning of the text was self-evident.
All that was required was that it be accepted in its own terms.
For this reason, he sponsored a new translation of the New Testament into Syriac, the purpose of which was to express as clearly as possible the meaning of the original Greek: 178
Having done that, he is content to maintain the mystery and incomprehensibility of a given biblical text rather than seek an explanation which the text does not warrant:
"We only adhere to that which is written and we do not penetrate into the innermost part of the word by questioning, lest error confront us instead of knowledge, and deception instead of tut hela Again, he writes, "Christians who believe accept it, not by understanding it, but because it is written,"0?
The operative words in all these quotations are "faith" and its cognates.
It is faith which accepts the "reading" as the explanation.
Wisdom and the understanding of scriptures
can only come to the true believer.
The heretic, then, cannot possibly receive and understand the divine wisdom in scripture.
In one of his Discourses, Philoxenus develops the idea that it takes the eye of faith to see these things, for "the eye of the body is too small for the sight of our
mysteries.
In this, he simply restates St. Paul's dictum, "The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discernea.">93
As our author sees it, "Not every man can hear and receive that wisdom.""04
It takes faith because it necessarily involves accepting a divine mystery.
Philoxenus never loses sight of the mystery ܣ
ܐ) ( which enshrouds the revelation of God.
Fundamentally, it is
the mystery of the Incarnation.
This divine mystery was first given when God created Adam in His image ,>°® was transmitted to Seth and through Seth and the people listed in the Lucan genealogy to Christ ,>°7 who perfected it by His divine action. °°8 Thus, Philoxenus can speak of "the mystery of His growth, ">0? of His baptism, -!° and of His earthly
ministry ܐܐ ܘܢܪܒܖܡ ) dit Sometimes he applies the word "mystery" to biblical statements about these realities.
The Christian "remembers the proclaimed word of the mystery,"
"accepts it, not by understanding it but because it is
written," and yields himself to God's authority.
These statements are inscribed in the Old 01
o° and are not just a pious hope, for "disciples .
. have also died and are eras The Johannine description so2L5 dying in various ways for Him. of the Incarnation is itself called a "mystery.
The divine promise and its fulfilment both contain the mystery of the real presence of God as that presence is revealed in those who transmitted His image from Adam to Christ and in the words of holy scripture, but supremely in the incarnate Son of God
Himself.
In Philoxenus' view, monophysitism maintained the mystery by its refusal to define the Person of Christ in other than scriptural ways, while the Chalcedonian and Nestorian doctrines of two distinct natures denied it.
With such a view of scripture, one might expect Philoxenus to eschew any exposition of or commentary on the Bible.
But such is not the case.
In the manuscript before us are fragments of expository discourses on topics from the first three chapters of Luke, and in some of his other writings he reverts time and again to biblical themes not merely to quote them but to interpret them.
Obviously, "the reading" is not always "its explanation."
Biblical texts require interpretation and Philoxenus is not slow to provide it.
Nevertheless, his fundamental respect for scripture saves him from espousing the allegorizing methods of the Alexandrian school so prevalent in Western Christendom in his day and for a millenium after.
His first principle of interpretation is that the text must be understood literally or on its own terms.
"The reading is its explanation" may overstate this principle, but it does put it in bold relief.
Because of this conviction, he sees significance in the repetition of words, phrases and ideas in scriptures, "especially since it is unusual for the written word to have one clear meaning :3
The fact that he imports trinitarian concepts into his interpretation of Genesis
1:26-27 (the context of this last quotation) simply reveals what he presupposes the nature of God to be, and does not
detract from the basic intention of his approach to the text.
There is no evidence in his writings, however, for his dealing with such repetitions in a slavishly mechanical way, as though he were duty-bound to give a meaning to every repetition he found.
Moreover, in this particular context, he combats the interpretation of these two verses which says in effect that because there is repetition they represent two distinct acts of God (i.e., "God said, Let us make man, etc.," then [later], "God made man, etc.").
Philoxenus regards the repetition as simply reinforcing the main meaning, 7 To interpret literally is to understand the context of a biblical text.
In the thirteenth fragment, he sees the Lucan genealogy as "explaining the voice of the Father calling to His
Son" in the Baptism narrative which immediately precedes 1 For him, the genealogy is not an unrelated unit fortuitously inserted into the third Gospel.
On the contrary, he believes that its position in the narrative immediately after Jesus'
Baptism has significance for its interpretation.
Its context is important.
Another example of contextual exposition is found in Fragment 7.
There the focus is Luke 2:5lb ("His mother kept all these things in her heart."), which he relates both to preceding statements (Luke 2:19, 33, 40, 5la) and to the verse which follows. „܆܂ 9 The result is a running commentary on related statements leading up to an exposition of Luke 2:52.
A form of running commentary which Philoxenus found particularly suited to his style was that of the extended paraphrase.
In the first fragment, he explains the divine sentence pronounced on Cain (Genesis 4:15) by a long paraphrase in which God speaks in the first person, and this is even
Similar marked in the margin as a direct quotation. examples are found in his ascetic Discourses.
In the Fighth Discourse, he expands Jesus' retort to His mother in John 2:4
("Woman, what have you to do with me?") into some fourteen lines of printed text purporting to be the words of Jesus in
order to give it the meaning he believes it to have.
The Ninth Discourse extends Matthew 11:28 to forty-six lines of printed text. 27
Other instances could also be cited illustrating the same paraphrastic style of expository
discourse.
Fxtended paraphrases are also found in midrashic
sections of some of the targums, but this does not necessarily mean that the roots of Philoxenus' usage are to be sought there.
More probably it indicates that this was an effective method of interpreting the scriptures orally, for it lends itself well to teaching and preaching.
The homilies of Chrysostom contain examples of this style of interpretation.>*4 It is noteworthy that following this single example in our manuscript of his use of extended paraphrase, Philoxenus still considers further interpretation to be necessary.
In this case, he gives five alternative explanations for the sentence, "Whoever kills Cain shall release seven penalties"
(Genesis 4:15), without stating which in his view is the best
I have been unable to find in Philoxenus' works any other instance of this kind of exegesis which merely lists the alternatives without drawing any conclusion.
It certainly demonstrates that where no doctrinal issue is at stake, he is willing to leave the matter unresolved.
It also shows very clearly that he did not always hold to his own dictum, "Its reading is its explanation."
Fragment 1 also illustrates another facet of Philoxenus' approach to the interpretation of scripture.
In the space of two folios he moves exegetically from Matthew 18:22 to Genesis 4:24 to Genesis 4:15-17 (with a digression on John 8:44) to the building programs of Hezekiah, David and Solomon
(in that order) where the fragment breaks ower 228 The contrast drawn by Philoxenus between the call to forgiveness in Matthew 18:22
("not seven times but seventy times seven") and the threatened vengeance multiplied seven times in Genesis 4:15 and "seventy times seven" times in Genesis 4:24
(LXX), has been noted by interpreters ancient and modern, and is exegetically sound.>2/ His digressions in the remainder of the fragment, however, have no apparent bearing on Matthew 18:22.
Instead, their interrelationship depends on the associations they have with one another in the mind of the interpreter.
The interpretation is always literal (with only a hint of typology at the end of the eragment).°2° Its development seems undisciplined and to that extent uncharacteristic of Philoxenus; but it is merely a wide-ranging contextual approach to a given text which in this instance, sees the whole Bible as the legitimate eonvexit®"?
In this light, it is not unlike the contextual exposition found in Fragment 7 (referred to above), the difference there being that the associated texts were all in the same chapter of Luke.
Philoxenus' second principle of interpretation is that a biblical text may be understood typologically.
This is never stated explicitly, but it is implicit in his use of the word ܐܗܦܘܛ and in some of his expositions.
It is an approach to scripture which is theologically grounded.
God, the Father, is the "Archetype"
(rSoa9o-f 5%), enshrouded in the mystery of His being, whose self-revelations were in types and shadows until the full revelation was made when the Word became flesh in Jesus.
Our author tells us, for example, that the divine likeness in man is.a "type" of Him who is the Archetype; >> that is to say, the likeness has factual reality in itself, yet it points beyond itself.
To understand this is to understand Philoxenus' typological use of the Bible, and especially of the Old Testament.
In this important way, it is distinguished from allegorical interpretation for which the factual content of a passage is irrelevant to the hidden or spiritual meaning which it is said to contain.
In our manuscript, several examples of his typological use of the Old Testament occur.
He believes that "types and mysteries of (Christ) were .
. formed and inscribed in the Old Testament," and these are distinct from the predictions
Per The first fragment which prophets made concerning Him. remarks parenthetically that the Davidic kingdom was given to Solomon "as a type"; but no development of this thought survives, for the fragment ends in the next line.
In Fragment 11, Philoxenus sees in Jacob's dream of the ladder to heaven on which angels ascended and descended, a type of the two Gospel genealogies of Christ: the one "descending" from Abraham to Christ (Matthew 1:1-16), and the other "ascending" from Christ to Adam (Luke 3223-38).->"
In his comment, he acknowledges the legitimacy of a literal and contextual interpretation of the dream having application to Jacob's going down to Laban's house and returning ("ascending") from it.
The type in the Old Testament event foreshadows the divine archetype in an aspect (that of the genealogies) of the full revelation of God in the Incarnation.
In an entirely different
context, our author uses the same dream to illustrate the ascending experience of a man devoted to the ascetic life, but makes no suggestion that it has either a literal or a typological meaning. ܂ 95 In that instance, the context of his interpretation is parenetic and "Jacob's ladder" becomes a useful metaphor which, in the enthusiasm of the author, is extended to the point of allegory.
Dreams, by their very nature, invite all sorts of interpretations; so his allegorizing tendency at this point must not be overstressed.
In more general terms, but still adhering to his understanding of Old Testament typology, Philoxenus sees God's adoption of Israel as a type, with all the things associated with the Israelites as "shadows prefiguring the reality.">26
The reality is the revelation of God in Christ of whose body Christian believers are members; "for we are not known as children apart from the Person of the Son, but He is the head and we are members of His body.
ܡ The reality of adoption in Christ is the reality of the Incarnation.
ܝ On the other hand, the adoption of Israel was nominal.
They were called "first-born"
(Exodus 4:22) to "teach that others would come after them"; that is, "the Gentiles were to be accepted in p39 Israel's calling was historically factual their place. within the context of the old covenant with God, but it was also a type, a foreshadowing, of the divine reality of the Church as the body of Christ.
As far as this fragmentary work is concerned, the New Testament offers no "types," for its main witness is to the revelation of God, the Archetype.
The types and shadows of the Old Testament are replaced by the full light of the New.
However, his treatment of baptism suggests that a new typology is to be found in the sacramental activity of the Church, although this idea remains largely undeveloped.
In Fragment 10, he considers baptism to be "a type of death and resurrection"; while in Fragment 12, it is "a type of (the world's) consummation in that when He was baptized Jesus fulfilled His Father's will, and created all things new, both ap 3?
The Church's practice of baptism, visible and invisible. then, typifies in retrospect Christ's baptism, death and resurrection, and in prospect the final consummation of the
world, as well as initiating the baptized into the body of Christ.
In this double approach, literal and typological, to the interpretation of the Bible, Philoxenus followed the School of Antioch; yet he regarded as heretics those who were its greatest exponents -- Diodore of Tarsus and his famous students, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, and Nestorius -- accusing them all of Nestorianism. >4+
John Chrysostom, another of Diodore's students, a friend of Theodore and a great popularizer of Antiochian hermeneutics, escaped the monophysite charge of heresy, and instead was held in high a2 Philoxenus was well enough regard as a biblical exegete. acquainted with the works of Chrysostom to cite them some thirty times in his treatise on how "One Person of the Holy
In his Spirit Became Incarnate and Suffered for Us.
"Letter to the Monks of Palestine," Philoxenus appeals to "Athanasius, Theophilus, the Gregories, John, Cyril and the blessed Ephrem"; and of course "John" refers to Chrysostom. >44 He is not mentioned by name in the manuscript before us, but in our analysis we have noted several parallels suggesting that Philoxenus not only knew the homilies of Chrysostom, but some of his expositions were influenced by themy?45
His apparent choice of Chrysostom as a model is very much in keeping with his strong preference for the principles of Antiochian exegesis.
CONCLUDING POSTSCRIPT
Since Wright published his Catalogue in 1872, British Museum Manuscript Add.
17,126 has usually been referred to as the "Fragments of the Commentaries of Philoxenus on the Gospels of S. Matthew and S. Luke," and the meaning of the term has been generally assumed to mean "exegetical commentary."
Our study has shown that the Philoxenian "commentary" was in the nature of a homiletical discourse based on a chosen text of scripture.
The original codex contained five homilies on texts selected from the first three chapters of Luke's Gospel.
Fragments of four of these are preserved in this manuscript, along with a fragment (no.
1) from a discourse on Matthew 18:22
(probably) and three fragments (nos.
3, 4, 5) from a polemic against the Nestorians.
Philoxenus was the author of all the fragments.
On the basis of our examination not only of this manuscript but also the remains of the other Philoxenian
"commentaries," we conclude that it is more accurate to speak of the "homilies" of Philoxenus on the Gospels.
Our analysis of all the scriptural quotations in these fragments confirms the general conclusions of Zuntz
(followed by Vodbus) that the Philoxenian version of the New Testament in 508 was a revision of the Peshitta, and that it in turn was revised by Thomas of Harkel in 616.
We have demonstrated the necessity of holding to a strict chronological sequence of Philoxenus' works in order to determine which deviations from the Peshitta may reasonably be regarded as belonging to the version of 508, and which to some other version such as an Old Syriac.
We have thus been able to isolate a few of the features of the lost Philoxenian.
But we recognize that the biblical quotations in all the writings of our author still need to be analyzed.
In this regard, ours has been merely a sounding, albeit an important one.
In spite of its fragmentary condition, this manuscript has proved to be of value in determining Philoxenus' method of biblical interpretation.
He adopted the method of the School
of Antioch and made it an expression of his theology.
While one fragmentary codex has been the focus of this dissertation, always looming in the background has been the much larger Book on Selected Passages from the Gospels
(British Museum Add.
14,534), produced during Philoxenus' lifetime in the same scriptorium at Mabbug.
Consisting of one hundred and ninety-nine folios, it is more than five times larger than the manuscript edited here and in much better condition, but it remains unedited.
Its publication and analysis is a challenge for future study.
THEOL RY 403 24 069
CLAREMONT, CALIF.
NOTES Wright, Catalogue, p-.- 526.
Wright's Short History of Syriac Literature, published twenty-two years later (i.e., in 1894) Maintained somewhat vaguely the same conclusion:
"Portions of his (Philoxenus') commentaries are contained in two mss. (i.e., Add.
17,126 and 14,534) in the British Museum."
(p. 74).
Wright, Catalogue, p. 526.
See ch.
3 below.
Budge, Discourses, II, p. xlix.
Baumstark, Fvangelienexegese.
IDtd ey POMNE2 $ Baumstark, Geschichte, pe
"Von seinen bedeutendsten literarischen Arbeiten eroffnet ein nur sehr unvollstandig erhaltener grosser Evangelienkommentar die -exegetische
Literatur des aramaischen Monophysitismus.'
Lebon, Philoxéntenne.
Ibid., p. 436.
Note:
"La version polycarpienne"
= the Philoxenian version.
10.
Zuntz, Harklean, p.
41.
LY.
Ditto.
Voobus, New Data, p. 178.
This study is substantially repeated in V6dbus, Farly, pp. 103-121, where he gives additional examples from the manuscript.
Voobus, Wew Data, p. 179.
Cf. Early, p. 111; and Studies, Dp.
1:98 £ 13.
14.
De Halleux, Vie.
Ibtdeyp4pps "18959
15.
Throughout this dissertation, the name "Philoxenus" is used because the monophysite bishop of Mabbug
(485-519) is most commonly known by it both in Syriac and Greek eee Less often, he is known as Aksenaia (ts) ܓ ܘ ܬ ܐܘ€ ܗ = eves=a stranger).
For a full discussion of the name, see de Halleux, Vite, pp.
9-12.
16.
Scholars have generally followed the Romanized spelling 17.
"Tahal" of Assemanus, 8. 0.
, II, p. 10, but the word appears as both in the Anonymous Notice on Phtloxenus in MS. Vat.
Syr.
155, fol.
5r, a - b (Vaschalde, Three Letters, p. 75) and in Eli of Qartamin's Memra on the Holy Mar Phtlozenus of Mabbug (ed. by A. de Halleux in C.S.C.0., C, pp.
2, 11, 33, 36, and 38).
De Halleux vacillates in his transcription of the word: in his French translation of the Memra (1963), he uses "Tahil"
(C.S.C.0.,
XCIX, p.
2); while in his biography of Philoxenus, he uses "Tahel"
(Vie [1963], p. 13).
A. Mingana, in his translation of a parallel Memra on Philoxenus, transcribes the word as "Tahl," but does not provide a copy of the text which he translated (New Documents, p. 151).
In order to retain some indication of the presence of the yudh in the spelling cited above (Nuyda), I have used the transcription "Tahil."
The modern identification of the village is unknown.
I would suggest that the village of Tarjil, ten kilometres south of Kirkuk in modern Iraq, may well be the same place.
18.
So Hoffman, Ausziuge, pp.
Hoffman's description is followed by Vaschalde, Three Letters, p.
3; by Duval, Littérature, map; by R. P.
G. Leveng in D.H.G.#z., VIII, cols.
1230-1; and by de Halleux, Vie, p. 13.
Mingana, New Documents, p. 151, fn.
1, is surely wrong in suggesting that the "Great Zab" was one of the boundaries of BethGarmai.
The Greater Zab was the northern boundary of the region of Adiabene (as Mingana, Farly Spread, p.
5, correctly notes), the neighbouring region to the north of Beth-Garmai.
19. Canon 21 of the Synod held at Seleucia-Ctesiphon in 410 under the presidency of the Catholicos, Isaac (Chabot, Synodtcon, p. 272).
20. Abbeloos, Acta, p.
35.
21. Zorell, Chronica, p. 28.
Mingana, Farly Spread, pp. 4-5, states:
"The date 225 is referred to in connection with the epoch-making year in which the first Sassanian king gained a decisive victory over Artaban, the last monarch of the Parthian dynasty."
22.
De Halleux, Vite, p.
13, fn.
13, summarizes the diversity of scholarly opinion as follows:
"Les modernes situent la naissance de Philoxéne au deuxieme quart du Ve siécle (Vaschalde, Three Letters, p.
3; Kruger, Philoxenos, p.
367), vers 440 (Rucker, Philoxenus, col.
248; Bergstrasser, Monophysttismus, p. 15, fn.
2), vers le lilieu du Ve siecle (Lebon, Christologie, p. 426, fn.
3) ou dans son troisieme quart (Budge, Discourses, II, p. xvii)."
23.
De Halleux, Memra, p.
2, 11.
39-44.
A similar passage is translated in Mingana, New Documents, p. 151, but it omits any reference to persecution as the reason for the migration of Philoxenus' family to Tur 'Abdin.
24. Mingana, New Documents, p. 151, claims that the cell was a
mile away from his home.
25.
Hoffman, Auszuge, pp.
53 ff., which is a German translation of the work published in Moesinger, Monumenta.
Sykes, History, I, p. 471, inaccurately gives the date of this persecution as "455 or 456."
Hoffman, Auszuge, p.
54.
26.
2h.
Sykes, Htstory, I, p. 471.
28.
De Urbina, Patrologia, p.
99, Assemanus B.0O., I, pp.
351 ff.
29), Assemanus, B.0., I, pp.
352-353.
30.
For text and French translation, see de Halleux, Senun. he De Halleux, Senun, versio, p. VI.
TDi dni, Pomlit.
33's The account of Philoxenus' early adoption of the ascetic life in Eli of Qartamin's Memra has the marks of pious legend connecting the name of a great monophysite with the establishing of the monastery of Qartamin.
Perhaps the kernel of truth in the legend is nothing more than Philoxenus' instinct as an adolescent to establish his personal independence.
34.
His brother, Addai, who also belonged to this minority, remains a shadowy figure.
The Memra (1.
35) states that Addai was a teacher in the village of Tahil, thus suggesting that he was older than Philoxenus.
Did Addai become a junior teacher or tutor in the Edessene school while Philoxenus was a student there?
The extant sources provide no answer.
According to Michael the Syrian, Philoxenus also had a sister whose son, named Philoxenus, became suffragan bishop of Doliche under his uncle in Mabbug (which was the metropolitan see).
See Michel, Chronique, IX, 29, p. 308
(cited by de Halleux, Vie,
See especially Voobus, Nisibis, pp. 13-30, on the "Character of the School of Edessa."
35.
Voobus, Nistbis, p.
14.
36.
It was because Hiba was identified with Theodore of Mopsuestia, and thus with Nestorius, that he was deposed as bishop of 449 (only to be reinstated by the Council of Chalcedon in 451).
37.
Voobus, Nisibis, pp.
20 f.
38.
De) Halleux, Vue, pb.
30,f+, in.
52, ".
» + LES notions d'aristotélisme et de sciences profanes que l'on rencontre dans ses oeuvres (par ex. dans le Commentatre de Jean I, 1317:
£. 477 —*59v., etc.) - "
Quoted by de Halleux, Vie, p.
29; cf. pp.
40.
Ibid., p.
30.
De Halleux goes so far as to call this reaction of Philoxenus a "conversion."
41.
So Theodorus Lector, Eeclestasticae Histortcae (Mtgna P.G., £+. 86, col.
216), Theophanes Abbas, Chronographta (Migne P.G., t.
108, cols.
325 f.), Evagrius Scholasticus, Histortae Eeclestasttcae, Bk.
III, ch. XVI (Mtgne P.G., £.
86, cols.
2657 £.
( , and Georgius Cendrinus, Histortarum Compendtum (Mtgne P.G., t.
121, col.
675).
42.
43.
De Halleux, Senun, 94:27
De Halleux, Vie, pp.
189-200, where de Halleux shows that five Philoxenian letters were written during this period.
44, Briere, Dissertattones, p. 452.
45.
Peter the Fuller had been deposed twice before.
He was a strong supporter of Zeno's Henottcon.
46.
De Halleux, Memra, 11.
In 1. 154, Eli of Qartamin states that he received the name Philoxenus on his elevation to the episcopacy (so also Assemanus, 8.0O., II, p. 10).
V6dbus, Legislation, p.
51, claims that Philoxenus was made chorepiscopus of Mabbug before becoming the bishop, citing "ms. sin. syr.
10, fol.
48a" as his authority, but he provides no further information.
In his discussion of Philoxenus' consecration, de Halleux, Vite, pp.
40 f., ignores the above-quoted source in V6dbus, Legtslatton.
Instead, he makes reference to a similar tradition in Chrontcon Anonymum 846, p. 200, but he feels that "rien ne permet de controler cette affirmation."
Mabbug (also transliterated Mabbogh, Mabug, Mabbog -- 47.
( was the Syriac name for Hierapolis, for a full account of which see Goosens, Hterapolis.
Honigmann, Eveques, pp.
66-75.
49.
Chrontcle 846, p. 220.
For more on Flavian II, patriarch of Antioch, see below.
Weight, Chrontere,) pe 21.
50.
51.
Why Philoxenus was in Edessa at that time, is not stated.
He was out of his own territory, which may partly explain his reticence to speak out against Edessan paganism.
It was the year when Cyr, bishop of Edessa, died.
Perhaps Philoxenus exercised some episcopal oversight during the interim period prior to the election of Cyr's successor,
Peter.
ܖ52 Budge, Discourses, II, p. l. xxiii.
53:
So Theophanes Abbas, Chronographia (Migne P.G., t. 108, @¢0331 3417.
54.
So Liberatusm(Mtgne,.P.sh.,-t.
68, col.
1030).
ܗ55 De Halleux, Vite, pp.
49 ff., gives a full account of the struggle.
Sykes, History, I, pp.
478 £. ; Vaschalde, Three Letters, p.
57.
De Hal 111 > ; ܝ£ £ ܇ ܝܝܐ+
=< ܥܐ ܨ2¿ 2 ܬ 58.
De Halleux, Vte, p. 76.
59.1
Zacharius, Life os Severus, p. 115.
60.
Cama :MCd At. AE ng Liye Day DIS 61.
De Halleux, Vie, pp. 217-223, dates the following letters in this period:
The Second Letter to the Monks of Teleda, A Letter in Defence of Ditoscurus (addressed to some monks), A Letter to All the Orthodox Monks of the East, A Letter to Simeon of Teleda, and A Letter to the Monks of Senun.
CE.
Vaschalde, Three Letters, p. 20.
62.
De Halleux, Vie, pp.
96-97, points out that Gangra is on the way to Philippopolis.
He considers the Chronicle of Se'ert, p. 139, to be correct in stating that Philippopolis was the place of Philoxenus' death.
This, de Halleux claims, is supported by the witness of two Philoxenian letters (To the Monks of Senun, and To Simeon of Teleda).
The traditional view that Philoxenus was asphyxiated in Gangra is supported by the Memra of Elt of Qartamin
(and the parallel document published by Mingana, New Documents), The Anonymous Notice (published by Vaschalde, Three Letters), and Zacharius Rhetor, Feel.
Hist., VIII:5.
This traditional view is followed by Assemanus (B8.0., II, pp.
19-20), Budge (Dise ourses, II, pp. xxv-xxvi), Vaschalde (Three Letters, pp.
19-20), and Honigmann (Fveques. p. 67).
63.
See above, p.
64.
Sykes, Htetory, I, p» 471.
Camb.
Med.
Hitst., I, p. 466.
65.
Sykes, History, I, pp.
437, 448, 468.
66.
Labourte, Chrtstiantsme, pp.
The exact date of the founding of the School of Nisibis is not known.
After discussing the problem fully, Vddbus, Nistbis, p. 41. concludes that the date was sometime after 571.
67.
Assuming the migration from Persia was in fact during the persecution of Yezdigird II in 446 as suggested in pp.
31.6: above.
68.
Sellars, Chalcedon, pp.
3-29.
69.
70.
222 tie =O.
E.g., Brit.
Mus.
Ms.
Add.
17,126, fol. 4r 20,21.
See also the list of Philoxenus' works in Budge, Discourses, II, 7 ܀ 7.137 43 Take Sellars, Chalcedon, p. 110.
72.
Ibid., pp.
97, 103.
Cam.
Med.
Hist., I, pp.
506 ff.
TESS Budge, Discourses, II, pp. xxxiii ff., has a translation of Philoxenus' statement anathematizing the Council of Chalcedon (the Syriac text is found in pp. xcviii ff.).
74.
Gambs Med.
Htst., Lp pp.
DES £:
75.
The Greek text of the Henoticon is given by Evagrius Scholasticus, Atset.
Heeles., III:14.
76.
Sellars, Chalcedon, p. 277.
2:73
Quoted in Budge, Discourses, II, p. xxxviii (translation) and p. cxxi (Syriac text).
78.
79.
2? 06601} Evagrius Scholasticus, Hist.
Eecles., III:32.
This document was deposited in the archives of the Church of St.
Sophia.
Later, Anastasius tried to secure it from Euphemius, but he refused to hand it over to the emperor.
This led to his being deposed from his see in 495 (So Theodorus Lector, Heeles.
Hist.
(Migne, P.G., t.
86, cols.
80.
17188 Ls):
Lebon, Monophysttisme, p.
41.
81.
Labourt, Chrtsttanisme, p. 158.
82.
Lebon, Monophysitisme, p. 44.
83.
Vasiliev, Justin, pp.
ff.
84.
Ibid., p. 135 et passim.
85.
86.
De Halleux, Memra, 1. 468, uses "Justinian"
(ܐܢܝܢܛܘܘܝ for "Justin."
As Vasiliev, Justin, p.
26, notes, this is "usual in Syriac Chronicles."
87.
Brit.
Mus. Add.
14,534 = Book on Selected Passages from the Gospels (unpublished), fol.
38 a-b.
See Appendix "A" for a copy of the text from which I have made this translation.
A French translation of part of this passage appears in de Halleux, Vte, p.
121, fn.
20.
He calls the manuscript "Commentaire de Jean 1:1-17."
Rom.
1:3 where the Peshitta reads:
shen den ܕܠܝܬܐ ܣܒܒ ܪ ܢܡ ܐܥ ̈ܪܙ It would appear that Philoxenus was explicitly taking issue with the Peshitta, both here and in what follows.
88.
89...
Matt.
1:1, where the Peshitta reads:
Matt.
1:18, where the Peshitta reads:
"50M Kiam ܗܕܠܝ ܢܝܕ ܥܘܫܝܖ ܐܝܢܝܫܡ Philoxenus' apparent invertion of the word order follows exactly the word order of the Greek.
Early in this Manuscript (Brit.
Mus. Add.
14,534), the author insists that the proper Syriac rendering of Yé€veoris
, ܘ ܝܝ ܘ and chides the translators for their careless use of ܘ ܝܠܝ ܐܐܝܳܗܐ and .ܐܕ ܠܝ These last two words render Yé€vvyee¢ ~.
In folio 3lb, he says he does not know why the translator should have used these words instead of yS aM.
In folio 32a, he suggests that the confusion comes because the two Greek words yéveets and yevy jets are similar; then, as de Halleux has observed (Vie, p., 22), he proceeds to confuse them himself!
In folio 34b, he writes:
"No one should think that it is irrelevant for us to consider here a matter which is on this subject, although we take issue with the translator; for (in saying), more than the truth which was written, he used words which he supposed suited the Syriac language, or which he thought proper to God, as if he knew more than He what things suited Him."
(See also de Halleux, Vie, p.
D227 eae CO hie 91, Brit.
Mus. Add.
14,534, fol.
39b.
92:
Assemanus, B.0O., II, p.
82.
Voobus, Wew Data, p. 173, fn. 28, does not believe that the Psalms were included in the new translation, but he does not say why.
He simply states:
"These words (i.e., "and of David") are between brackets because they seem to be, if not an interpolation, then a corruption."
94:
The colophon to the Harklean Gospels gives this date(= A.
Gr.
927).
See Hatch, Subscriptions, p. 149 ff., for full text of the subscription.
The date given by Gwynn, Remnants, p. xxii, is "A.
Gr.
(= A.D.
614)."
The translation of the colophon here given is based on Hatch's text.
Cf. Payne-Smith, Thesaurus.
See also Voobus, Early Verstons, p. 108, and New Data, p.
174.
96.
Voobus, New Data, pp.
170 ff., gives a useful summary of the variety of ways in which the colophon has been interpreted, ranging from White, Versto Philoxenta, who understood the colophon to mean that Thomas of Harkel merely copied the Philoxenian version to which he added marginal notes (thus claiming that the Harklean version
= the Philoxenian), to Gwynn, Remnants, who insisted that the surviving Harklean version was a thorough revision of the Philoxenian and quite different from it, and that the older version was lost except for the four Minor Catholic
Epistles and the Book of Revelation which he published.
It is noteworthy that the recent edition of the Greek New
Testament edited by Kurt Aland et al.
(1966), p. 3 assumes that Gwynn's conclusions are correct.
Bar Hebraeus, 0.
7. Seholta, p.
97.
De Halleux, Memra, 11. 130-134, claims that Philoxenus did the work of translation himself; but no other witness writes in this way, and Philoxenus' competence in Greek remains in some doubt (see de Halleux, Vie, p.
22070
99).
See above, p.
20.
Above, p.
20.
100.
101.
Above, p.
20.
102.
Above, p.
21.
Quoted in Gwynn, Remnants, p. xxxi, from Cod. Ambros. c. eye}.
103.
Ibid.
Ceriani identified fragments of a Syriac version of Isaiah as Philoxenian, but such an identification needs to be re-examined.
104.
Gwynn, Remnants, pxxxii, et passim; Apocalypse, pp.
105:
ܐ ܥܘܨ £6 The consensus of modern scholarly opinion is reflected in the recent edition of the Greek New Testament edited by Kurt Aland et al.
(1966), p. xxix, where the siglum "syrPh = Philoxenian (Gwynn)."
106.
Lebon, Phtloxénienne, pp.
415 ff.
De Halleux, Vie, p.
118, makes the same point.
107s I have also examined the Biblical quotations in Brit.
Mus.
Add.
15,534 (Book on Selected Passages from the Gospels) and have not found any quotations from the Minor Catholic
Epistles or Revelation.
108.
109.
It should be added, however, that Severus, who was the monophysite patriarch of Antioch during the last decade of Philoxenus' life, clearly regarded 2 Peter and 2 and 3 John as canonical, ascribing apostolic authority to them in his extant letters.
While these letters exist almost entirely in the Syriac version of Athanasius of Nisibis,
Severus wrote in Greek and his biblical quotations originally in Greek throw no light on the Syriac versions of his day.
He apparently adopted the western canon, though quotations from Jude and Revelation are lacking in his published letters.
For quotations from 2 Peter and 2 and 3 John, see Brooks, Letters, I (text), pp.
182, 257, 29682986302 3 0G pels 26,8394 eae Zuntz, Harklean N.T., p. 40.
Voobus, New Data, pp. 176 f.; Early Verstons, pp.
109 £.; and de Halleux, Vie, pp.
12:0 ste 110.
This abbreviates the title which Budge gives the work:
Three Discourses on the Trinity and the Inearnatton (Budge, Dtscourses, II, p.
(ii).
Vaschalde (Tractatus) called it Traectatus Tres de Trinttate et Incarnattone.
Both are translations of a Syriac title attached to the work, though apparently not original with Philoxenus. a a
Zuntz, for reasons not given, calls it De Uno et Trinitate (Harklean N.T., pp.
39-58).
De Halleux confuses matters further by naming it Le ltbre des sentences (Vte, pp.
240-6), for good reasons, however, which he states fully.
132.
Zuntz, Harklean N. fs, %ps 57% BU.
Op. ett., p.
41.
See also de Halleux,Vte, p. 120
Voobus, Studies, pp. 88-92, 197-201; New Data, pp.
169186; Early Verstons, pp.
103-121.
114.
See especially the statement in Budge, Discourses, II, pp. xcviii f. In his statement, "Against every Nestorian"
(op. ecit., pp. cxx ff.), he affirms the creeds of the Councils of Nicea and Constantinople, and the Henoticon.
The quotation from his Book on Selected Passages from the Gospels, folio 38 a-b, translated on pp.
20 f. above, illustrates this concern.
LUG.
Brit.
Mus.
Add.
17,126, the subject of the dissertation.
1 i fe Brit.
Mus. Add.
14,534.
The title I use here and throughout is based on the colophon which states:
"The end of the writing of this book on passages (or, perhaps, "topics") selected from the Evangelists and made by the holy Philoxenus, Bishop of Mabbug."
(The Syriac is quoted in Wright, Catalogue, p.
527, col.
2).
De Halleux calls this book "Commentaire de Jean 1:1-17."
118.
It should be added here that O.
H. Parry, Monastery (1895), p.
370, reported seeing a manuscript dated A.D.
1001 containing a "Commentary on the Gospels by Philoxenus and Abraham of Malatia" in the Monastery of Deir az-Za'faran near Mardin in modern Turkey
(cf. Badger, Nestorians, I, pp. 433-435).
De Halleux, Vie (1963), p.
128, refers to Parry's note, but without further comment.
V66bus, Kanon (1970), pp.
320-1, fn.
39, states that after considerable trouble he has been unable to find any trace of this manuscript.
There the matter stands.
Perhaps some day soon this monastery will open up its literary treasures (if, indeed, it has any) to the scrutiny of the scholarly world.
Assemanus;, Bs0.j 11; De 86 119.
De Halleux, Vie, p.
128.
In pp.
134-162, he provides the details which need not be repeated here.
120.
Ibid., pp.
128 ff.
Wright, Catalogue, p. 1000, col 2; indicates a fragmentary comment by Philoxenus on 1 John
5:6 in Brit.
Mus.
Add.
17,193, fol.
94b; but this does not L215
mean that a commentary on 1 John existed as Budge, Discourses, II, pp. xlixl, seems to imply.
Certainly he is overstating the evidence when he suggests that Philoxenus wrote a Commentary on the New Testament.
Moreover, de Halleux, Senun, I, pp. XII-XIII, has shown that the comment on 1 John 5:6 comes from Philoxenus'
Letter to the Monks of Senun (See Senun, I, p.
8, 11. 2-5).
De Halleux, Vite, pp.
134-162.
The question marks indicate de Halleux' uncertainty as to whether the Gospel reference used is the basis for the commentary cited.
In such cases he suggests alternative references.
Ibid., pp.
140 £. shoo 123.
-from Brit.
Mus.
Add.
14,613, fol.
162r = Add.
14,649 fol.
202va (on Matt.
3:1-16).
Similar statements are found in Brit.
Mus.
Add.
12,154, fol.
64r (Matt.
3:14-15, or 11:11); Mingana 9, p. 267a (Matt.
11:25-27 or 13:16-17 or 16:17); Vatican syr.
100, fol.
34ra (Matt.
22:29-32[2); Brit.
Mus.
Add.
12,155, fol.
78vb = Add.
14,532, fol.
74ra = Add.
14,538, fol.
113r (Matt.
26:36-44); and Brit. Mus.
Add.
17,193, fol.
97r (Matt.
17:1-8 or 27:45-53).
Brit. Mus.
Add. 12,154, fol.
50v, refers to chapter five (An ܢܡ ܐܫܝܪ - Matt.
2:1), chapter six ( 67 = Matt.
2:14-15), and chapter seven ( J = Matt.
3:1).
Mingana, syr.
9, p. 267, cited chapter twenty-two (San cates ܐܢܝܣܐܠܝܦ ܢܘܒܡܖ ܐܩܫܘܦܒ ܝܬܡܒ = Matt.
11:25-27 or 13:16-17 or 16:17).
Chapter twenty-nine is given as the source for two distinct. expository passages; which may, indeed, come from the same "chapter," since both are based on the Matthew passion narrative.
The first is found in three manuscripts which say that it is from "the second book":
Brit.
Mus.
Add.
12,155, fol.
78vb = Add.
14,532, fol.
74ra = Add.
14,538, fol.
The second is found in Brit.
Mus. Add. 17,193, fol. 97r-v ܐܫܝܪܢܒܪ ܣܘܢܘܣܙܟܠܝܦ > )ܢܡ Kexnd .
Brit.
Mus.
Add.
17,126, fol.
38v.
822 of Alexander = 4:10517
127.
Reference to Luke 2:7.
Brit.
Mus.
Add.
12,154, fol.
ܐܝ shisas ܢܕܡ Brit. Mus. Add. 12,154, fol.
49»: ܠܒܩܘܠܕ MSI ܢܡ ܐܫܝܪ hod ܢܡ wos eins ܇ܘܢܝܪܘܛܣܢ ܒܫܘܦ "ܐ The argument is weakened somewhat by the fact that one reference repeated in three manuscripts (see note 107 above) Speaks of the twenty-ninth chapter of the second book, while the fourth book of five chapters apparently covered either chs.
31-35 or 32-36 (or parts of Luke 2 and 3) leaving the "lost" third book to cover one or (at most) ܡܝܗܬܬܐܘ 128.
two chapters: so we are left assuming that books 1 and 2 together contained twenty-nine chapters, book 3 one or two chapters, and book 4 five chapters -- which patently is an unlikely distribution of chapters.
130.
Brite Muse sAdds L7,LZ6y;eLoL ys sev.
De Halleux, Vite, pp.
22, 120-123, 150-158, 285, 460, 462, 465, 470:
"Wright, Catalogue, .p..526,° statessthat:
Hit contains the Commentary of Philoxenus on selected passages of the Gospels, more especially on ch.
1:1-18 of the Gospel of S. John"
(see note 118 above).
Budge, Discourses, II, p.
1 (= roman 50), apparently relying on a quotation from the manuscript in Wright, loc. ett., speaks of "fragments of the Commentary on Saint John preserved in Add.
14,534, fol.
16a ff."
That quotation simply says:
"IT tell Diodore and Theodore to debate with the Arians from the words which are placed at the beginning of the book of John."
(Add. 14,534 fol.
16r -see Wright, Catalogue, Dp.
527)).
Eptd. ? ep.8is2- £32"
The manuscript is defective with the first three quires missing and the fourth imperfect (Wright, Catalogue, p.
526).
De Halleux, Vte, p. 151, reckons that the total number of folios missing from the beginning is between twenty-five and thirty-one.
33's The Syriac is quoted in Wright, Catalogue, p.
527.
134.
De Halleux, Vie, pp. 150-162.
135.
136. otd>, Bps.150% Ibid., pp. 158-161.
Bar Salibi's Commentary on John's Gospel is found in Vatican (Biblioteca Apostolica) syr.
155 and is unpublished and unavailable to me.
I have relied on de Halleux' description for my comments here.
See also Assemanus, Catalogue, III, p. 297.
137.
De Halleux, Vie, p. 159.
Brit.
Mus.
Add.
14,538, fol. 231¥ (Wright, Catalogue, p. 1005)! ܢܡ ܐ ̈ܪܡܐ݀ܡ ܒܕ ܡ ̄ܩܫܘܦܕ ܢܢܝܚܘܝܪ 138.
De Halleux, Vie, p. 161.
Brit.
Mus.
Add.
12,155, fol.
76r = Add.
14,532, fol.
67r = Add.
14,533, fol.
68r = Add.
14,538, fol.
110r (Wright, Catalogue, pp.
932, 960, 969):
De Halleux, Vie, pp. 161-162, finds these fragments in an Armenian work he calls "Sceau de la foi"
(= Knik' hawatoy, ed. by K. Ter Mkertc'ean).
I have been unable to consult this work, and rely on the information provided by de
Halleux.
140.
141.
Budge, Discourses, II, p. clxxi.
Cf. also. p. clv where Budge quotes from the Peshitta of Mark 10:15 to compare it with Philoxenus' quotation which varies from it.
The fact
is that the Peshitta of Luke 18:17 is closer to Philoxenus' citation than its Marcan equivalent.
142.
De Halleux, Senun, II, p.
82.
I.e., "Matthew-Luke"
(Brit.
Mus.
Add.
17,126) and "John 1:1-17"
(Add.
14,534).
143.
Vaschalde, Tractatus, p. 237
(176).
In the Three Letters, pp.
171 and 183, Vaschalde cites Mark 15:34 as being quoted by Philoxenus, but the equivalent in Matthew 27:46 could just as easily be his source.
144.
145.
So F.
C. Grant, "Gospel of Matthew," article in Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, III, p. 303.
H. B.
Swete, The Gospel According to St.
Mark, pp. xxxiv ff., believes that a low estimate of Mark (in comparison with the other three Gospels) existed from the second century, and was due in part to the view that Mark was merely an abridgement of Matthew.
The percentages are Streeter's (Four Gospels, p. 151).
Goodspeed (Matthew, p. 40) credits Streeter with an estimate of 95% rather than 90%, but provides no reference.
146.
147.
Payne-Smith, Thesaurus, II, col.
3327.
148.
Brit.
Mus. Add.
14,534.
See p.
20 above.
149.
Brit. Mus se Adda: %77 ;726 2 :95%# ;19 , 20 7e25er i isetss '281 241 and 32r 15.
150.
The colophon reads in part:
"In this book is a commentary ) ( ܒܫܘܦ ܐ of five chapters (xs) taken from the Evangelist, Luke .
The end of the fourth book of commentary of the Evangelists, Matthew and Luke, which was made by Philoxenus .
.."
(Brit.
Mus.
Ms. Add.
17,126, fol.
38v 11-15). ܘ ܐܥܝܡܫ 3 is not used in the contemporary colophon of the Book on Selected Passages of the Gospels,
Brit.
Mus. Add.
14,534.
15 Ns De Halleux, Vite, pp.
134-162.
152.
As has been shown above, the existence of Philoxenian commentary on John's Gospel has not been demonstrated.
The title of only one out of thirteen Johannine fragments uses the term "commentary," and it exists only in an Armenian translation (so de Halleux, Vie, p. 162) which is not available to the present writer.
De Halleux considers folios 11-13 of our document part of a Johannine commentary (tbitd., p. 150).
153.
So Oxford (Bodleian Library), Marsh 101, fol.
57r.
The same fragment occurs in two manuscripts in the Mingana collection, but in both it is said to come from a "section or an explanatory note"
(7§1N1) by Philoxenus (Mingana syr.
105, fol.
2215 = Mingana syr.
480, fol.
400v).
It should be stressed that this analysis takes de Halleux' account of the extant literature at face value.
The bare analysis indicates that that account must be modified.
154.
De Halleux, Vie, pp.
135 £. , where he designates this fragment as no.
5 of the Matthean Commentary.
155% The fragment in Brit. Mus.
Add.
14,613 is 23 pages long and each page has 22 lines.
156.
The folio numbers are those of the Brit.
Mus.
Add.
14,613.
L58% Brit.
Mus?
Add.
14,613) fol. ` 1:7292
Budge, Discourses, I, pp.
7 f., II, pp.
5 £.
359:
160.
Wright, Catalogue, p. 813, calls it "extracts from the commentary of Philoxenus of Mabbug on the Gospel of S.
Matthew" which merely expands the title given in the manuscript itself.
So Wright, Ethiopic, p. 201.
See also de Halleux, Vie, p.
137.
The manuscript is Brit. Mus.
Orient.
736.
161.
Brit.
Mus.
Orient.
731 and 732.
I depend here on Wright, Ethtopte, pp. 199-203.
Wright does not state whether the two later manuscripts, Orient.
735 and 734 (from the 18th and 19th centuries respectively), name Philoxenus or not.
According to de Halleux, Vie, p. 136, fn.
3, the colophon of Orient.
732 suggests that this catena was translated from Syriac into Arabic at the beginning of the llth century, and from Arabic into Ge'ez in the 16th century.
162.
Op. cit., p. 137.
I have to rely on this résumé since ct do not read Ethiopic.
3.63.
164.
T.e., PriteeMus.
Add, 17,1726.
I.e., Budge, Discourses, I, p.
620, II, p.
592.
165.
Budge, Discourses, I, pp.
431 ff., II, pp. 413-415.
166.
Ops etts, Pe 137167.
Brit.
Mus.
Add.
12,164 = Vatican Syr.
138.
The folios cited are those of Add.
12,164.
The subject of this work is "How One Person of the Holy Trinity Became Incarnate and Suffered for us."
(See Wright, Catalogue, pp.
527 f., Budge, Discourses, II, pp. li-lii, and de Halleux, Vite, pp.
225 ff.) This work is in ten memre, only two of which have been as yet published (with a Latin translation -see Briere, Dissertattiones).
168.
I.e., Budge, Discourses, I, pp.
249 ff., II, pp.
±+±£:
169.
Budge, Discourses, II, p. 240.
170.
Wright, Catalogue, pp.
976 ff.
De Halleux, View ps rls 7.
Why de Halleux feels it necessary to suggest Marr. 3:14-15 is not clear, for this passage is not mentioned in the fragment.
31022:
Budge, Discourses, I, pp.
300 ff.; II, pp.
287 ff.
The other parallel cited by de Halleux from Discourses, I, pp.
484 f., II, p. 463, is a comment on Matt.
9:14 ff. and is not directly relevant to the fragment before use.
173.
See Matthean fragments 10, 12, 13, 15, and 16, and Lucan fragment 3 in de Halleux, Vie, pp.
137-139 and 143.
I was unable to examine Matthean fragment 12 because it exists 174. in only one manuscript -- Vatican Syr.
100 -and it was unavailable to me.
Matthean fragment 13 is written in Karshuni with which I am not familiar, but I have tried to examine it as best I can.
Budge, Discourses, II, p. li, lists it as "an exposition on the parable of the ten talents."
Following de Halleux' schema (Vie, pp.
134 ff.), these fragments are Nos.
1, 2, and 3 of the proposed "introduction to the commentary," Nos.
2, 3, and 4 of the Matthean commentary, and Nos.
5 and 9 of the Lucan commentary.
L755.
LAGE P.
27 above.
1 ?2$ 3: (8142 «Sth ch.) 703) (6thach.), +4 -(72thveh:
( 9 ) 2:28338 ܀ ( },. 257
(29th ch. ble. (2athache) : 6@© 1 3 ( hS2ndach.), 9 (35th ch.), and 14.
See de Halleux, Vie, pp.
ff.
31776 Payne-Smith, Dictionary, p. 539.
178.
Budge has published the texts of the following:
Ten "Chapters" Against Those Who Divide Our Lord (Discourses, II, pp. c-civ), Twelve "Chapters" Agatnst Those Who Say There Are Two Natures tn Christ and One Person (Discourses, II, pp. civ-cxx), Spectal "Chapters" Against Every Nestortan (Dtscourses, II, pp. cxx-cxxiii), and Twenty "Chapters"
(= ) Agatnst Nestorius (Discourses, II, pp. cxxiii-cxxxvi).
De Halleux, Vite, pp.
181 ff., describes two more polemical works by Philoxenus which Budge only lists (Discourses, II, pp. liv-lv):
[Seven] Spectal "Chapters" ete.,and The First [Three] "Chapters" Against Herestes.
17:9
In ܨ title of the Twenty "Chapters" the Greek term 180.
ܒ occurs.
It also is used in the colophon of the Twenty "Chapters", illustrating the fact that it is synonymous with s€se.4.
181.
Budge, Discourses, II, pp. c-civ (text); partly translated on pp. xxxvi f.
The MS containing this work is dated A.D.
569.
2:02.
The quotation is from the LXX and not the MT or the Peshitta.
It is similar to but not identical with the Syro-Hexaplar.
183\.
A comparison of texts here is noteworthy:
Philoxenus here: ܦܠܚܬܫܐܘ ܢܘܗ ̈ܝܧܝܥܟܠ Peshitta Matthew 17:2 ܢܘܗܝܡܕܩ SAK
Peshitta Mark 9:2 ܘܗܝ aa Philoxenus uses the Greek wai49 where the Peshitta (as always) uses ®Q xa.
184.
So two MSS, Mingana syr.
480, fol.
400v, and 105, fol.
221lr.
A third containing the same text, Oxford, Marsh 101, fol.
57r, uses only the first word, x .4ag.
Evidently, the author of the title understood the two words to be synonymous, as his use of d&u3xKO shows.
185.
Mingana 105, fols.
22lv, 222r.
186.
De Halleux, Vie, p.
143.
187.
Brit.
Mus.
Add.
12,155 (8th century) = Add.
14,532 (8th century) = Add.
14,533 (8th-9th centuries) = Add.
14,538 (10th century).
See Wright, Catalogue, pp.
921 ff., 955 ££0) Vand 6967 "££. pcand®1003 ££:
188.
Wright, Catalogue, p.
937.
189.
Budge, Discourses, I, p.
190.
Lucan fragments 1 and 11.
De Halleux, Vie, pp.
142, 147.
191.
Ortiz, Patrologia, p. 159, simply lists this memra as a separate item under "Dogmatica."
: oF Soe ܣܘܢܣܟܠܝܦ ܗܦܐ ܙܒ ܐܦܘ Budge, Discourses, contains the text and translation of the thirteen extant discourses.
Part of the title quoted above is from op. ctt., I, p.
De Halleux, Vie, pp.
280-290, provides a list of all the extant copies of these discourses with a brief discussion of them.
The title uses the term KD -- a term which Philoxenus uses twice in the Prologue to describe these writings
(Budge, Discourses, I, pp.
10, 25) but each discourse is called a "memra" both in its title and in its concluding note.
De Halleux refers to these discourses as "Les memre parénétiques."
193.
Budge, Discourses, I, p.
10.
De Halleux, Vite, pp.
285 £.
194.
Budge, Discourses, I, pp. 14-15, and 25.
195.
This work is preserved in two MSS:
Vatican syr.
(which has the Syriac title translated here), and Brit.
Mus.
Add.
12,164.
Several fragments of the work also exist (see de Halleux, Vie, pp. 225-238).
The first two discourses (memre) have been published by Briere, Dissertattones.
The term ܪ = (volume) occurs at the end of the first discourse (Briere, op. ctt.,p.
491).
196%
For this reason, de Halleux, Vie, loc. ett., calls the work, "Memre contre Habib."
OM.
Following de Halleux, Vie, p. 227.
198.
Vaschalde, Three Letters, p.
94.
The letter is edited and translated in this book by Vaschalde.
See also de Halleux, Vie, pp.
189 ff.
199.
Brit.
Mus.
Add.
12,164, fols.
120v-125v; so de Halleux, Viel, app.
(225856.
200.
201.
See note 196 above.
Ibid., fols.
130r-141r.
A description of the MS is found in Wright, Catalogue, pp.
527 ff.
See also de Halleux, Vie, loe. ett.
202.
Edited with a Latin translation in Vaschalde, Tractatus Tres.
De Halleux, Vie, pp.
240 ff., calls it "Le livre des sentences" because the second and third memre are divided into numbered sub-sections called ta>% -- "sentences or maxims," which are between ten and thirty printed pages in length.
203.
De Halleux, Vie, pp.
241 f.
204.
See especially Zuntz, Harklean N.T., pp.
41-58.
205.
Edited with a German translation in Kruger, Annuntiatione.
206.
De Halleux, Vie, p. 142.
207.
Kruger, Annunttatione, p. 158, 1. 18.
208.
Wright, Catalogue, pp.
886 ff.
This MS (Add.
14,727) throws light on the use of the term asad, for it is applied to the homilies of some of the Fathers
(e.g., Cyril of Alexandria and John Chrysostom), and does not presuppose a "commentary" in any technical sense.
Similarly, this same MS contains a Philoxenian fragment "from the commentary (SsaxaQ¥) on the Gospel of Luke," but all the other patristic selections are from homilies
(cf. de Halleux, Vite, p. 144, where he takes this fragment as a commentary on Luke 2:24-39).
209.
Only de Halleux does so.
Budge, Discourses, II, p. lvi, lists it with other discourses.
Ortiz, Patrologta, p.
159, classifies it under the heading, "Dogmatica."
Baumstark, Geschichte, p. 143, calls it "eine Predigt."
210.
Edited with a French translation in Tanghe, Inhabitatton.
211.
212.
De Halleux, Vite, p. 276.
Budge, Discourses, II, p. lvi; Wright, Catalogue, p. 993; Baumstark, Geschichte, p. 143
("Abhandlung"); Tanghe, Inhabitatton, p. 50
(Memra) and de Halleux, Vite, p. 276
23.
(Memra) .
Tanghe, Inhabitatton, p.
57.
214.
Ortiz; Patrologta, p. 159.
De Halleux, Vien (309:
216.
53806 [9 «As 23:70
75742 90:54
££..
This work is very like the three Discourses on the Trinity and on the Incarnation"
(see note 203).
218.
75760 pep. 23886.
23190 See pp.
33 ff. above.
Budge, Discourses, II, Pp. ivy NO.
XVI, lists one polemical discourse "against the Nestorians and Eutychians" without giving any reference.
I have been unable to trace this work.
220.
For text, see Budge, Discourses, II, pp. cxxxvi ff.
De Halleux, Vie, p. 175, translates 5 ̈ܫܒܘܦ by "catalogue," but its root idea is that of "separating," or "setting apart."
227.
Budge, op.
¢tts, pl ecxxxvii, lejos of.
222.
The text is edited in Budge, Discourses, II, pp. xcviii f.
Edited text in Budge, Discourses, II, pp. xcvi ff.
The abrupt end to the fragment suggests that the whole text of the original was not quoted in the MS.
224.
Budge, Discourses, II, pp. lv f., lists a total of six confessions of faith (nos. XXII -XXVI).
De Halleux, Vite, pp.
168-178, discusses the genre and the Philoxenian fragments fully.
225.
Edited text in de Halleux, Memra, I, p.
8, 1. 195 fo
of Qartamin may have counted the two letters to the Monks of Teleda and the two letters to the monks of Beth Gogal as single volumes.
226.
Budge, Discourses, II, pp. lviii ff.
De Halleux, Vte. pp.
187-223 and 253-274.
The latter questions the authenticity of "une lettre sur les trois degres de la vie monastique"
(pp. 269-274).
227.
De Halleux, Vie, p. 188, has found references to four distinct Philoxenian letters none of which has been preserved even in fragmentary form.
228.
Fdited with a French translation in Lavenant, Patrictus.
229).
Edited with a French translation in de Halleux, Senun.
230.
Lavenant, Patrictus, p. 848, 11.
2-3.
231.
De Halleux, Senun, pp.
1-2.
Here Philoxenus quotes from Acts 14:22.
232.
Enough letters have been published to justify the generalizations made in this section; viz., "First Letter to the Monks of Beth-Gogal,"
"Letter to Monks,"
"Letter to Zeno"
(all in Vaschalde, Three Letters), "First Letter to the Monks of Teleda"
(in Guidi, Tell 'Adda), "Letter to the Monks of Amid"
-a fragment (in Voobus, Legislation), "Letter to Abu Nafir"
(in Mingana, Farly Spread), "Letter to Monks in Palestine,"
"Prefatory Letter to the 'Synodicon' of Ephesus"
-- two fragments (in de Halleux, Textes, I), "Letter to the Orthodox Monks of the East"
-in six fragments (fragments 1-3 in Lebon, Textes, and fragments 4-6 in de Halleux, Textes II), "Letter to Maron, the Lector, of Anazarba,"
"Letter to Monks on Behalf of Dioscorus"
-a fragment, "Letter to Simon, the Archimandrite of Teleda"
-in four fragments (in Lebon, Textes), "Letter to the Monks of Senun"
(in de Halleux, Senun), "Letter to Patricius"
(in Lavenant, Patrtcius), "Letter to Abraham and Orestes"
(in Frothingham, Bar Sudaylt), "Letter to a Novice"
(in Olinder, Novice), "Letter to a Convert from Judaism"
(translation only in Albert, Jutf), and "Letter to a Lawyer Who Has Become a Monk"
(translation only in Graffin, Avocat).
233.
.234
For text, see de Halleux, Senun, pp.
55-61.
ܕ2:35
For text, see Lavenant, Patrictus, p.
128.
236.
De Halleux, Vite, p.
254.
I have chosen these two letters as examples because they are complete, and each represents one or the other of Philoxenus' two major themes in his writings -- right doctrine, and strict asceticism.
Assemanus, B.0., II, p.
24; Budge, Discourses, II, pp. lvii ff£.; de Halleux, Vie, pp.
293 ff.
De Halleux points out that several of the prayers listed by Budge are duplicates of one another.
Ortiz, Patrologia, p. 160.
This work was published in 1965, while de Halleux, Vie, was published in 1963.
238% 239.
Assemanus, B.O., II, pp.
24 £.; Budge, Discourses, II, pp.
1l-1i; de Halleux, Vie, pp.
303 ff.; Raes, Anaphorae, I p. 1337:
, 240.
Budge, Discourses, II, p. lxiv.
The footnote on this item is misnumbered, the correct one being no.
1 on the opposite page.
De Halleux concludes:
"Il ne semble pas que l'eveque de Mabbog ait jamais écrit autrement qu'en prose."
Voobus, Legislation, pp. 51-54.
241.
242.
De Halleux, Vie, pp.
197 £.
243.
See note 118 above.
244, Wright, Catalogue, p. iv.
245.
Tbta. 7 ps Mave Cureton, Athanasius, p. xiii.
Cureton had described the deplorable condition of some 315 MSS acquired by H. Tattam five years before:
"The manuscripts arrived in the British Museum on the lst of March, 1843.
Upon opening the cases very few only of the volumes were found to be in a perfect state.
From some the beginning was torn away, from some the end, from others both the beginning and the end; some had fallen to pieces into loose quires, many were completely broken up into separate leaves, and all these blended together.
Nearly two hundred volumes of manuscripts, torn into separate leaves, and mixed up together by time and chance more completely than the greatest ingenuity could have effected, presented a spectacle of confusion which at first seemed almost to preclude hope.
To select from this mass such loose fragments as belonged to those manuscripts which were imperfect, and to separate the rest, and collect them into volumes, was the labour of months.
To arrange all those leaves now collected into volumes, in their proper consecutive order, will be the labour of years.
Without the aid either of pagination or catchwords, it will be requisite to read almost every leaf, and not only to read it, but to study accurately the context, so as to seize the full sense of the author.
Where there are two copies of the same book, or where it is the translation of some Greek work still existing, this labour will be in some measure diminished; but in other instances nothing less than the most careful perusal of every leaf will render it possible to arrange the work, and make it complete."
246.
In July, 1971, I spent three weeks in the British Museum examining this MS and others related to it.
I am grateful to the Museum Director and his staff in the Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts for the many courtesies extended to me at that time.
247.
These numbers and the few other extraneous notes do not, of course, appear in the edited text here presented.
248.
These tiny numbers seem to be in the same hand as the 249.
"stroked-out" sets, but their size (about 1/16 inch high) prevents them from being compared with absolute certainty with the other figures (about % inch high).
Wright, Catalogue, p. xxxiii.
250.
De Halleux, Vie, p. 145, fn.
11, disputes the existence of this yudh to which Wright, Catalogue, p. 526, refers.
An examination of the MS confirmed its existence.
Fragment 14 is, therefore, the last quire of the original volume since it concludes with the colophon.
251.
Wright, Catalogue, p.
526, Brit.
Mus.
Add.
14,534 = The Book on Selected Passages from the Gospels.
252.
De Halleux, Vie, p.
150.
253.
The colophon of Add.
14,534 does not state where or when the manuscript was written, but it has so many things in common with Add.
17,126 that we must conclude that it also was written in Mabbug at the beginning of the sixth century.
As de Halleux, Vie, p.
151, notes, the lower part of the last folio of Add.
14,534 has been torn off.
It may have contained a colophon stating the place and time of writing.
254.
The "silver" may have been some other colour when it was penned.
This punctuation mark differs in Fragment 5 (13r 4 and 17, and 13v 4), where in all three occurrences it appears as /.,.M../ -a further indication that this fragment does not belong in the MS.
2.55
256.
See Appendix B for untouched copies of three typical pages.
8:5720
Where there is a gap in the text and no square brackets, it simply means that the gap was original to it and nothing is lost.
The gap is there either because of the scribal tradition requiring the last word of every line to end at the left margin (e.f., folio lr, 11, 12), or because of a natural hole originally in the vellum
(e.g., folio 18r and v, middle of 1. 1).
258.
Wright, Catalogue, p.
526.
38v 14 ff.
260.
See p.
47 above.
Wright, Catalogue, p.
526.
261.
262.
De Halleux, Vie, p.
149.
263.
PaLRn S40.
1, (COM. a1 Of 264.
Comparisons of Biblical texts quoted in this MS with Syriac versions will be made in the next chapter.
Olinder, Frtend, p. 12.
See also Vodbus, Studies, p. 197.
De Halleux, Vie, pp.
269-274, questions the authenticity of this letter, but leaves the matter open.
The unusual form of this quotation from Matthew favours a Philoxenian authorship.
The Philoxenian works examined for the purpose of this dissertation are all the published discourses, letters, and other fragments (see bibliography), and the unpublished fragmentary "commentaries" discussed in ch. l.
265.
266.
Patr.
Syr.
III, cols.
120, 276, 425.
Col.
41 reverses the word-order:
Col.
explicitly states that the number is 490!
267.
Leloir, L'Rvangile,
PP. <" ܆35%=36
277, 268.
Loe.
£ $; $ 16 6 269.
Budge, Discourses, I, p. 140
(on John 21:15
= Curetonian.
Peshitta and Greek add "Peter"), p.
(on Marr.
17:24-27 = Curetonian.
Peshitta and Greek read "Peter" in v.
ands"™Samon" in v.27), -D.
317.
(on Matt.
19:27; Curetonian has "Simon Peter" and Peshitta and Greek have "Peter), and p-
(on John 6:68; Greek text and Syriac versions read "Simon Peter").
This preference for "Simon" is also seen in citations from Acts (Discourses, I, p.
486; see also p.
132).
Philoxenus apparently never used ܗܼܦܟ for "Peter"
(which is the rule in the Peshitta), but always ܣܘܪܛܰܦ (see de Halleux, Senun, pp.
31, 32, 77-78; Budge, Discourses, I, p.
600 -the last refers to 1 Peter which the Peshitta also designates by ܣܘܪܨܛܦ ).
In the quotation from Matt.
16:16 ff. in Senun, pp.
77-78, Philoxenus deliberately avoids the use of the term ܐܦܐܟ and in its place uses s&Nax which seems to play on the sound of the word imax. ܐ ܐ ܥܘܫܝ this context is not found in any of the Syriac versions, though they use it elsewhere (e.g., Matt.
7:24, 13:5, Mark 15:46, Acts 27:29).
De Orattone (P.L.I., col.
1163).
Origen, Matthew, XIV:5, also relates the two texts to one another and understands in both "seventy-seven times," but says the meaning is obscure.
270.
Some examples of this paraphrastic style of exegesis are found in Budge, Discourses, I, p. 228
(on Matt.
5:24), pp.
251=252 .(on-Jobn 224), pps 227-27 3« (OneMatt.«11228) ,app484-485 (on Matt.
9:14), and p. 556
(on Matt.
5:28).
271.
This verse is quite different in the Peshitta, and is missing in the available Hebrew text.
22:23:
Cf. the collection of rabbinic comments in Kasher, Encyclopedia I, pp.
158 ff.
Josephus, Antiquities, 1:58, merely says that God "threatened to punish his posterity
in the seventh generation."
Patristic commentators throw no light on this passage in Philoxenus (cf., e.g., Chrysostom on Genesis in P.G., LIII, col.
166, where seven sins of Cain are enumerated).
See Kasher and Josephus, loc. ctt.
274.
Genesisa2s1L5ose3323,5) 24.
275% Burkitt, Evangelion, II, p. 138.
The Sinaitic and Peshitta versions read "Paradise,"
Leloir, Diatessaron, p.
96--aPatry¢Syrs 1, ܇ © © 9% 628 491037, 276.
In both the Ceriani and Nestorian (Trinitarian Bible Society) editions.
277.
De Halleux, Vie, p. 149, makes this statement concerning the last fragment (folios 33-38), but by inference he seems to suggest that it applies also to this first fragment since he would place it immediately before the 278.
last in his scheme of rearranging the fragments.
279% See colophon, 38v 11, 12.
280.
See p.
46 above.
Of 21 quires in Add.
14,534, 18 have 10 folios each,
have 8 each, and the last quire has 4.
281.
Except codex Laudianus and codices 383 and 614 (see Clark, Actes; perl2).
Vaschalde, Tractatus, p. 187
(text).
Justin Martyr, Apologia 1.26.6, understood Simon Magus to be possessed by demons and links his name with Menander and Marcion, heretics who flourished in his time.
Eusebius, Church History, II, 13, 1-8, said that Simon was the author of all heresy, which is what this fragment indicates.
Frothingham, Bar Sudaylti, p.
30.
285.
286.
Vaschalde, Tractatus, p. 205
(text).
287.
Budge, Discourses, II, pp. cxxxvi ff.
See also above and note 221.
The text and Latin translation of only two of the ten discourses have been published in Briére, Dissertationes
288.
(see pp.
16, 24, 47, 95, and 103).
The others are as yet unavailable.
289.
Vaschalde, Three Letters, pp.
149, 159, 160 respectively.
290.
Vaschalde, Three Letters, p. 179, also translates by "likeness."
20% Smith, Exegesis, I, pp. 300-309 and 321-351, gives catenae of quotations from ante-Nicene writers on the subject.
The following quotation from Hegemonius (as quoted in Smith, op. ett., p. 209) is suggestive of the background:
"Archelaus quotes these verses as a proof that Jesus was truly born of the Virgin -- not simply appearing as a man while not being man.
Manes replies that if He is simply a man born of Mary, and received by the Spirit in baptism, He will appear to be Son by advancement and not by nature.
If to speak of Him as man means He was truly man of flesh and blood, then the Spirit Who appeared as a dove will be a literal dove.
Archelaus replies that a true dove will not enter a true man; Jesus is true man, the Spirit was only 'as a dove'."
In his "Letter to Zeno," Philoxenus makes reference to the same theme:
"The Son was baptized as a man and not in the likeness (of a man).
It was the Holy Spirit who possessed the likeness of a dove."
(Vaschalde, Three Letters, p. 169).
292.
We quote the following paragraph from Chrysostom's sermon on John 1:28,
(Homily XVII in Marriott's translation published in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
(first series vol.
XIV, New York, 1890, pp.
60-61) because it not only throws light on this statement but also on the development of the argument in this fragment:
"But," says one, "how then did not the Jews believe? for it was not John only that saw the Spirit in the likeness of a dove."
It was, because, even if they did see, such things require not only the eyes of the body, but more than these, the vision of the understanding, to prevent men from supposing the whole to be a vain illusion.
For if when they saw Him working wonders, touching with His own hands the sick and the dead, and so bringing them back to life, and health, they were so drunk with malice as to declare the contrary of what they say; how could they shake off their unbelief by the descent of the Spirit only?
And some say, that they did not all see it, but only John and those of them who were better disposed.
Because, even though it were possible with fleshly eyes to see the Spirit descending as in the likeness of a dove, still not for this was it absolutely necessary that the circumstance should be visible to all.
For Zacharias saw many things in a sensible form, as did Daniel and Ezekiel, and had none to share in what they saw; Moses also saw many things such as none other hath seen; nor did all the disciples enjoy the view of the Transfiguration on the mount, nor did they all alike behold Him at the time of the Resurrection.
And this Luke plainly shows, when he says, that He showed Himself "to witnesses chosen before sof God."
(Acts X.
41) 293.
De Halleux, Vie, p. 320, fn.
De Halleux calls the Ten Discourses "Memre contre Habib."
This quotation is taken from the tenth discourse which remains unpublished.
ܐܟܐܠܡ ܫܒܠܘ ܪܝܓ ܐܘܗ ܠܫKbaws ܕܟ pods ,294 -- Kruger, Annunttattone, p. 159.
295.
See p.
182 above on 4r 23-26 and 4r 27.
296.
E.g., in his "Letter to the Monks of Beth-Gogal":
"The disciple who does not confess that the Impassible One suffered, and the Immortal One died for us, is pagan and not a disciple."
(Vaschalde, Three Letters. p. 153).
Cf. the longer statement in his "Letter to Zeno"
(op. ett., pe 170)% 297. Quoted from the title of the work as printed in Budge, Discourses, II, pp. liv-lv.
(See also de Halleux, Vie, Pp.
LISP cr.) 298.
See p.
47 above.
299.
E.g., in the "Letter to the Monks of Senun," Philoxenus speaks of Diodore and Theodore as the teachers of Nestorius (de Halleux, Senun, p. 95).
The same term (#~AX 29%) is used in his "Letter to Zeno"
(Vaschalde, Three Letters, p. 165):
"I see with the eye of faith a spiritual being who without changing became a physical being.
Mary gave birth, not to a compostte being as Nestorius has said, but to the Only-Begotten, Incarnate One, who is not half God and half man, but completely God because He is of the Father and completely man because He came into being by the Virgin."
300.
The slight change in writing may simply be due to the limitations imposed by writing over an erasure; e.g., the ink tends to blot or spread more readily on the erased surface, so the scribe makes allowances by writin somewhat larger.
The variant form of the waw may ܐܥ fact be a small blot which causes the right end of the letter tor turnsto the lett ==" Oeion a F
But see his two eucharistic prayers, one of which begins, "I carry you, O living God, for you have become embodied in bread"
(Budge, Discourses, II, p.
1, Wright, Catalogue, p.
124, de Halleux, Vie, pp.
285 £.); also, his references to the Eucharist in "Letters to the Monks of Senun"
(de Halleux, Senun, I, pp.
5, 6, 8, 9).
-In his "Letter 'to Monks," Philoxenus writes, ".
. not tangible, we handle Him; not capable of being eaten, we eat Him; not capable of being tasted, we drink Him."
(Vaschalde, Three Letters, p. 140.) 302%
This is also the tradition of Vulgate, and it is that which is translated in the New English Bible (see R. V.
Tasker, The Greek New Testament [Oxford, 1964], p. 177).
304.
Philoxenus nowhere cites 1 Corinthians 2:14, but in Senun (de Halleux), p.
70, he quotes 1 Corinthians 2:12-13.
305.
De Halleux, Senun, pp.
3-4.
I.e., word ܐ ܐܗܠ .
In this MS the phrase ܐܗܠܐ 306.
ܐܘ ܠܡ Often occurs.
807.
See pp.
29 f. above.
308.
De Halleux, Senun, p.
Cf.
26r 14, 18 of the MS before us.
3 09 See pp.
f£f. and 33 f. above.
De Halleux, Vie, p.
150, considered them part of a commentary on John 1:14
(following Wright's suggestion in his Catalogue, p. 526).
This fifth fragment has John 20:19 and 26 as its biblical basis for the polemic and not John 1:14.
310.
See those listed in de Halleux, Vie, pp.
134, 135, 144,
S115 De Halleux, Senun, p.
46.
While the statement in the Apostles'
Creed, "He descended into hell," was not added until about the beginning of the sixth century, it was part of the creedal language of the Syriac Church much
earlier.
J. N. D. Kelly in his Barly Christian Creeds (p. 379) writes:
"There is a good deal of evidence pointing to the probability that the Descent figured very early in Eastern creed material," and he goes on to cite the doxology of the Syriac Didascalia and the homilies of Aphrahat.
Tanghe, Inhabitation, pp.
46 f.
37:2.
See p.
180 above.
Tanghe, Inhabitation, p. 62, fn.
29, has pointed out that in this Philoxenus differs from Aphrahat:
"Pour Aphraate, nier Dieu c'est ne pas ses commandements."
314.
Eptde, pe OF, LNs Ls 315.
Vaschalde, Tractatus, p.
67, and Budge, Ditseourses, I, Pp.
139.
- 316.
Budge, loc. cit.
33170 Vaschalde, Three Letters, p.
154.
A similar identification is found in his "Letter to the Monks of Senun."
After quoting Luke 1:34-35, he writes:
"Tf then the Lord, who was both the Word of God and the Son of God, the Power of the Most High and the Holy One, came into being with Mary, how can Jesus who was born of the Virgin
Mary to be other than the Word of God?"
(de Halleux, Senun, p.
60).
318.
The "résumé" of Fragment 8 in de Halleux, Vie, p. 146, is quite irrelevant (we quote it in full):
"En,Luc,. f1, 52, Jésus est sorti de l'enfance ( , de sept a douze ans), dans laquelle il se trouvait encore en Luc, II, 40."
Whether this fragment belongs with Fragment 10 (as he suggests) will also be considered later.
In his prologue to the Discourses, Philoxenus writes:
"The disciple of God therefore shall seek to have the remembrance of his Master Jesus Christ fixed in his soul and to meditate on it day and night."
(Budge, op. ctt., I, p6, Il, p. 4)+
CE, €+9-4
OP232 53:2
on Christ's fasting in the wilderness.
320.
Or, did Philoxenus understand John the Baptist to have lived in more than one desert (c£. Luke 3:2-3)?
321.
See the next chapter for a comparison, with the Peshitta.
De Halleux, Vie, pp. 284-285.
His references in brackets are to Budge, Discourses, I.
323.
A heth at the foot of folio 19r marks the beginning of the guire and a teth occurs in the same position on 29r, indicating that folios 19-28 form a complete quire.
324.
This assumption is based not only on the size of quire 325.
heth, but also on the fact that Brit. Mus. Add. 14,534 (Book on Selected Passages from the Gospels) consists of eighteen quires of ten folios each and only two quires of eight folios each (the first quire has four folios), and it has close affinities with our manuscript.
326.
Philoxenus refers to the "blessed,"
"great" and "renowned"
Athanasius some twelve times in his "Letter to the Monks of Senun"
(de Halleux, Senun).
In his Ten Discourses on the One Person of the Trinity, etc., he cites Athanasius eight times (so de Halleux, Vie, p. 233).
327.
See also 10r 8, 12r 24, l6v 4.
328.
As translated in Hill, Diatessaron, pp.
179-180.
329:
Tanghe, Inhabttatton, p.
56.
We note in passing that in the fragment before us Philoxenus cites "the prophets" as the source of this quotation from the Psalter!
The Hebrew reads 71517251 U 1X5 JSS, where the singular 330.
is like Philoxenus' singular phrase.
However, the quotation as found in his "Letter"
= Peshitta (which = Greek) except that the Peshitta reads ܢܗܠܵܗ for ̈ܵܗܠܐܡ ܐ in the "Letter" and also here in 2lv 14 and 22r 17.
Vaschalde, Tractatus; I, pps
95, "E77,
#212.
332% Ntecene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol.
4, p. 422.
The context of this quotation is in part as follows:
"Now Luke says, 'And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in grace with God and man'.
This then is the passage, and since they stumble in it, we are compelled to ask them, like the Pharisees and the Sadducees, of the person concerning whom Luke speaks.
And the case stands thus.
Is Jesus Christ man, as all other men, or is He God bearing flesh?
If then He is an ordinary man as the rest, then let Him, as a man, advance; this however is the sentiment of the Samosatene, which virtually indeed you entertain also, though in name you deny it because of men.
But if He be God bearing flesh, as He truly is, and 'the Word became flesh', and being God descended upon earth, what advance had He who existed equal to God? or how had the Son increase, being ever in the Father?
For if He who was ever in the Father, advanced, what, I ask, is there beyond the Father from which His advance might be made?
Next it is suitable here to repeat what was said upon the point of His receiving and being glorified.
If He advanced when He became man, it is plain that before He became man, He was imperfect; and rather the flesh became to Him a cause of perfection than He to the flesh.
And again, if as being the Word, He advances, what has He more to become than Word and Wisdom and Son and God's Power?
For the Word is all these.
How did Wisdom advance in wisdom? or how did He who to others gives grace (as Paul says in every Epistle, knowing that through Him grace is given, 'The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all'), how did He advance in grace? for either let them
say that the Apostle is untrue, and presume to say that the Son is not Wisdom, or else if Hé is Wisdom as Solomon said, and if Paul wrote, 'Christ God's Power and God's Wisdom', of what advance did Wisdom admit further?
To men then belongs advance; but the Son of God, since He could not advance, being perfect in the Father, humbled Himself for us, that in His humbling we on the other hand might be able to increase.
And our increase is no other than the renouncing things sensible, and coming to the Word Himself; since His humbling is nothing else than His taking our flesh.
It was not then the Word, considered as the Word, who advanced; who is perfect from the perfect Father, who needs nothing, nay brings forward others to an advance; but humanly is He here also said to advance, since advance belongs to man.
Hence the Evangelist, speaking with cautious exactness, has mentioned stature in the advance; but being Word and God He is not measured by stature, which belongs to bodges.
= = « '
Thus, the body increasing in stature, there developed in it the manifestation of the Godhead also, and to all was it displayed that the body was God's Temple, and that God was in the body.
And if they urge, that 'The Word become flesh' is called Jesus, and refer to Him the term 'advanced', they must be told that neither does this impair the Father's Light, which is the Son, but that it still shews that the Word has become man,: and bore true flesh.
And as we said that He suffered in the flesh, and hungered in the flesh, and was fatigued in the flesh, so also reasonably may He be said to have advanced in the flesh.
. Neither then was the advance the Word's, nor was the flesh Wisdom, but the flesh became the body of Wisdom.
Therefore, as we have already said, not Wisdom, as Wisdom, advanced in respect of Itself; but the manhood advanced in Wisdom, transcending by degrees human nature, and being defiled, and becoming and appearing to all as the organ of Wisdom for the operation and the shining forth of the Godhead.
Wherefore neither said he, 'The Word advanced', but Jesus, by which Name the Lord was called when He became man; so that the advance is of the human nature in such wise as we explained above."
(Ibid., pp. 421-422).
Cf. his attack on Chalcedon in his "Confession of Faith 333.
. Against the Council of Chalcedon"
(Budge, Discourses, ܘ Vaschalde, Three Letters, p18h. 334.
See note 332 above.
335.6
These controversial texts include Psalm 45:7-8 (ch.
12), Prov.
8:22
(chs.
16-22), Matt.
171: 27 ehCDenl!
Mnehebhetatse (ch.
28), Luke 2:52
(ch.
28), John 10:30
(ch, 25), 14:10
(ch.
23), 17:3
(ch. 24), Acts 2236 (eh. 15( paket.
229-10 (ch.
11), Hebrews 1:4
(che. 13) puandeac2e(ch.asl4)i. . The numbering of the chapters is continuous through the four
336.
"Discourses Against the Arians"
(English edition in the
Library of Ntcene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol.
4, New York, 1892).
De Halleux, Vie, p. 148.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, ser.
1, vol.
10, pp.
10 £.
I have been unable to find a trace of such a 'literal' interpretation in rabbinic or patristic literature.
In his seventh Discourse (Budge, pp.
185 £.
( , he uses the example of Jacob's ladder to illustrate the ascending experience of the man who has devoted himself to the ascetic life.
339).
It may be too that ܡܝܝܢܠ suggests wll ܐܡܝܢܠ of John 6:35, 41, which "came down" )ܠܝܢܥܢ ( from heaven.
340.
341.
Are Se 20S r Zoe or 8S 207 94? 2077
342.
Nteene and Post-Ntcene Fathers, ser. i, vol.
10, p.
10.
Epc, oDem 795 343.
344, The present order may be due to the fact that Fragment
contains phrasing which is repeated at the beginning of Fragment 14 (cf.
32r 17-18 with 33r 8-10).
There is no apparent reason for the unexplained sequence in de Hatleux, Vie; p. L48"tite.;, 03, 12) Pl) #*untess es that Fragment 11 refers to Seth, Enoch, etc., and Fragment
also deals with these names.
345.
See p. 46 above.
346.
An exact copy of all parts of the colophon is found in Wright, Catalogue, p. 526.
347.
Cf£. Peshitta and Old Syriac of John 1:14.
348.
The Greek New Testament (ed. by K. Aland et al., United Bible Societies, 1966), p. 214, cites four secondary witnesses to the use of the third person singular in Luke
3:22.
They are a 14th century Greek MS (1475), one Bohairic MS, the Diatessaron and the Acts of Pilate.
349, See the comment on the quotation from Rom.
8:29 in the ch.
4 where it becomes clear that the expression must have belonged to the Philoxenian version.
350.
CE. pp. 17
8a. Sabove.
350% Cf. p. 178 above.
De Halleux, Vie, p. 149, suggests that Fragment 1 be placed immediately before Fragment 14, but it cannot possibly fit there and, indeed, must be from another work altogether.
352.
Cf. the long discussion on "La mort de Dieu" in de Halleux, Vie, pp.
484-505.
353% Payne-Smith, Thesaurus, I, col.
289, "ars medendi, medicina .
. sanatio."
Cf. pp.
29 and 33 above.
354.
Nine quires of ten folios each, and the last quire with Six folios.
See pp. 268f. above for the details.
355% See pp.
ff. above.
356.
See P190 above.
Sie is 358.
Cf. p.
192 above where we suggested that Fragment 8 may have belonged to some other work.
14r 27 - 14r 5.
The reference to growth "in the Spirit" recalls Luke 2:40
(rather than 2:52) where the Peshitta
a, reads ܡܠܚܐ
De Halleux, Vie, pp.
147-148.
That evidence turns on the existence of the quire number ~» at the foot of folio 33r, which we reaffirm with Wright, Catalogue, p. 525, is clearly discernible in spite of de Halleux's statement to the contrary.
See note 251 above.
See Exhibit 39 in ch.
4 for a complete list of known citations in the Philoxenian corpus.
362.
Kruger, Annuntiattione.
363.
As de Halleux, Vie, pp. 142-143, maintains.
364.
Bar-Salibi, W.7.
Commentartes (on Luke), pp.
241 and 248, Bar-Hebraeus, Sanctuary Lamp, Base VIII, ܒܥ ܐ. - sx.
385% Budge, Discourses, II, pp. ix-x.
366.
See our discussion above, pp.
19-24.
367.
Zuntz, Harklean y.T., pp.
40-62.
368.
369) = Vaschalde, Tractatus.
Zuntz, op. ctt., p. 41:
"It is tempting to test one work of Philoxenus before all others; viz., the fragments of his commentary on the Gospels.
They are preserved in two manuscripts in the British Museum, written in Mabbug, one of them certainly (A.D. 510/11), the other probably, during his episcopate and after the completion of Polycarp's version."
(He is referring to Add.
17,126 and Add.
14,534 respectively.) 370.
Voobus, New Data, pp.
176 ff.
(where he focuses on Johannine quotations from Add.
14,534), and Farly Versions, pp.
109 ff. and 197 ff.
371.
I have used the editions in Lagarde, Syro-Hexaplar, and in Middeldorpf, Syro-Hexaplar.
The photo-lithographic edition of Codex Syro-Hexaplaris Ambrostanus published by A.
M. Ceriani (Milan, 1874) was unavailable to me.
For the Old Testament, I have used Ceriani, 0.7.
Peshitta, and Emerton, Wisdom, and for the New Testament Gwilliam, Gospels, and Peshitta N.T.
JI have also consulted Lee, Peshitta, for both Testaments.
373% The texts are found in Lewis, Gospel Lecttonary, Palestinian Lectionary, and Syrtae Texts.
374.
Also Tractatus, I, p. 156.
3:25:
Ph has ®Ss.SI77S for @\s901.
The prosthetic alaph is not significant (cf. ܪ >>) ܭܪ ܐ) in this MS).
376.
37:
Also Tractatus, p.
135, and Three Letters, p. 169.
Matt.
3:17 is cited twice in Senun (pp.
6 and 7), each citation differing from the other and both different from the Peshitta which Philoxenus quotes exactly in Tractatus,
Three Letters and here.
It is also noteworthy that while he quotes Matt.
3:17, the context is Luke 3:22-23 where the words spoken by the voice from heaven are somewhat different:
"e7 re » AM dus 378.
Also fractatus, IL, p.
1:87.
78441: © 239:
379.
380.
Also Senun, pp.
4, 37, 62, 63, 64; Dissertattone, p. 463; sei Letters, p.
166...
In. freetatus, pps 394) 143.239, is preceded by MM but on p.
47 the amis omitted.
The inclusion of AM in the fractatus citations seems ܇ to be an attempt to reflect the article in Greek, » ܬܗܘܘ ܘ ; cf.
John 1:1 ܫ݇ܳܐ ܡܠܘܐ AM occurs in the Syriac versions.
In his "Letter to the Monks of Tell "Adda"
(Guidi, Tell 'Adda, p. 456), Philoxenus uses of the Old Syriac version in place of ܐ ̈ܪܘܟܒ , but this is anomalous.
381.
Also in Senun, p.
8, except that the latter has ܝܗܘܒܪܥܟ (sheep) in place of . ܥܠ ܗ of Peshitta.
(Cf. the variations referred to in note 375 above.) 382.
Also Discourses, pp.
38, 433-434.
383.
Also Dissertattiones, p. 523, and Tractatus, pp.
143 and 237; pp., 247-248 of the latter have the same quotation but with ܠܛܡ instead of "™ :
- 384.
Also Patrtetus, p. 106; Three Letters, pp.
137,
(in the latter instance the word order is slightly different).
Tractatus, p. 215, and Senun ܨ ܢ the first clause as follows: (ܣܝ ܐܗܠܐ :
Pate coos ܠܥ
P. et al.
Senun also adds ܐ݀ܗܠܡܙܐ , indicating a citation ad sensum.
385.
Also Patrictus, p.
66.
Ph's spelling ax is simply a variant of 25.
386.
Also Tractatus, pp.
47, 143, 194, 237, 245, 247; Patrictus, p.
48; Dtssertattones, pp. 462-463, 523.
387% Also Discourses, I, p.241; Tractatus, pp.
69, 96, 182; Dissertattones, p. 523.
388.
Also Tractatus, p. 243.
389.
Also Tractatus, p. 243.
390.
Also Tractatus, p. 156.
392.
Also Tractatus, p. 156.
Genesis 1:26a is also found in 30r 1-2, 34r 26-27, 35r 2-3, 8-9, 35v 23-24, 37r 21-22 and Tractatus, p. 28.
All have the same wording as that cited here.
393.
394.
Also 34r 17.
Also 35r 11.
In 34:2-3 , ܐܡܠܨܒ is omitted making this citation equivalent to Pal and LXxX.
395.
Also 36v 6-8 and Genesis 2:7b in Inhabitatton, p. 52.
396.
397s Cf. fractatus, Pp.
235.
Also Genesis 4:16b in 2r 13-14.
398.
W349 3=15.
399% Also 22r 16-17 and Inhabitatton, p.
56.
400.
Also Discourses, p. 123.
The variant ASAD found in some MSS of P also occurs in two MSS of Discourses.
401.
Cf. Olinder, Friend, p. 12.
Voobus, Studies, p. 201, quotes Cambr.
MS. Add.
1999 containing some of this text (Friend) in which the order of numbers is reversed
402.
ܠܥ ܥܒܫ ܢܝܥܒܫ but Olinder's text = Ph.
Also llr 12-13, Dissertatione, p. 523, and Letters, p.
1854.
403.
In this exhibit, "Ann"
= Annuntiatione (Kruger), p. 156, "Senl" = Senun, p. 39, "Sen2" = Senun, p. 60 and "Trac"
= Tractatus, pp.
38, 55, 58, 95, 236 (p. 236 has ,ܙܠ (= P) for ܝܠܥܝܡ . "Trac"
= "De Uno et Trinitate" in Zuntz, Harklean N.T., pp.
42 ff£., where he deals inadequately with the citation from Luke 1:35.
404.
Also 16r 13-15, 27r 3-4, and Patrictius, 118:22-23.
405.
Also 33r 12 and Tractatus, 135:18-19 (with addition of am after ) ܐܒ ܪ ܫ, 406.
407.
31:86:83: i partsived, 28.
Also Letters, p. 152; Tractatus, 72:9-11; 170:131-171:1; 239:16-17; Senun, 62:25-26; and Br.
Mus.
Add.
TA,534% fol.
3:51 e2— 22).
408.
Also Letters, p.
137.
Cf. Tractatus, 97:31-98:1; 215:
16-17; 220:9-11; and Senun, 28:15-17 (here exhibited as "Sen").
409.
Also Tractatus, 259:29-30 (= "Tra" in exhibit).
410.
Also Senun, 8:27-28.
Cf. Letters, p. 171
(here exhibited as "Let").
411.
Also in part Tractatus, 187:23-24.
412.
Also in fractatus, 85:26, 177:3-4, 212:28-29.
413.
Also Tractatus, 215:14-15 and Senun, 28:12-13.
Cf.
Letters, p. 137.
In fractatus, Aas is without its pronominal suffix perhaps through haplography.
Letters = P exactly.
414.
Exhibited are all four occurrences of this quotation in Ph: viz., Phl = 16r 17, Ph2 = 25v 10-11,
Ph3 = 29v 23, and Ph4 = 26v 10-11.
415.
Phy = 24r 12-13 = Tractatus, 67:29
= Discourses,
139:10-11L
The numbers in the exhibit mark the two clauses of the verse, since Ph reverses the order of P and Har; thus, the first clause of Ph (Ph,) corresponds to the second clause of P and Har (P9, Har2).
416.
Cf£. Dissertatione, p.
(allusion), and Tractatus, 39:17-18; 47:24-25; and 237:4-5.
417.
418.
Also Discourses, 75:20-21.
419.
Also Tractatus, 237:10-11.
Cf. Voobus, Studies, pp.
197 and 201.
420.
Voobus, Studies, pp. 197, 201.
421.
422.
Hill, Diatessaron, pp. 179-180.
All references to the Diatessaron are from this work.
423.
De Halleux, Vie, p. 223.
424.
See on Luke 22:42 below.
Voobus, Studies, p. 198.
425.
See, e.g., Comment 29 on Ezekiel 1:4.
Cf. Vaschalde, Letters, p.
111, where Philoxenus anathematizes those who say that the "Power of the Most High" is not God the Word.
426.
De Halleux, Vie, p. 200, dates the (First) Letter to Beth-Gaugal to just before September 484; and p. 238, fn.
70, places the "Ten Discourses"
(or Dissertattone, or "Memre contre Habib") in the same period.
427.
De Halleux, Vie, p. 245, shows that Tractatus (also called "Le libre des sentences") was written after 509, and p.
223 gives the autumn of 521 as the date of Senun.
428.
Senun always uses Rw ܐܝܢܘܪ for "Holy Spirit"
(de Halileux wSendiy o£, 5:8; 28: U3 Al Weds lsh Be 252 0A sy 31:77
32:2-.41:25;:
42:6; 48:25; 50:3, 97. 58:9; 68:2, 57.147
71:
22, 24; 83:14; 96:11).
Tractatus uses MINA m0 (Vaschalde, Tractatus,
I, 24:27;
25:1; 28:29; 30:1; 44:10; 51:29:
55217,
58:97
61215; 63:1, 37 90214;,95:2; 131:
23; 43-293 14435262 -172:225.
236327, 28, 29; 237213; 262:
1, 15; 263:9) more than twice as often as ssw 2A F077 (opasetc.
7420220; (953245 11183233 "194524 7263: 127 2627216; 263:16; 264:3, 13; 265:29; 268:5; 271:32).
Sucha distribution may indicate either that the last part of Tractatus was written later in the author's career, or was edited by a monophysite scribe who made the expression conform to the phrase adopted by the Philoxenian and Harklean versions. yen 429. occurs in Ph 4v 4, 19; 5v 10; 14v 12; W571 23 hore2 Os liga 7:1797 11: Ov LL.
SOV, 15:20:
(= Fragment 3).
Zuntz, Harklean W.T., pp.
43 £.
431.
Philoxenus vacillated in his use of ܐܝܠܥܐܡܝܪܡ .
In Ph Fragment 3, each occurs once (lie 4) 13). we inelrectatus, he uses sx#>04%59 when quoting Luke 1:35
(55:24; 58:9; 95:2; 236:29), but in other contexts, xv ܠܠ ܝ is used (57:28; 97:13; 103:12; 181:17).
Even in Senun (his latest work), occurs once (10:1), but not in quoting Luke 1:35 directly; in other places, #50 occurs.
432.
Kruger, Annuntiatione, pp. 156-157.
433.
De Halleux, Senun, I, pp.
30, 39, 55, 58, 59, 60; and Vaschalde, Tractatus, pp.
55, 58, 95, 236, *237, 265.
434.
Cf. Hill, Diatessaron, p.
53.
435.
So Greek New Testament, p. 214.
436.
Vaschalde, Letters, p.
169.
437.
CL, 54° 3771 Sv, 22;02Iv 15s ser 7:
438. voobus, Studies, p. 198.
VOdbus mistranscribed this quotation in Ph.
The redundant possessive suffix with the 439.
possessive particle which he saw only in P of Mark 14:36 is in fact here too.
440.
See 33r 10; 35r 24.
44]. lv 4 (cf.
John 8:39 in P) and here in llv 21.
Voobus, Studtes, p. 197, where he lists the Syriac writings which include this reading.
442.
Voobus, Studies, p. 185, does not cite these three examples from Philoxenus, but refers to "Syriac Theophania, III, 43 and also Ms.
Br. Mus.
Add.
12,161, foly*76a. £ 443.
444, Vaschalde, loc. ett., cites Ephesians 1:4 as its probable origin, but indicates some doubt.
What was under the erasure is completely obliterated.
445.
Zuntz, Harklean N.T., pp.
49-50, deals with this verse with only the Tractatus evidence in view.
446.
447.
See the next chapter for a statement on his view of the Scriptures.
See pp.
212 f. above.
449, See Exhibits. 2,05, 39: 20) 22; 23:
253:
2362 37: 89: 301 37 32: 33; % 38:9 39;;140:; 41,442,651,
0575 S963),
;64'( 65,673 7: 9 70© LS pe 34 54 Sind 465:
2352 be 4 eee 63 68. Exact wordings of Peshitta texts are repeated in nineteen instances:
Gen.
1:3, Matt.
3:17b, 26:38, Luke 31:37 ,) Johns 1:14a,>Rome)
.,98£ 3:,< 823272 Corin.
3 : 4:8556
Gal.» 4:4, Phil.
2:7b, Heb. 2:11-12;.and Exhibits 2,-23, 331 3953 ; 417842". 35
1::1353:5869
ܐ 450.
451.
The misquotation of Exhibit 3 is easily explained from the context.
Exhibit 8 shows some ambivalence in the use of
ASS /S75.
Exhibit 54 remains an enigma.
452.
We note, however, that the only exact Peshitta quotation (Jerem.
51:15a) is found in Fragment 3 which (on internal evidence) is later than the work to which it has become attached (cf. the comment on Exhibit 50 on p. 238).
453.
Nine are from the Peshitta, and three (Exhibits 2, 5, 19) are close to it.
454.
Exhibitsh672 7768709, 020, 6219502), VOqe Apel Spl Op eels7 ae 358 Exhibit 18.
455.
456.
Exhibit 1, which is repeated exactly in Tractatus.
Exhibit 4.
457.
458.
Exhibit 3.
Exhibits 25, 26; 27.
459.
Exhibit 28.
460.
Exhibit 24.
461.
462.
De Halleux, Memra, II, 11.
130-135; cf. Mingana, New Documents, pp. 152-153.
Eli of Qartamin further claims that Philoxenus translated both Testaments himself.
463.
Quoted in Gwynn, Remnants, p. xxxi.
See 464.
See Exhibits 1, 7, 8, 9, 13.
Lebon, Monophysitisme, p. 145; Philoxénienne, p. 417; Voobus, Wew Data, p. 184; Farly, p. 114; de Halleux, Vie, p.2225
465.
466.
De Halleux, Vie, p. 22.
See his stated intention quoted on p.
20 above.
De Halleux, Vie, p. 123, is unfair in characterizing the Philoxenian version thus:
"elle visait a des fins exclusivement dogmatiques, et concrétement a fournir des lieux d'argumentation plus corrects aux polémistes antidiphysites."
On the other hand, Gwynn states:
"It does not appear that the (Philoxenian) translation shewed, or was ever impugned as shewing, a doctrinal bias."
(Dicttonary of Christian Biography, IV, p. 432).
467.
E.g., Sirach 17:19 and 23:19 in Discourses, pp.
182 and 595; and Baruch 3:38 in Tractatus, p. 169, and in Dissertattone, p. 519.
468.
Did Philoxenus regard one Greek version as normative?
If so, which one?
The question has no ready-made answer.
469.
I have found nothing in Old Testament quotations in the published works of Philoxenus which would modify this opinion.
A thorough examination of the Biblical quotations in all his works is, however, beyond the scope of this dissertation.
470.
Exhibits 40, 41, 42, 51, 57, 59, 63, 64, 65, 67.
471.
Exhibit 54.
472.
See especially Voobus, Wew Data, Studies, and Contemplatton.
473.
Exhibits 34, 37, 38, 43, 44, 45, 47, 52, 53.
474.
Exhibits 34, 38, 44, 47 in Vodbus, Studies, pp.
197, 198, and 201.
475.
See Exhibits 35, 36, 39, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 55, 56, 58, 60, 61, 62, 66, 68.
476.
The translated text of the colophon is on p.
21 above.
477.
478.
See p.
21 above.
Zuntz, Harklean Nif., Pp.
57.
479.
See pp.
22 £. above.
The evidence which Gwynn gathered to prove that the version of these five books which he edited was Philoxenian, only indicates that it was made prior to the Harklean version (Gwynn, Remnants, pp. xxxii ff.), not that it was part of Polycarp's work published in A.D.
508.
480.
Voobus, New Data, p. 185.
481.
In Dtettonary of Christian Btography, IV, p. 432.
Perhaps the only exception to this is the deliberate masculinization of wO7 in every instance where it is thought to refer to the Holy Spirit.
De Halleux' judgment in this regard has no real basis in fact:
"La philoxeniénne n'avait pas un caractere proprement philologique, mais elle visait a des fins exclusivement dogmatiques, et concrétement a polémesties antidiphysites."
(Vite, p. 123).
482.
483.
See, e.g., Exhibit 48.
In the Lee edition of the Peshitta, ܘܪ ܣ ̈ܚܢܚ ܝܒ ܕ ܐܫܝ occurs in Ephesians 4:30; but the British and Foreign Bible
Society edition of 1919 reads BAwU yw0%.
I have not found any other instance of siya 7 treated as a masculine in the Peshitta.
484.
485.
See p.
178 and note 269 above.
486.
The Harklean version, however, is inconsistent in its spelling; e,g., ܘܟܗ
(Matt.
10:2), 3> ܐ ܛ1ܣܘܪ (Matt.
16:23), @NLLMaA (Matt. 18:21) and ULF (Luke 22:34, where the use is vocative).
487.
See Exhibit 55.
488.
Chas Exhibits Ste 489.
As already pointed out, his Bible included the Old Testament Apocrypha and excluded the Minor Catholic
Epistles and Revelation.
490.
Budge, Discourses, I, p.
237.
491.
35020: 0:1338.
492.
6571:
Sole PA 493.
Tanghe, Inhabitatton, p.
42.
494, 25v le ff.; cf.
26v 1-2, "Christians who believe accept it, not by understanding it but because it is written."
9r 25.
He also makes clear that the acceptance of the word of scripture by faith results in obedient action on the part of the believer (Discourses, I, pp.
4-5).
495.
496.
Budge, Discourses, II, p. xxxviii.
497.
9re25.
See p.
20 above for a full expression of this concern of his.
498. fx 08 $ 499, 26v 1=2.
500.
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Budge, Discourses, I, p.
65.
Aphrahat uses the same figure of speech in his address on "Faith":
"Hear, then, my beloved, and open to me the internal eyes of your heart and the spiritual perceptions of your understanding to that which I say to you."
(Quoted in Budge, Discourses, Pip Da Chi.) 1 Corinthians 2:14.
503.
Budge, Discourses, I, p.
83.
504.
3 × Bose Svieks Or 25 71s Oriel Sie] peer 910:¥£35¶ 7% De Halleux, Vie, pp.
319-330, deals at length with "Le mystére du devenir divin" in Philoxenus' theology.
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See, e.g., Chrysostom on Matt.
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2v 25-26 says that the Davidic kingdom "was given to (Solomon) as a type."
529).
The undisciplined nature of this rambling' fragment of exegesis is not characteristic of Philoxenus, and it led me to re-examine the fragment to see whether there were any definite signs of a non-Philoxenian origin.
The results of such re-examination only confirm Philoxenus as the author.
530.
33r 22, 34v 6.
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Gregory of Nazianzus referred to God as the "Archetype"
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4); but he did not develop the concept in relation to biblical typology.
531.
34v 6.
532.
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534.
Budge, Discourses, I, pp. 192-193.
In this passage, Philoxenus presses the analogy so much that the type becomes an allegory.
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543.
So de Halleux, Vte, p.
233, who calls this work "Le volume contre Habib."
Only the first two Memre have been published -see Briére, Dissertationes.
544, De Halleux, Yexrtes, I, p.
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APPENDIX A
The following page contains a trascribed extract from British Museum MS. Add.
14,534, folio 38r line 25 to 38v line 28.
The beginning of each fifth line of the manuscript is marked by an asterisk and noted in the margin.
A translation of this extract is given on page 20.
ܢܝܕ ܢܸܐKAM ܘܪܒܗܐ um : ܘܩܫܦܕ 38r 25 ܐܢܫܠܒ ܡܝܗ ܬܬܢܕ ܪܝܦܫ ܐܠܕKIND ܝܐ ܢܝܘܗ ܐܗܠܐܕ ܘܐ ̇ ܐܝܢܝܫܡܕan pn tiaras: *38v i ܢܸܡXk ܐܠܘ oo waged ܝܕ ܦܝKite eds ܐܡܢܠܦ ܦܩܦܗܝܬܝܐ ܢܝܠܝܐܕ ܐܥܒܡܠ ܐܠܐ ܡܘܐ ܐܗܠܐ ܢܡܕ ܢܘܢܗ .ܿܐܗ ̈ܡܫܘtos mt
ae ܐܒܿܫܘܝܢܕ ܐܕܠܝ ܘܠܕ ܠܛܡ .ܘܠܠܡܬܐ ܐܝܝܝܠ ̈ܫܘ Loti' ܢܝܠܗ ܢܝܗܝܬܝܐLOT .ܐܫܝܪܒ ܐܒܬܟܒ ܢܠܒܩܢ ܐܘܐ ܝܫܢܐ ܐܬܥܕܝ ܖܝܒܕ <amiad as Kinch ܠܟ ً ܼܐܝܢ ̈ܘܝ ܢܝܕ ܬܘܠaw ܐܗ ̈ܡܫܘ ܐܠܳܡ*ܢܝܠܗ ܢܡ
ܢܡ ܪܡܐܐܬܐܕ ܢܢܕܗܥܬܐܕrio Ware .ܐܝܢܠܫ ܢܡܘ iam ܢܡ ܐܘܗܕ . ܢܝܡ ܪܡ ܐܬܐܕ ܐܡ ܟܝܐ ܢܝܡܼܝܗ ܪܒ ܖܕܠܝܬܐܕ ܘܠܘ ܆ܪܗܣܒܒ ܕܝܘܕܕ = ܝܒܘܬܟ
x > ܬeas" ama . ܐܝܢܝܫܡܒܕ ܐܝܢܝܫܦܡ ܥܘܫܝܕܘ iam sam .ܝܗܘܬܝܐAl sae < ܢܘܗܠܝܕ Mod ܐܒܠܟ ܐܢܒܬܝܕܕidan ܢܝܠܗܠ ܢܟܗܬܘܠܕ *20 ܘܠܘ. ܘܝܢܕܬܡܠ ܿܬܝܐܪܝܘܝ ܐܠܘ ܢܵܡܝܘidk ܢܡܕ
So ܝ ܐܕ ܢܝܠܗ :܆ܿܒܫܦܬܐ ܘܗܕ ܐܗ ܠܘܢܪܒܗܡܕ ܢܝܗܝ ܢܡܕ ܐܝܢܦܠܘܝܕ ܘܠܘ . ܗܠܝܕ3 > 38504 ܒܫܦܡ ܘܐ ܇ܦܠܝܚܫܡܕ ܢܡ ܠܟ2 .> ws ܢܡ ܘܠܠܡ ܬܐܕ * ܐܗܡܡܫܘ ܐܳܠ ̈ܡATS ܖܘܝܢܠܒ SISA <i ܐܠܐ ܦܐ ܐܥܝܫܪ .ܐܢܦܖܓܢܘ .ܐܝܢܝܢܶܡܕܘ ܐܢܘܝܒܩ ̈ܪܡܕ ܐܦܬܘܫܘ :3
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INDEX Chalcedon, Council of, 11, PATS, el, 782 19, 23 35, 397:430.
197:
Loe, 9 Chrysostom, John, 4, 13, 187, 98: 200 pe 20705 ܛ 2571, :4
Constantinople, 12, 13, 15-19,
Cureton, W., 43, 45 Curetonian version, 178, 179, 211-246 Cyril of Alexandria, 16,
Acacius, 17, 18 Addai, disciple,
Addai, Philoxenus' brother,
Alaric,
Alexander the Great, 21, AM Sy >
Alexandria, Alexandrian, 10 : 12 1S, LOg Lh 2 oe!
Amida, 14,
Bnastasius, .12,. 23, 189 Antioch, Antiochian, 10, ll, Tt One tol, Cora Oy 1:5
0; 185, 254,
Aphrahat, 178, 179, 211-246 Arban,
Arbela,
Aristotle,
Athanasius, 195-198,
Attila,
Dad-Isho,
de Halleux, A., 3, 4, 8, 10, 33, 23? 23836; 97337 57 18300198, 793; 078; 254.
Diala River,
Diodore of Tarsus, 10, 29, 33, 34,35, 29, 70347 62 188,
Dioscurus, 16,
Baghdad,
Bardaisan, 39,
Bar-Hadbesabba,
Bar Hebraeus, 21, 22, 24, 25 Bar Ssalwpi, 24; 207.27
Bar-Sauma,
Baumstark, A., ܐ Benjamin the Syrian,
Beth-Arsam,
Beth-Garmai, 7, 8, 9, 15 Beth-Gogal, 10, 182,
Beth-Lapat,
Beth-Sabirina,
Beth-Selok,
Biblical quotations, see 212-219 British Museum MSS.
Edessa, 0, 70. 171
127. 0s 15, 24, 244 Egypt, Egyptian, 11, 13, 17, 18:7
Bld. of Qartamin, 7, 8, 11, 195) 22). 407 3 Ephesus, Council of, 11, 15, 2.217ܪ165 "Robber"
Synod of,
Ephrem Syrus, 35, 178, 179, 211-246,
Ephthalites,
Ethiopian, 25, 31, 32 Euphemius,
Euphrates River,
Euphratesia, 11, 14 Eutyches, Eutychianism, 16, 17.` 39 ;7032,
Add. 27245, 26.52
Add.
14 534,625. 3 19 00 23,24, 1265 270 37:87
Add.
17,126, passim Budge,
E. A. W.,
1, 2a a, 3S; 40, 41, 221 Flavian of Constantinople,
Flavian II of Antioch, 11, alia Re ag 85 Calandion,,.
10,,
Canon of scripture, 14, 22, 237. 7
Gerlani, A. ܠ 2 Gangra,
George of Be'eltan,
Graham, W. C.,
Gwynn, J., 22, 23, 245 Nestorius, Nestorianism, 8, 10. 13? 15:27:56: 37:24
PASM 33, 34: 390 3351
E39, 140, 142, 57:
158) L835) LESpeLey pa OS LOT, 198, 203, 249,
Nicea, Council of, 17, 247 Nisibis, 14,° 15). 43
Nitrian Desert, 1, 43 Nonnus,
Habib, 321 7 Harklean version, see Thomas of Harkel Haytim,
Hida g(t bas) ie 3.19: 10:5
Hierapolis, see Mabbug Huns, 14,
Huzaites,
Old Syriac version, 3, 23, 190, 202, 211-246 Ortiz de Urbana, 39,
Osroene,
Ibas, see Hiba Jerusalem, 12, 130 John Bar-Aphthon,
John of Dara,
John the Egyptian,
John of Karka,
Josephus,
Joshua the Stylite,
Justin I, 13,
Justinian,
Pacho, A.,
Palladius,
Papa (Mar) of Beth-Lapat,
Paphlagonia,
Patricius, 39-41 Paul of Samosata, 162,
Paul of Tella, 21, 243,
Pentapolis,
Persecution, 7, 8, 14, 15,
Persia, 7-9, 12-15, 18, 19 Peshitta, 2, 21-23, 78, 179:
187? ooo) oO eos 202, 211-246,
Peter the Fuller, 11, 12 Peter Mongus, 17, 18 Petra,
Philippopolis,
Philoxenian version, 2, 3, 19-24, 25, 211-246,
Philoxenus, passim Polycarp, chorepiscopus, 2, 20, 22, 211-246 Karka, Kirkuk,
Kobad,
Kundzins, C.,
Lebon, J., 2, 23, 243 Leloir, Let, 178 Leo I, emperor,
Leo I, pope, 16, 17,
Libya,
Mabbug (Hierapolis), 1, 4, 9, ea 21:
3.7; 33; 477 204:
Macedonius,
Marcian, emperor,
Marcion, Marcionism, 20, 39, 30: 132; 162:
Mesopotamia, 7, 14,
Milan,
Monastery of St. Mary Qardwaite,
Rabbula,
Rome, 12-15, 18, 19 Sabellius,
St. Mary Deipara, monastery, Deipara, 1, 43 Monophysite, Monophysitism, ess School of the Persians, ±: 3, 8, 10-13, 16-19,.
32, 37, 40-42, 182, 184, 198, 208,
Moses of Aggel, 20, 22 Moses Bar-Kepka,
Moses of Nisibis,
8-10, 15, 24, 244 Sellars, R. V.,
Senun, 8, 10, 12, 28, 40, 41 Septuagint; 222), 178, 179, 211-246 Severus, 13, 19,
Simon of Beth-Arsam,
Simon Magus, 132, 181, 182 Simplicius,
Narsai,
Nazareth,
Sinaitic version, 178, 183, 211-246 Sprengling, M., 21 Sykes, P. M.,
Syro-Hexaplar, 22, 179, 211-246 ¶? 8037
(Tahal), 7, 8; 9 Tanghe, A., 38, 189 Tertullian,
Theodore of Mopsuestia, 4, 10, Le 290, Son 33: Oo, al; 353: 357:
(73851 877 65 199,
Theodosius
II, 15-17
Thomas of Harkel, Harklean Version, 2, 3, 20-23, 38, 181, 211-246,
Thrace,
Tigris River,
Tohm Yezdigird,
Tur-Abdin, 7, 9, 15 Valentinus, 40, 132 Vandals,
Vaschalde, A., 2, 197,
VOOBUBy 3: < 3:97231 47 71
233), 254, 256-238, 244, 245,
Wright, W., 1, 3, 45, 47 Yezdigird II, 8, 14 Zab (Lesser) River,
Zagros Mountains,
Zeno, Ll, 3:2? 47 2 98 Zoroastrianism,
Zriga,
81082 Gey 27 Sp 23; 38; Silly 235 245, 255
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