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1 Text | carefully with thy mind, 0 hearer, and see that necessity
2 Text | that (statement) the [P.12] former reasoning continues
3 Text(2) | 1 Albinus (c. 152 A.D.) wrote an Introduction (
4 Text | is clear that these [P. 16.] names likewise do not
5 Text(10)| attire in the Life of Rabbula 18919. The Note to p. 42, 1. 2,
6 Text(12)| sailed about' : see p. 221, 1. 35, and delete the Note,
7 Text | are names (or 'nouns'), [P.23] are a0sw&mata, i.e. incorporeal ?
8 Text | for everything' 8 . . . [P.25 l.18]~* * * * * * * ~(
9 Text | argument). There is [p. 26] nothing which is not named
10 Text | voice as it came. And [P. 28.] if they (i.e. the speakers)
11 Text | to (any other) place, [P. 29.] because it exists (?).
12 Text | perceived by the mind. [P. 30.] ~* * * * * * * ~[
13 Text | are (only) signs of [P. 31.] notions. For writings
14 Text | that is, according [P. 32.] as the intervening distance
15 Text | p.34] ~[ll. 5-20.] [Even by day
16 Text | concentrated in the furnace [P. 36.] of a blacksmith or in
17 Text | the straightness of [P. 37.] the wood. ~Again, inhale
18 Text | and when the sight [P. 39.] is weak errs (lit. slips).
19 Text | distance nor yet on [P. 40.] account of nearness (?).
20 Text | it (i.e. the water) ; [P. 41.] and if the beams were
21 Text | is perfume deposited [P. 43.] in a blossom and light
22 Text | P. 45, l.15] on account of which
23 Text | is not thought . . . [P. 46.] its disc. . . . And again
24 Text | to compel Nature. For P. 47. God created the world and
25 Text | names and supposed that [P. 49.] the nature (of things)
26 Text | Platonists, even if they [P. 7.] are written in the writings
27 Text | not only in that he [P. 8.] was unable to state but
28 Text | the Sun, that is to say 9Hliodro&moj, and from Fire, (that
29 Text(2) | 1 Albinus (c. 152 A.D.) wrote an Introduction (
30 Text | this case hearing is in abeyance and thou hearest with the
31 Text | this case (i.e. when the above-mentioned words were uttered) the
32 Text | it also at night, in the absence of the light; for also when
33 Text | i.e. philosophers) have abundantly demonstrated these things
34 Text | have said above, Bardaisan accepts (as literal fact) the parables
35 Text | heights that are hard of access. And so would the eye be
36 Text | stronger because of its accumulation. Consider moreover a trumpet,
37 Text | everything which is created, act by measure. But if there
38 | actually
39 Text | these things incorporeal I [admit] that I may say how and
40 Text | approach it by measure an advantage is produced for us out of
41 Text | that because the moon [is affected by the power] of the sun,
42 Text | overthrown and built up (afresh). And again let us turn
43 | after
44 Text(9) | mona&s), are real (unsai/ai), more real than the solid
45 Text | moderation. For if arrogance allowed itself to be subject to
46 Text | as it (i.e. his eye) is altogether open—the workman closes
47 | always
48 Text | us, or the likenesses of angels, whose length and breadth,
49 Text | what he has now failed (to apply, namely) that if a p. 48.
50 Text | used, not, however, (as applying) to it but to that which
51 Text | it exists (?), has been apprehended (lit. overtaken) by the
52 Text | that if a p. 48. perfume approached us equally we should all
53 Text | him is reproved when he approaches the work which belongs to
54 Note1 | words. In respect to this an approximately correct inference may be
55 Text | water. Consider moreover aqueducts and see how water is collected
56 Note2 | numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic numbers and line numbers
57 Text | that is to say, like an arch, and that which is placed
58 Text | themselves to refute by their arguments the inquiries of men who
59 Text | body these three dimensions arise for it. But they (i.e. the
60 Text(9) | 6 Compare Aristotle, Metaphysica vi 2, 2 : "
61 Text | eight1 angles. For when artists portray the likenesses of
62 Text | and pipes and (then) it ascends and does service on heights
63 Text | canst not measure (and) ascribe to it three dimensions,
64 Text | to calumniate Plato by (ascribing to him) the inquiries of
65 Text | not to be blamed (by being asked) why he does not know something
66 Text | another one cannot even . . . assert . . . [P.13] For because
67 Text | spoken, while the limner asserts concerning Geometry that
68 Text | the opposite indeed is not assisted by its opposite, nor is
69 Text | Bardaisan erred and went astray, for he said concerning
70 Text(4) | found necessary to render athra sometimes by ' Place ' and
71 Text | the ear in the sound can attach itself (lit. can come) to
72 Text | these also [l. 33.] [are attached] to 'bound' substances ;
73 Note1 | mutilation, italics indicate an attempt to summarise the argument
74 Text(10)| 2 A word used of gaudy attire in the Life of Rabbula 18919.
75 Text | size has not received any augmentation (?) and no further radiance
76 Text | expressing) a notion. For authors would not even have been
77 | away
78 Text | thou mayest know that the Bardesanists have not even heard that
79 Text | substance at all; for it is a bare name whereby the notion
80 Text | water) ; [P. 41.] and if the beams were striking upon a mirror
81 Text | more than birds, and a wild beast drinks more than creeping
82 | begin
83 Text | substances. For they have begun by saying concerning Space,
84 Text | with everything else. For beings above and below, along with
85 Text | PLATONISTS. ~ ~KNOW, O my beloved, that in (?) everything
86 Text | the sky is like a circular belt, that is to say, like an
87 Text | through a wall its breath beomes stronger because of its
88 Text | appellations which they bestowed. For these appellations
89 Text | of the sky and likewise a bird, if it happens to fly above
90 Text | that cattle eat more than birds, and a wild beast drinks
91 Text(11)| engender ' is, literally, 'give birth to.' ~
92 Text | whether it be soft or hard, or bitter or sweet. And so also when
93 Text | the furnace [P. 36.] of a blacksmith or in the fireplace of a
94 Text | blame (it) ; for he who blames is himself blameworthy.
95 Text | to add (extra) limbs thou blamest him by reason of the substance
96 Text | he who blames is himself blameworthy. The fact therefore that
97 Text | fireplace of a goldsmith its blast goes forth strongly because
98 Text | measure. For increase the blaze and see that the heat increases ;
99 Text | A DISCOURSE MADE BY THE BLESSED SAINT [P. 1] EPHRAIM AGAINST
100 Text | deposited [P. 43.] in a blossom and light in a lamp and
101 Text | which comes from visible blossoms. For if it were not the
102 Text | incorporeal things (dependent) on bodily substances which exist,
103 Text | are not wise. For their boldness has made them think that
104 Text | of) sight, (that) of many books, of seals, of pearls and
105 Text | Therefore substances which are bought or sold have these three
106 Text(9) | is held by some that the boundaries of a body, such as the visible
107 Text | tablet. ~But I say to thee briefly — there are these three
108 Text | the darkness the stars are bright and visible, which are hidden
109 Text | creeping things, and the sun is brighter than the stars, though (
110 Text | continues to be overthrown and built up (afresh). And again let
111 Text | may be hurt! ~For as heavy burdens teach weakness to excuse
112 Text | When [a man sees] a fire [burning] in a Temple or a [Palace]
113 Text | verbs7 and the nouns called 'buying' and 'selling' have no substance.
114 Text | writing. There is no clang or buzzing or humming or sound without
115 Text(2) | 1 Albinus (c. 152 A.D.) wrote an Introduction (
116 Text | simplicity he hastened to calumniate Plato by (ascribing to him)
117 Text | And on this account note carefully with thy mind, 0 hearer,
118 Text | upward. Again, observe a carpenter (and see) that when he considers
119 Text | smoke, and it circles and is carried up on high. But when the
120 Text | as (it may be said) that cattle eat more than birds, and
121 Text | compressed and hollow (?) like cavities and tubes. And if a workman
122 Text | is wholly destroyed and ceases (to exist), because there
123 Text | tongue within the mouth and changes of sound, but the sound,
124 Text | East show how great is its circle and full and ... its disc.
125 Text | forth the smoke, and it circles and is carried up on high.
126 Text | harm. For the sky is like a circular belt, that is to say, like
127 Text | how water is collected in cisterns and pipes and (then) it
128 Text | its writing. There is no clang or buzzing or humming or
129 Text | reason of the strength and clearness which are added to it. But
130 Text | is compressed between the clefts of a mountain, or in the
131 Text | altogether open—the workman closes half of his eye, that he
132 Text | striking of both of them, in combination with one another, sight
133 Text | are these two natures only coming to meet one another, namely
134 Text | them . . ., at the (very) commencement, when thou seest, thou knowest
135 Text | 24.] bodies according to common usage ; for a man says '
136 Text | placed, so that it is a companion and a limiter for it (i.e.
137 Text(9) | 6 Compare Aristotle, Metaphysica vi
138 Text | tubes. And if a workman is comparing (?) depth with height he
139 Text | the depth and reckon it in comparison with the height. But I say
140 Text | no voice, but within (the compass of) thine own voice thou
141 Text | when that will desires to compel Nature. For P. 47. God created
142 Text | seeing that Nature itself is compelled to follow the will, when
143 Text | not even have been able to compose anything, if they did not
144 Text | and is weak ; but if thou compressest thy lips a little on the
145 Text | mouth of a kiln, how it concentrates and sends forth the smoke,
146 Text | But these inquiries (were conducted) according as the Stoics
147 Text | do not know a thing they confess that they do not know it.
148 Text | him under the weakness of confessing that he does not know ;
149 Text | sight [compels] him to be confused, and he will run in every
150 Text | were said above have been confuted. For if one corporeal Space
151 Text | little by little and (so) conies to its place, the eye cannot
152 Note1 | brackets are to be regarded as conjectural translations or paraphrases.~
153 Text | Length is produced by the conjunction of body and speech.6 For
154 Text | therefore here (i.e. in this connection) also the Stoics made the
155 Text | incorporeal. And when thou hast considered (the matter) thus, create
156 Text | carpenter (and see) that when he considers the straightness of the
157 Text | the dragger of things) is (constantly) travelling and knows not
158 Note1 | inference may be drawn by consulting the Syriac text.~Double
159 Text | P.12] former reasoning continues to be overthrown and built
160 Text | a statement which I have contradicted above. ~[This] same length
161 Text | colours. But if, on the contrary, he mentions to thee 'Time'
162 Text | it (musical) tones, which convey a meaning to the hearer
163 Text | also by a gesture a man conveys a meaning, and in this case
164 Text | or subtracts thou canst convict him. But if thou thinkest, "
165 Text | which it is unable to speak convincingly. For some have been found
166 Text | of a lamp is abundant and copious this amount of light would
167 Text | of that line so that thou couldst blame him. And because it
168 Text | in the same, he hastily coupled them together in a foolish
169 Text | all directions. ~But any craftsman who makes a promise about
170 Text | considered (the matter) thus, create in thy mind height and depth—
171 Text | apart from this name no creature can be measured ? Therefore
172 Text | wild beast drinks more than creeping things, and the sun is brighter
173 Text | a flute or he who utters cries with a mouth that inhales
174 Text | openest thy mouth wide and criest, thy voice wanders and is
175 Text | he draws for himself a crooked one ; and if thou thinkest
176 Text | defeats fasehood and is crowned. ~But thou knowest that
177 Note1 | l.2] means line 2 of the current page of the accompanying
178 Text | Incorporeal,' according to the custom followed by sages and philosophers
179 Text | them wanders. But as for dark-coloured stones and (other) black
180 Text | appears thus, and ... at dawn, when the moon reaches,
181 Text | by much light the eye is dazzled and that object which is (
182 Text | who does not know how to deal with it, investigation is
183 Text | starving men make use of food death is produced for them out
184 Text | And when it (i.e. the sun) declines and the shadow in its turn
185 Text | victorious, since it triumphs and defeats fasehood and is crowned. ~
186 Text | it holds so much (i.e. a definite quantity)." For if he supposes
187 Text(12)| see p. 221, 1. 35, and delete the Note, p. 48, 1. 48 ~
188 Text(10)| to p. 42, 1. 2, should be deleted. ~
189 Text | philosophers) have abundantly demonstrated these things to him who
190 Text | spoken. ... but it has not departed to (any other) place, [P.
191 Text | the draftsman of the line departs from the likeness he can
192 Text | are incorporeal things (dependent) on bodily substances which
193 Text | small measure is perfume deposited [P. 43.] in a blossom and
194 Text | since even the summits and depths of the earth, together with
195 Text | stars, on the other hand, descends to the eye as it were into
196 Text | on a thing which was not designed for judgement but for (expressing)
197 Text | lines all works and all designs are made, and (also) what
198 Text | not that they wished to destroy their knowledge, but that
199 Text | the darkness is wholly destroyed and ceases (to exist), because
200 Text | names [l. 42.] should be detached, and, because they are not
201 Text | but have come near to be detected 1 in directions where they
202 Text(2) | Ei0sagwgh&) to the Platonic Dialogues, but the work here referred
203 Text | three dimensions (to_ trixh~ diastaton)," namely length and breadth
204 Text | light; for also when the sun diffuses (its light) upon the water,
205 Text | that if, moreover, thou diffusest a perfume by measure in
206 Text | that when the extent and dimension of a substance is long it
207 Text | sources, so also the sight diminishes as it goes to a distance.
208 Text | because of weakness or disease or other things of the same
209 Text | that they also are things distinct from Space, that is to say,
210 Text | into being inside the world distinctions have arisen that are called '
211 Text | means of which he (or it) is distinguished from others, like the point
212 Text | others, like the point which distinguishes one word from another. There
213 Text | that because the eye is distracted by the rays of the lamp (
214 Text | may say that) its branches divide there, for these (i.e. Time
215 Note1 | consulting the Syriac text.~Double inverted commas mark quotations
216 Text | especially if thou art looking downward and not upward. Again, observe
217 Text | body (such) that if the draftsman of the line departs from
218 Text | things in motion (lit. the dragger of things) is (constantly)
219 Text | if thou thinkest, "He is drawing a straight line," he draws
220 Text | drawing a straight line," he draws for himself a crooked one ;
221 Text | verbs, such as, 'eat,' 'drink,' 'rise,' 'sit.' Now these
222 Text | birds, and a wild beast drinks more than creeping things,
223 Text | equally, if his ear is not dull." ~But from this very thing
224 | during
225 Text(8) | 3 Ecclesiastes iii 1. ~
226 Text | lit. solid) outflow. But effulgence perfume, and heat are not
227 Text(2) | wrote an Introduction (Ei0sagwgh&) to the Platonic Dialogues,
228 Text | make it (to consist) of eight1 angles. For when artists
229 Note2 | Note of the electronic source~I have moved the
230 Text | anything, if they did not employ these appellations. For
231 Text | to work at a forge and to engrave, and so also (thou teachest)
232 Text | 13] For because a single entity is found . . . ~* * * * * * * ~[
233 Text | contrivances which I have enumerated for thee above have not
234 Text | these four examples are equal, as I have said, these contrivances
235 Text | But the Stoics did not err, for they said that they (
236 Text | it is here that Bardaisan erred and went astray, for he
237 Text | by the hearing of these errors, and though our insignificance
238 Text | concentrated and increases, especially if thou art looking downward
239 Text | the eye, and that he may estimate (lit. weigh) the extent (
240 Note1 | asterisks intended to bear any exact relation to the number of
241 Text | knows, he is one who has exalted himself above (the limit
242 Text | cannot be arrogance unless it exalts itself [above its proper
243 Text | Thus although these four examples are equal, as I have said,
244 Text | But if there be some who exceed (others), as (it may be
245 | except
246 Text | their own party and then exert themselves to refute by
247 Text | a mouth that inhales and exhales the air (does so) in order
248 Text | Again, make (lit. take) an experiment for thyself, (namely) if
249 Text | designed for judgement but for (expressing) a notion. For authors would
250 Text(2) | and does not seem to be extant.~
251 Text | in the South . . . and extends (its rays) as far as the
252 Text | direction, because he cannot extinguish that great fire . . . that [
253 Text | And again, if a lamp be extinguished at night on the [P. 35.]
254 Text | the artist wishes to add (extra) limbs thou blamest him
255 Text(9) | and outline (grammh&) and extreme points (stigmh&) and its
256 Text | of thy flesh or of thine eyelids thou givest some substance
257 Text | though the ear did not fail to hear the sound. But if
258 Text | But the cause of the eye failing (lit. slipping) is that
259 Text | are Persians, the mind fails to perceive the meaning
260 Text | goes away it likewise grows faint, and by the mechanism of
261 Text | moreover according to the faintness or intensity of the light
262 Text | it triumphs and defeats fasehood and is crowned. ~But thou
263 Text | the horse which the truth fashions. ~But if I say to thee, "
264 Text | becomes less through much fasting, and when the sight [P.
265 Text | stay upon the bodies by favour. But if thou sayest 'Iron'
266 Text | investigation is not too feeble to reprove also by its silence
267 Text | some substance which can be felt and seen. But in this case (
268 | few
269 Text | Fulness which is enough to fill up all our needs might incline
270 Text | them, consider also the fire-hoses (si/fwnej), and see to what
271 Text | of a blacksmith or in the fireplace of a goldsmith its blast
272 Text | the name thy imagination fixes itself on the corporeal
273 Text | thou givest a piece of thy flesh or of thine eyelids thou
274 Text | again that he who blows a flute or he who utters cries with
275 Text | vehicle for the voice or the flute-blowing. For the air is a vehicle
276 Text | a bird, if it happens to fly above the aforesaid basin. ~
277 Text | Nature itself is compelled to follow the will, when that will
278 Text | according to the custom followed by sages and philosophers
279 Text | hear equally, nor . . . foods touch all mouths equally,
280 Text | coupled them together in a foolish phrase, saying that "Light,
281 Text | and so also (with) thy foot and thy hand. For as regards
282 Note2 | source~I have moved the footnotes to the end. Those consisting
283 Text | i.e. the food's) vital force. O correct measure, which
284 Text | to write and to work at a forge and to engrave, and so also (
285 Text | without a Line being in its form or in its writing. There
286 Text | like a literal (lit. bound) fountain. For lo ! the voice which
287 Text | distance. For (in the case of) fountains of abundant water their
288 Text | great is its circle and full and ... its disc. But there
289 Text | making themselves needy the Fulness which is enough to fill
290 Text | it is concentrated in the furnace [P. 36.] of a blacksmith
291 | further
292 Text | because of its concentration. Furthermore, if this wind that blows
293 Text | also the fire-hoses (si/fwnej), and see to what a height
294 Text | he does not know it, he gains a victory as about that
295 Text(1) | 1 For the rendering, see Galatians vi 1, syr. vg.~
296 Note1 | translation by dots, and longer gaps by asterisks, but in neither
297 Text | and again from Water, Ph&gasoj, so there are among our
298 Text(10)| 2 A word used of gaudy attire in the Life of Rabbula
299 Text | sight (of the eye) which gazes at them wanders. But as
300 Text | send forth from our mouth gently, and see that when it is
301 Text | limner asserts concerning Geometry that with its lines all
302 Text | by necessity). But by the gift which comes from Him thou
303 Text(11)| engender ' is, literally, 'give birth to.' ~
304 Text | is great and its disc is glorious and beautiful. But I say
305 Text | or in the fireplace of a goldsmith its blast goes forth strongly
306 Text | they (i.e. thy notions) are good or wise, though writings
307 Text(9) | e0pifa&neia) and outline (grammh&) and extreme points (stigmh&)
308 Text | extent of the distance is greater in its measure than the
309 Text | near, and according to the greatness or smallness of the object
310 Text | Well, then, because in the Greek language 'sun' and 'eye'
311 Text | in a measure and begin to grow weak as they go to a distance.
312 Text | it goes away it likewise grows faint, and by the mechanism
313 Text | these are names of lands or habitations ; but the Place in the midst
314 Text | open—the workman closes half of his eye, that he may
315 Text | the mouth, nor smelt, nor handled. But that meaning which
316 Text | of the sky, both help and harm. For the sky is like a circular
317 Text | of fire, though it is a harmful thing, when our bodies [
318 Text | produced for us out of its harmfulness. And if without measure
319 Text | and in (his) simplicity he hastened to calumniate Plato by (
320 Text | feminine in the same, he hastily coupled them together in
321 Text | seen, and according to the healthiness or unhealthiness of the
322 Text | though, because of the heaven and earth that came into
323 Text | who may be hurt! ~For as heavy burdens teach weakness to
324 Text | ascends and does service on heights that are hard of access.
325 Text(9) | Metaphysica vi 2, 2 : "It is held by some that the boundaries
326 Text | lower parts of the sky, both help and harm. For the sky is
327 Text | yet failed ; for they are helpful to a certain measure. For
328 Text | eye ; and the sun does not hide the stars when it rises—
329 Text | has been measured that it holds so much (i.e. a definite
330 Text | height he makes a small hole for himself, in order that
331 Text | just as there are names of horses which are derived from the
332 | however
333 Text | perfect and righteous, have humbled themselves that they might
334 Text | For whoever comes forward humbly as a learner, that humility
335 Text | humbly as a learner, that humility of his places him under
336 Text | is no clang or buzzing or humming or sound without one of
337 Text(8) | 3 Ecclesiastes iii 1. ~
338 Text | which is not in the (true) image of that substance, he is
339 Text | But if that body is an impediment to it, then also again something
340 Text | cannot be said (i.e. without implying the qualities of these substances). . . . ~* * * * * * * ~. . .
341 Text | previously) within them and was inaudible, for it is their nature
342 Text | fill up all our needs might incline towards them. If therefore
343 Text | words which are spoken are included within these seven a0sw&
344 Text | subject to measure. For increase the blaze and see that the
345 Note1 | great mutilation, italics indicate an attempt to summarise
346 Note1 | 10):~[Short lacunae are indicated in the translation by dots,
347 Note1 | the fragments.]~[P.101] indicates page 101 of the accompanying
348 Note1 | an approximately correct inference may be drawn by consulting
349 Text | cries with a mouth that inhales and exhales the air (does
350 Text | nostrils, and see that the inhaling power of thy nostrils is
351 Text | are found, just as ... all injuries are produced by all arrogance.
352 Text | a spacious hollow on the inner side thy voice is concentrated
353 Text | from afar, if there were instruments to (assist) the eyesight.
354 Text | But if I say to thee, "I intend to draw a line," thou knowest
355 Note1 | of the dots or asterisks intended to bear any exact relation
356 Text | according to the faintness or intensity of the light which reveals (
357 Text | those things are known which introduce judgement and discussion. ~
358 Text | the Stoics which Albinus 2 introduced into his book which is called '
359 Text | meet the illuminated object invisibly, like the invisible scent
360 Text(9) | points (stigmh&) and its isolation (mona&s), are real (unsai/
361 Text | But so Bardaisan juggled 13 even by names and supposed
362 Text | Look also at the mouth of a kiln, how it concentrates and
363 Note1 | Introduction, p. (10):~[Short lacunae are indicated in the translation
364 Text | Now these are names of lands or habitations ; but the
365 Text | this account from afar even large objects appear small. For
366 | latter
367 Text | Bardaisan) made himself a laughing-stock among Syrians and Greeks,
368 Text | comes forward humbly as a learner, that humility of his places
369 Text | For he who is humble and learns from a teacher, he is able . . . ~* * * * * * * ~[
370 Text | craft which has. not been learnt by him is reproved when
371 Text | names, as I said above. ~But leave all of them (?), and hear
372 | less
373 Text | and because he does not lie in either of them his truth
374 Text(10)| used of gaudy attire in the Life of Rabbula 18919. The Note
375 Text | weakness to excuse itself from (lifting) any weight which it is
376 Text | it is a companion and a limiter for it (i.e. for Space) ?
377 Text | and performed within (the limits of) Time. There is nothing
378 Text | to be spoken, while the limner asserts concerning Geometry
379 Text | concerning Geometry that with its lines all works and all designs
380 Text | to portray a horse or a lion, and before the artist portrays (
381 Text | if thou compressest thy lips a little on the outer side
382 Text(11)| word for 'engender ' is, literally, 'give birth to.' ~
383 Text | p.34] ~[ll. 5-20.] [Even by day the
384 Text | especially if thou art looking downward and not upward.
385 Text | when the moon reaches, the lowest part [of the West], the
386 Text | little on the outer side and makest with them as it were a spacious
387 Text | Greeks called e0pifa&neia, Manifestation, i.e. the appearance of
388 Text | length and breadth and the [marks] that things are known [
389 Text | there is an abundant and material (lit. solid) outflow. But
390 Text | thou hast considered (the matter) thus, create in thy mind
391 Text | ones be arrogant in such matters as we do not know ? For
392 Text | exist are not bodies but meanings (or notions), so that they
393 Text | he supposes that Space is measurable it is necessary that length
394 Text | and substances. For thou measurest a body which has length,
395 Text | grows faint, and by the mechanism of a trumpet it becomes
396 Text | or 'earth,' at the mere mention of the name thy imagination
397 Text | if, on the contrary, he mentions to thee 'Time' or 'Number'
398 Text | eagle,' or 'earth,' at the mere mention of the name thy
399 Text | various things that were in [metaphor] and as if in parables,
400 Text(9) | 6 Compare Aristotle, Metaphysica vi 2, 2 : "It is held by
401 Text | not any other body in the middle but only Space, which is
402 Note1 | relation to the number of the missing words. In respect to this
403 Text | For as these things again mix one with another unequally,
404 Text | that is to say 9Hliodro&moj, and from Fire, (that is) [
405 Text(9) | stigmh&) and its isolation (mona&s), are real (unsai/ai),
406 Text | air which sets things in motion (lit. the dragger of things)
407 Text | as soon as its wandering motions are concentrated in the
408 Text | between the clefts of a mountain, or in the opening through
409 Note2 | electronic source~I have moved the footnotes to the end.
410 Text | that is) [P. 27.] Purola&mpoj, and again from Water, Ph&
411 Text | has in it and within it (musical) tones, which convey a meaning
412 | must
413 Note1 | text has suffered great mutilation, italics indicate an attempt
414 | my
415 Text | incorporeal. ~There are these two natures only coming to meet one
416 Text | enough to fill up all our needs might incline towards them.
417 Text | that by making themselves needy the Fulness which is enough
418 | never
419 | none
420 Text | although (?) it is seen at noon on account of its nearness . . .
421 Text | called 'Places,' either [North] or [West].5 Now these are
422 Text(7) | word' ([Syriac]) and a Noun is called a 'name'. ~
423 | nowhere
424 Note2 | of Syriac. The pages are numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic
425 Note2 | are numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic numbers and line
426 Note1 | inverted commas are used in numerous cases where the words seem
427 Text | the light of the sun was obscured.] ... he (?) cannot see
428 Text | because it rises from the Ocean, on that account its appearance
429 | often
430 Text | over that former (?) limit. Oh ! what a thing is Contrivance !
431 Note2 | syriac]" or similar have been omitted, as it has not been possible
432 | once
433 Text | arrogant, how shall we sinful ones be arrogant in such matters
434 Text | thyself, (namely) if thou openest thy mouth wide and criest,
435 Text | of a mountain, or in the opening through a wall its breath
436 Text | But they do not agree in opinion as they agree in terms.
437 Text | inquiries of men who are opposed to their school of thought. ~
438 Text | that Dark and Light are the opposites of one another ; the opposite
439 Note1 | mark quotations where the original has [Syriac]~Single inverted
440 Text | thy lips a little on the outer side and makest with them
441 Text | and material (lit. solid) outflow. But effulgence perfume,
442 Text | light which is [l. 38.] outside (of the eye) that which
443 | over
444 Text | has been apprehended (lit. overtaken) by the hearing ; whereas
445 Text | reasoning continues to be overthrown and built up (afresh). And
446 Note2 | fragments of Syriac. The pages are numbered with Roman
447 Text | burning] in a Temple or a [Palace] the sight [compels] him
448 Text | nostrils, taste with the palate, but touch [with all] the
449 Note2 | printed at the back of the paper volume. ~
450 Note1 | conjectural translations or paraphrases.~In a few passages, where
451 Text | moon reaches, the lowest part [of the West], the light
452 Text | the inquiries of their own party and then exert themselves
453 Note1 | or paraphrases.~In a few passages, where the text has suffered
454 Text | many books, of seals, of pearls and the like. Again thou
455 Text | on this account also they penetrate to a distance (only) in
456 Text | who knows. For wise men, perfect and righteous, have humbled
457 Text | and subject to Time and performed within (the limits of) Time.
458 Text | i.e. the speakers) are Persians, the mind fails to perceive
459 Text | Breadth. There is no body or person who does not bear a Mark
460 Text | mpoj, and again from Water, Ph&gasoj, so there are among
461 Text | call incorporeal. But the Philosopher of the Syrians (i.e. Bardaisan)
462 Text | them together in a foolish phrase, saying that "Light, like
463 Text | sound, as if thou givest a piece of thy flesh or of thine
464 Text | collected in cisterns and pipes and (then) it ascends and
465 Text | the eye as it were into a pit ? And so too a fire by night
466 Text(5) | uncertain ; perhaps they are place-names. ~
467 Text | water that wanders in a plain. But in the dark, because
468 Text(2) | Introduction (Ei0sagwgh&) to the Platonic Dialogues, but the work
469 Text | distinguished from others, like the point which distinguishes one
470 Text(9) | outline (grammh&) and extreme points (stigmh&) and its isolation (
471 Text | lion, and before the artist portrays (anything) on the tablet,
472 Text | is nothing which does not possess Length and Breadth. There
473 Text | exist. And if these two (possibilities) cannot (both) be, Space
474 Note2 | omitted, as it has not been possible to transcribe the fragments
475 Text | unable to demonstrate (it) in practice. But that two places exist (?)
476 Note2 | relate to the Syriac text printed at the back of the paper
477 Text | O correct measure, which produces out of hurtful things advantages
478 Text | any craftsman who makes a promise about any craft which has.
479 Text | man looks into a basin of pure water he sees in the collected
480 Text | Fire, (that is) [P. 27.] Purola&mpoj, and again from Water,
481 Text | see that nowhere does it put us in the wrong ; for even
482 Text | so much (i.e. a definite quantity)." For if he supposes that
483 Text | day it is not seen even a quarter of this distance. ~* * * * * * * [
484 Text | not whether thy hearing be quick, and so also (with) thy
485 Text | no longer able to remain quiet: lo, our insignificance
486 Text(10)| gaudy attire in the Life of Rabbula 18919. The Note to p. 42,
487 Text | if a perfume or a voice reach to us we should all equally
488 Note2 | end. Those consisting of "Read [syriac] for [syriac]" or
489 Text | indeed, but cannot be (in reality). But I venture to say ...
490 Text | statement) the [P.12] former reasoning continues to be overthrown
491 Text | likewise clear for what reasons it is (called) a round. ~
492 Text | Space cannot exist and receive a name, that is to say,
493 Text | verbs which are used with reference to anything. And whereas
494 Text(2) | Dialogues, but the work here referred to is different and does
495 Text | turning back to it (i.e. are reflected towards the eye), they are
496 Text | then exert themselves to refute by their arguments the inquiries
497 Text | is incorporeal. For with regard to everything which is like
498 Note1 | square brackets are to be regarded as conjectural translations
499 Note2 | numbers and line numbers relate to the Syriac text printed
500 Text | it is no longer able to remain quiet: lo, our insignificance
501 Text | clear that the Space which remains has neither height nor depth.