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1 [Title] | Vol. 1 Introduction, p. (10):~ ~[Short lacunae are indicated 2 [Title] | AGAINST BARDAISAN. 1~ ~[P. 143.]~ ~ 3 III | the judges -- of all [P. 144.] judgements that [are] 4 VII | physical) body -- whose [P. 145.] organs are equal in love, -- 5 [Title](28)| preserved in B.M. Add. 12155 and 14532, without variation, except 6 XI | persuades us about His [P. 146.] Birth -- that He put on 7 XIV | touch also should be a [P. 147.] test to Him ; -- there 8 XVIII | it is a House -- . ~[P. 148.] 9 XXII | take refuge, -- and [P. 149.] leaven out of all bosom[ 10 XXV | say about the end -- [P. 150.] we may say to them about 11 XXXI | to a question . which [P. 151.] is before this, -- that 12 XXXIV | death that is from God : [P. 152.] -- Free-will in its audacity -- 13 XXXVIII | goes in his time it [P. 153.] is a scandal -- for it 14 XLI | as regards Adam the [P. 154.] Just One made him die.~ ~ 15 XLV | Soul, -- that limpid [P. 155.] |l ii substance is also 16 LIII | were so, -- that things [P. 157.] should be so would be 17 LVII-LVIII | say their words, -- [P. 158.] who say that the Stranger -- 18 LXIV | LXIV. * ~[P.160] 19 LXVIII | had been raised . . - [p. 161.]~ * ~ ~ 20 LXXI | the type of that last [P. 162.] Thousand, -- in that as 21 LXXIV | be by our Lord ? " ~[P. 163.] 22 LXXXII | hindrance to Souls -- in [P. 165] that they were hindered 23 LXXXV | whence then did He say he [P.166] should rise -- from the 24 LXXXVIII | conducts himself is [P. 167.] thus glorified -- and 25 XCII | raised up -- in Him Life [P. 168.] reigned first, -- like 26 [Title](23)| Seven Limbos,' see p. 204, 1. 44 f. ~ ~ 27 [Title](26)| 7 John xi 23.~ ~ 28 [Title](22)| translate this line, p. 164, 1. 24.~ ~ 29 [Title](14)| Syriac], sic.), p. 156, 1. 30.~ ~ 30 [Title](15)| Syriac] (sic), p. .156, 1. 34, so that Stanza lii, line 31 [Title](6) | 3 Luke xxiv 39.~ ~ 32 [Title](23)| Limbos,' see p. 204, 1. 44 f. ~ ~ 33 [Title](21)| 4 John viii 51 f.~ ~ 34 [Title](26)| 7 John xi 23.~ ~ 35 XCVI | Thou hast satisfied me to abate my hunger, -- Thou hast 36 XXX | death, -- if when life abounds -- . ~ ~ 37 LXIII | spiritual substance -- that absorbs it in a subtle way. ~ ~ 38 XVII | Body cannot for ever -- be accompanied for ever by the soul.~ ~ 39 XLVIII | brought in -- he is to be accused because he taught -- that 40 XCV | failed we seem -- to have acquired the fortunes of Adam, -- 41 | across 42 LXXV | He lived by His glorious acts -- and the world lived in 43 XLIX | lower one . . -- does not adhere to the one higher than it, -- 44 LXXVIII | the fixing of them admonished [P. 164.] Thomas that He 45 VII | its fellow that is skilful admonishes it. -- Let the lover[s] 46 LXXXVI | not with teeth but with advice, -- He 27 too healed the 47 XIII | by a myriad trials -- the affair of our Lord is learnt, -- 48 XXII | the [seed], -- and when aforetime it was growing up in it -- 49 IX | common contest they are alike. -- For if our Lord put 50 | alone 51 LIV | that exist -- by the same analogy again is unable -- to arrange 52 [Title](14)| 2 Lit. 'had been angry' ([Syriac], sic.), p. 156, 53 XXXI | victory of her sister -- and announcing to her about Error, -- that 54 XIII | He put on, -- that not in appearance and fraud did He put it 55 IX | that from two sides, lo, is approached, -- that on two sides it 56 [Title] | words. In respect to this an approximately correct inference may be 57 [Title] | numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic numbers and line numbers 58 LX | the crown, -- that when arguing on behalf of the Soul -- 59 XXXI | had become a mark for the arrows -- that she also may begin 60 IV | IV. When by artifice Error judges -- that it 61 LXXXII | that He taught verity and ascended, -- and [brought] them across 62 XL | XL. Let us turn aside now from these things -- 63 XXXIV | its audacity -- made an assault on Abel in its envy, -- 64 [Title] | mutilation, italics indicate an attempt to summarise the argument 65 IV | Verity [come] -- if open audacities have changed it, -- for 66 XXXIV | 152.] -- Free-will in its audacity -- made an assault on Abel 67 [Title](11)| probably irregular owing to the author, not to a defect in the 68 XCVI | Thou hast made me hungry to awake my supplication.~ ~END OF 69 | became 70 | beforehand 71 XCVI | and hunger ceases not to beg ; -- Thou hast satisfied 72 XXIV | Will [of] the Creator -- begat the wealth of diversities -- 73 LXXVI | earth was full of living beings, -- and on his account only 74 [Title] | seem to be quotations or to belong to a special terminology.~ ~ 75 XXXI | that she may not be bereaved by having been left -- let 76 | beside 77 LXXXVI | that Primal Serpent -- had bitten the Primal Adam -- not with 78 V | to fruit sweet [and bitter] -- the mouth teaches the 79 XIV | For a spirit hath not bones" ; 6 -- in truth He put 80 LXIX | though as yet they were not born, -- from the womb . . ~ ~ 81 VIII | loosed -- His truth has borne away the crown.~ ~ 82 [Title] | in italics inside square brackets are to be regarded as conjectural 83 XLV | because of its weight -- breaks away from the limpid Soul, -- 84 LXV | it becomes] -- and like a breath it is for a while -- and 85 LXXXI | Body, -- are exalted to the Bridal chamber of Light! ~ ~ 86 LXXXV | died -- had gone up to the Bridal-chamber of Light -- an injury 25 87 LXXXVI | in that sin the |lxx ii bringer of pains -- He was rooting 88 LXXI | raised up in Sheol, -- He brings all that are [there], -- 89 LXXXV | to Martha, that "Thy Brother shall rise," 26 -- from 90 XC | at, -- in both worlds he carries disgrace : -- by the steps 91 [Title] | commas are used in numerous cases where the words seem to 92 LXXXIII | had come. LXXXIV. He is caught in one of two things : -- 93 LXXIV | astray ;] -- he has died, and caused all [his comrades] to die. -- " 94 XCVI | how to ask, -- and hunger ceases not to beg ; -- Thou hast 95 LXXXI | are exalted to the Bridal chamber of Light! ~ ~ 96 XXXIX | explain) how -- there should chance in the one hour -- the hidden 97 IV | if open audacities have changed it, -- for its victory in 98 [Title](13)| 1 See Vol. I, p. civ, and the Corrigenda in this 99 LXXIX | did not raise, -- it is clear that the death of the Soul -- 100 LXXVII | for his eye did not [see] clearly, -- that when he was declaring 101 XLVI | is more [turbid] than it cleaves to it.~ ~ 102 XV | proclaims that our Lord was clothed with a Body, -- Contention 103 LVII-LVIII | the life of the Soul its colleague ?~ ~ 104 III | the judges, -- for Verity [cometh] in judgement; -- by its 105 LXXXVI | healed the wound -- with commands and not with drugs.~ ~ 106 IX | involves the other -- in the common contest they are alike. -- 107 XLIV | with -- the Soul and is its companion, -- they say cannot cleave 108 X | X. Compare, then, and let us take the [ 109 LXXIV | died, and caused all [his comrades] to die. -- " Our Lord also, ( 110 LXXXVIII | that every one who thus -- conducts himself is [P. 167.] thus 111 XIV | XIV. [When] He confessed His [mys]tery to Thomas, -- 112 LXXX | For he has confused and dissolved words -- to 113 [Title] | brackets are to be regarded as conjectural translations or paraphrases.~ ~ 114 XC | that the Tree gave; -- He conjoined with him his life, -- the 115 XCI | raised up, -- and he did not consider that the death also of Adam -- 116 LXXXI | his argument, -- for he considered about this same death -- 117 [Title] | footnotes to the end. Those consisting of "Read [syriac] for [syriac]" 118 LV-LVI | understand as -- the Body consists by the Soul, -- the heavy 119 XXXV | and Free-will is not constrained.~ ~ 120 [Title] | inference may be drawn by consulting the Syriac text.~ ~Double 121 [Title](28)| has nine lines in all four copies.~ ~ 122 [Title] | to this an approximately correct inference may be drawn by 123 XV | how much more will His correctness justify us ?~ ~ 124 [Title](13)| Vol. I, p. civ, and the Corrigenda in this volume.~ ~ 125 LIV | exist; -- for He did not create the existence -- therefore 126 XXI | for they exist in one creation -- and from one Air are 127 LII | midst of him dwells Life, -- creative power holds him firm. ~ ~ 128 LXXXIII | not hindered -- when it crosses at the Crossing-place -- 129 XII | from all] sides -- are crying out about that one which 130 [Title] | l.2] means line 2 of the current page of the accompanying 131 LXXXIX | to confusion -- and was cursed and went forth and was brought 132 LII | from Wind, -- his |lxxiii dampness from Water, -- his dryness 133 XXXVII | of the killers who have dared to kill, -- and is far also 134 XCIV | shall be ours for another day, -- that we may gain by 135 LXV | lo, when the heavy one de[parts] -- [there departs] 136 VIII | VIII. A true decision bears witness -- that the 137 I | I. BARDAISAN, lo, declares -- that even without the 138 LXXVII | clearly, -- that when he was declaring about Adam, -- he that has 139 XXXIII | XXXIII.8 The death that God decreed -- for Adam after he sinned, -- 140 LXXXV | the height, or from the deep ?~ ~ 141 [Title](11)| to the author, not to a defect in the transmission.~ ~ 142 LXXIII | and there comes the Deluge of Fire -- in the midst 143 LXI | with] Light -- it also is denser than Light; -- the Soul 144 LXXXIX | and was brought low -- and departed and was undone and destroyed, -- 145 LXV | one de[parts] -- [there departs] also the light part, -- 146 I | height and the other its depth.~ ~ 147 LXXXI | in every place -- in all depths and Limbos 23 -- and that " 148 XCIV | gain by our disputation -- discoveries about our Faith. ~ ~ 149 II | II. His opinion is diseased, similar -- to the infirmity 150 XXXII | in disgrace, -- they were disgraced and have returned in honour ; -- 151 LXXX | For he has confused and dissolved words -- to the confusion 152 XXV | XXV. That Error much distresses me -- . .. in the Beginning, -- 153 XLI | he died first," -- and disturb the comparison -- that is 154 XXIV | Creator -- begat the wealth of diversities -- that are regarded as 155 LIX | to the Reason which is Divine. |lx ~ ~ 156 LXXXII | LXXXII. According to the doctrine of Bardaisan -- the Death 157 XXXV | they stand in the domain -- of Justice and of Free-will, -- 158 [Title] | consulting the Syriac text.~ ~Double inverted commas mark quotations 159 XXII | bosom[s] -- in the mass of dough takes refuge alone. -- The 160 I | Spirit, -- that the dregs run downward -- and the fine material 161 [Title] | correct inference may be drawn by consulting the Syriac 162 I | cleave to Spirit, -- that the dregs run downward -- and the 163 LXXXVI | with commands and not with drugs.~ ~ 164 LII | dampness from Water, -- his dryness from the Dust; -- in the 165 LII | in the midst of him dwells Life, -- creative power 166 | each 167 XV | Contention stops up its ears -- and in perversity proclaims 168 LIX | cleave to the Soul, being earthy, -- neither can it (the 169 LXII | Wind, -- for everything is easy to the Possessor of all 170 [Title] | Note of the electronic source~ ~I have moved the 171 XVI | Error -- not when . . -- the eloquent ... to run, -- but . . . 172 | elsewhere 173 LXIII | bodily substance -- that embodies it in a hard form, -- and 174 LXXIII | are delivered ; -- like Enoch the living [are] snatched 175 XXXIV | an assault on Abel in its envy, -- and brought in lulling 176 VII | whose [P. 145.] organs are equal in love, -- for the sound 177 LXXIV | and wishes to make us also err therein, -- in this [he 178 [Title] | asterisks intended to bear any exact relation to the number of 179 LXXXI | within the Body, -- are exalted to the Bridal chamber of 180 XIV | who by touch wished to examine Him, -- He gave His Body 181 [Title](11)| which come from another exemplar. Yet in all these the stanza 182 LX | therefore no contest -- to expla[in] and persuade them -- 183 XXXIX | explanation, -- for it is hard (to explain) how -- there should chance 184 XXXIX | however much, lo, they are explained -- these things have need 185 XXXIX | these things have need of explanation, -- for it is hard (to explain) 186 XCV | strengthened, -- and where he failed we seem -- to have acquired 187 XCIV | discoveries about our Faith. ~ ~ 188 XCV | XCV. Where he has fallen we have risen, -- and where 189 XLIII | the Body) is undone and falls to pieces, -- the Power 190 XC | verity -- instead of the falsehood that the Serpent gave him, -- 191 XXXI | run to meet her -- holding fast the victory of her sister -- 192 XXXIII | whereby men kill their fellow-men ; -- the killing of Abel 193 LXXXVIII | glorified -- and he that fights thus conquers -- and he 194 LXXX | LXXX. He [finis]hes his word with another, -- " 195 X | the Birth -- and go on to finish with the Death -- and include 196 LII | creative power holds him firm. ~ ~ 197 LXXI | delivered -- one that flew away and one that was rescued. ~ ~ 198 LXV | it is for a while -- and flies away lightly.~ ~ 199 LXVI | ones as he says, -- in all Folds and Limbos -- If there be 200 [Title] | source~ ~I have moved the footnotes to the end. Those consisting 201 VI | mayest learn thereby the force of the words.~ ~ 202 LXIII | that embodies it in a hard form, -- and if the heat be fierce -- 203 VI | the eye which sees [all forms] -- is obedient to the mouth 204 LXXXIX | and was cursed and went forth and was brought low -- and 205 XCV | to have acquired the fortunes of Adam, -- in that wickedness 206 | found 207 [Title](28)| lxxxviii has nine lines in all four copies.~ ~ 208 [Title](16)| and lvi together have only fourteen lines.~ ~ 209 XIII | that not in appearance and fraud did He put it on.~ ~ 210 L | if they are acceptable as friends, -- all these Entities to 211 V | mouth also is a test2 -- to fruit sweet [and bitter] -- the 212 VI | thereby the wholesomeness] of fruits ; [so] also the inexperience -- 213 LXXVIII | the furnace -- have become furnaces (i.e. tests) for our Truth ; -- 214 XCIV | another day, -- that we may gain by our disputation -- discoveries 215 [Title] | translation by dots, and longer gaps by asterisks, but in neither 216 [Title](1) | 1 The general metrical scheme of this 217 XCI | of it had spread in all generations.~ ~ 218 LVII-LVIII | Life into the Entities and girded them ; -- how to strange 219 XCVI | XCVI. I give thanks to Thee, my Lord, -- 220 II | who came -- should have given Life here below -- that 221 LXXXVIII | himself is [P. 167.] thus glorified -- and he that fights thus 222 LXXV | but He lived by His glorious acts -- and the world lived 223 LXXXVIII | and was raised and put on glory ; -- and He taught that 224 LXXIX | raise up the Bodies from the grave ; -- but if the Bodies He 225 [Title] | where the text has suffered great mutilation, italics indicate 226 LXXIV | therein, -- in this [he has greatly gone astray ;] -- he has 227 XXII | mode of [its species] it grew up.~ ~ 228 XCVI | not stinted me that I may grow, -- and Thou hast not filled 229 XXII | and when aforetime it was growing up in it -- in the mode 230 XIV | Body to the touch of the hand, -- that the sense of touch 231 | hath 232 XXXI | she may not be bereaved by having been left -- let Truth then 233 LXXXVI | with advice, -- He 27 too healed the wound -- with commands 234 XL | inexperienced folk who have heard have suffered loss -- of 235 VI | inexperience -- of the ear that hears all words -- (is obedient) 236 VI | is obedient) to the heart that tries all words -- 237 XLVIII | he taught -- that one is heavier1 than its fellow -- and one 238 XXXIX | killer with his weapon be held guilty.~ ~ 239 LXXX | LXXX. He [finis]hes his word with another, -- " 240 XXXVIII | killed him, -- yet God is high -- above accident and also 241 L | by one another, -- that Highest One who gave them their 242 XLII | opportunity for thee to hinder the inexperienced -- in 243 XLV | from that Power which took hold of it. ~ ~ 244 XXXI | then run to meet her -- holding fast the victory of her 245 XXXII | disgraced and have returned in honour ; -- Body and Soul entered 246 XXXII | in Paradise -- they were honoured and returned in disgrace, -- 247 XVIII | if we say that it is a House -- . ~[P. 148.] 248 | however 249 X | include in the middle -- His human mode of life.4~ ~ 250 LI | and if as the Good One He humiliated Himself -- unto the middle ( 251 XCVI | hunger, -- Thou hast made me hungry to awake my supplication.~ ~ 252 LXXVIII | have become furnaces (i.e. tests) for our Truth ; -- 253 XLI | XLI. And that ignorant folk may not go astray, -- 254 II | II. His opinion is diseased, 255 III | III. But our judges are judged -- 256 LXXXVIII | depicted -- and a likeness He impressed -- and a mirror He fixed 257 XLVI | turbid one because of the impurities, -- [to] the limpid one 258 X | finish with the Death -- and include in the middle -- His human 259 | indeed 260 LIII | that it is an Entity it is indestructible, -- in that it is an Entity 261 [Title] | great mutilation, italics indicate an attempt to summarise 262 [Title] | 10):~ ~[Short lacunae are indicated in the translation by dots, 263 [Title] | the fragments.]~ ~[P.101] indicates page 101 of the accompanying 264 [Title] | an approximately correct inference may be drawn by consulting 265 II | diseased, similar -- to the infirmity of Bardaisan, -- his whole 266 [Title] | terminology.~ ~Words in italics inside square brackets are to be 267 LXXIX | LXXIX.20 Bardaisan insists that if so be -- that these 268 [Title] | of the dots or asterisks intended to bear any exact relation 269 XL | are concerned with ; -- an investigation against those in error -- 270 XXXII | Body and Soul have been invited -- to Paradise, and in Paradise -- 271 IX | crowned, -- for in that one involves the other -- in the common 272 [Title](11)| eight lines, are probably irregular owing to the author, not 273 | itself 274 IV | IV. When by artifice Error 275 IX | IX. Our disputation has entered 276 XXXII | resurrection again they are joined. |lx ~ ~ 277 XXXV | By that sentence from the Judge -- Adam died first, -- by 278 III | judges -- of all [P. 144.] judgements that [are] judged in error. -- 279 XV | more will His correctness justify us ?~ ~ 280 LXXXVI | LXXXVI. As a Physician He did justly -- in that sin the |lxx ii 281 LI | have reconciled -- that His kindness might not suffer loss.~ ~ 282 LXXXII | brought] them across into the Kingdom."~ ~ 283 XCIII | the Dead -- that, lo, is kneaded in the bosom of Sheol, -- 284 XXXVII | XXXVII. He12 Who knew beforehand that the killed -- 285 XCVI | that I may ask. -- Satiety knows not how to ask, -- and hunger 286 LX | behalf, -- for them the labour and for us the crown, -- 287 VII | against Error -- that [our] lack may be filled -- . ~ ~ 288 [Title] | Introduction, p. (10):~ ~[Short lacunae are indicated in the translation 289 LXXXV | LXXXV.24 For if Lazarus when he died -- had gone 290 XIII | the affair of our Lord is learnt, -- that in the Body He 291 XXXI | bereaved by having been left -- let Truth then run to 292 [Title](11)| 4 Stanza xxxvi is legible in the Palimpsest, except 293 | less 294 L | One who gave them their level -- does not treat the lowest 295 LI | LI. For on one side of the 296 XIII | The Truth is living and life-giving to all, -- lo, the |lxviii 297 LXV | while -- and flies away lightly.~ ~ 298 LIII | LIII. And even if these (theories) 299 LXXXVIII | example He depicted -- and a likeness He impressed -- and a mirror 300 LIV | LIV. That Creator Who is unable -- 301 XL | the merchandise of their lives.~ ~ 302 LIX | LIX. "Reason," as they say, -- " 303 [Title] | translation by dots, and longer gaps by asterisks, but in 304 LXXVII | on the one side he looked only -- and not even on 305 VIII | with life that cannot be loosed -- His truth has borne away 306 VIII | to a principle 3 -- that looses the fixing of its life, -- 307 IX | rewarded it, -- because it lost its life there.~ ~ 308 VII | 145.] organs are equal in love, -- for the sound organ 309 VII | admonishes it. -- Let the lover[s] of truth also become -- 310 LXXXIX | went forth and was brought low -- and departed and was 311 [Title](6) | 3 Luke xxiv 39.~ ~ 312 XCIII | alive spread -- in all the lump of the Dead -- that, lo, 313 LX | LX. We have therefore no contest -- 314 LXII | LXII. Let us demonstrate therefore 315 LXIV | LXIV. * ~[P.160] 316 LXIX | LXIX. . . . in Adam . . . all . . . 317 LXV | LXV. [And if so be] that Bardaisan 318 LXVI | LXVI. Lo, . . -- of the Entities 319 LXVII | LXVII. * ~ ~ 320 LXVIII | LXVIII. When the resurrection comes 321 LXX | LXX. * ~ ~ 322 LXXI | LXXI. The Second Adam also -- . . 323 LXXI | resurrection makes them alive. LXXII. For that first Thousand -- 324 LXXIII | LXXIII. Our Lord also in the last 325 LXXIV | LXXIV. But Bardaisan in this has 326 LXXV | LXXV. Lo, Adam not at the moment -- 327 LXXVI | LXXVI. In the hour that Adam died 328 LXXVII | LXXVII. It did not suffice Bardaisan 329 LXXVIII | the Messiah has made alive]LXXVIIL But he does not know that 330 LXXX | LXXX. He [finis]hes his word 331 LXXXI | LXXXI. And [the] word the argument 332 LXXXII | LXXXII. According to the doctrine 333 LXXXIII | LXXXIII. "Therefore," he says, " 334 LXXXIII | before our Saviour had come. LXXXIV. He is caught in one of 335 LXXXV | LXXXV.24 For if Lazarus when he 336 LXXXVI | LXXXVI. As a Physician He did justly -- 337 [Title](24)| 5 Stanzas lxxxvi-xciv are preserved also in the 338 LXXXVII | LXXXVII. If the Soul it was He came 339 LXXXVII | to conquer and to crown]LXXXVIL If the Soul it was He came 340 LXXXVI | He was rooting out from mankind ; -- for that Primal Serpent -- 341 LXXIII | snatched away, -- in the manner of Noah the Dead are rescued.~ ~ 342 | many 343 LXXXV | our Lord was saying -- to Martha, that "Thy Brother shall 344 XXII | of all bosom[s] -- in the mass of dough takes refuge alone. -- 345 LVII-LVIII | His Life. -- But if by the Master the servants lived, -- how 346 I | downward -- and the fine material upward, -- and . . -- the 347 [Title] | accompanying Syriac. [l.2] means line 2 of the current page 348 XXXI | let Truth then run to meet her -- holding fast the 349 XL | suffered loss -- of the merchandise of their lives.~ ~ 350 [Title](1) | 1 The general metrical scheme of this piece is 351 LXXXVIII | likeness He impressed -- and a mirror He fixed by His Body, -- 352 [Title] | relation to the number of the missing words. In respect to this 353 XLIV | XLIV. If the Body, that is mixed with -- the Soul and is 354 XXXI | that she also may begin to mock at it.~ ~ 355 XC | In both worlds he is mocked at, -- in both worlds he 356 XCIII | living Leaven will conquer mortality. ~ ~ 357 XXII | that in the bosom of its mother it may take refuge, -- and [ 358 [Title] | electronic source~ ~I have moved the footnotes to the end. 359 [Title] | text has suffered great mutilation, italics indicate an attempt 360 XIII | witness to it. -- For lo, by a myriad trials -- the affair of 361 XIV | When] He confessed His [mys]tery to Thomas, -- who by 362 II | Bardaisan, -- his whole mythology is sickly. -- "For if," 363 | namely 364 LXII | demonstrate therefore that all -- Natures are devoured by one another, -- 365 XXXIX | explained -- these things have need of explanation, -- for it 366 | no 367 LXXIII | away, -- in the manner of Noah the Dead are rescued.~ ~ 368 XXI | and from one Air are nourished -- and by one Death are 369 [Title] | of Syriac. The pages are numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic 370 [Title] | are numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic numbers and line 371 [Title] | inverted commas are used in numerous cases where the words seem 372 LXXXIII | like the hindrance of old -- wherewith the Souls were 373 [Title](15)| 3 Omit [Syriac] (sic), p. .156, 374 [Title] | syriac]" or similar have been omitted, as it has not been possible 375 IV | has Verity [come] -- if open audacities have changed 376 II | II. His opinion is diseased, similar -- 377 XLII | this will there be -- an opportunity for thee to hinder the inexperienced -- 378 XXII | bosom of the earth is the opposite of the [seed], -- and when 379 XXIV | that are regarded as opposites, -- or that there are Entities, 380 VII | VII. Let us be like to the ordinary (physical) body -- whose [ 381 [Title] | mark quotations where the original has [Syriac]~ ~Single inverted 382 | otherwise 383 [Title](11)| are probably irregular owing to the author, not to a 384 [Title] | fragments of Syriac. The pages are numbered with Roman 385 LXXXVI | sin the |lxx ii bringer of pains -- He was rooting out from 386 [Title] | printed at the back of the paper volume. ~ ~ ~ ~ 387 [Title] | conjectural translations or paraphrases.~ ~In a few passages, where 388 LXV | departs] also the light part, -- like a vapour [and a 389 LXV | lo, when the heavy one de[parts] -- [there departs] also 390 [Title] | paraphrases.~ ~In a few passages, where the text has suffered 391 XCII | and as with Adam after a period -- his Death reigned over 392 LX | contest -- to expla[in] and persuade them -- that are thrown 393 XI | Error ; -- in that His Death persuades us about His [P. 146.] Birth -- 394 VII | be like to the ordinary (physical) body -- whose [P. 145.] 395 LXXXVI | LXXXVI. As a Physician He did justly -- in that 396 [Title](1) | metrical scheme of this piece is a stanza of eight lines 397 XLIII | is undone and falls to pieces, -- the Power also that 398 LXXXI | which are hindered in every place -- in all depths and Limbos 23 -- 399 LXIII | LXIII.19 Water again is placed in the middle -- between 400 LXXV | and the world lived in the pledge He gave.~ ~ 401 L | those that are light, -- and possess and are possessed by one 402 L | and possess and are possessed by one another, -- that 403 LXII | everything is easy to the Possessor of all things.~ ~ 404 [Title] | omitted, as it has not been possible to transcribe the fragments 405 XXXIV | of Abel the righteous was previous -- to the death of Adam 406 VIII | turned the Body to a principle 3 -- that looses the fixing 407 [Title] | relate to the Syriac text printed at the back of the paper 408 LXXXV | him back to his body the Prison-house ; -- and that which our 409 [Title](11)| than the eight lines, are probably irregular owing to the author, 410 LXXXIX | is wickedness -- even his profit is loss.~ ~ 411 LXV | like a vapour [and a puff of air (?) it becomes] -- 412 XXXI | turn for a little -- to a question . which [P. 151.] is before 413 LXXIII | in the last Thousand -- raises the Dead by His resurrection -- 414 [Title] | end. Those consisting of "Read [syriac] for [syriac]" or 415 [Title](28)| variation, except that 12155 reads 'He was' for 'that was' 416 II | that he might render recompense for the usury paid."~ ~ 417 LXXIV | undoing was in Adam -- their reconstruction should be by our Lord ? " ~[ 418 XLVI | limpid one because of its refinement. -- If the one is for ever 419 LV-LVI | similar to the Body -- in regard to the Power that is more 420 [Title](32)| Stanza xciv (otherwise a regular one of eight lines) has 421 XCII | His Resurrection was reigning over all, -- that the usuries 422 [Title] | numbers and line numbers relate to the Syriac text printed 423 XXIV | Entities, strangers -- and not related to one another -- and . . .~ ~ 424 [Title] | intended to bear any exact relation to the number of the missing 425 II | here below -- that he might render recompense for the usury 426 XXXIII | was from the justice that requited him.~ ~ 427 [Title] | of the missing words. In respect to this an approximately 428 XCIV | its Resurrection ; -- the rest of the discourse of it which 429 LXVIII | this comes to pass as the result of it; -- and if every one 430 XLV | of the Body -- the same retribution comes to it (the Soul) -- 431 IX | the life of Paradise He rewarded it, -- because it lost its 432 XCV | Where he has fallen we have risen, -- and where he has slipped 433 [Title] | pages are numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic numbers 434 [Title](3) | 2 Lit. 'root.' ~ ~ 435 LXXXVI | bringer of pains -- He was rooting out from mankind ; -- for 436 XCI | the Body of our Lord rose only -- Bardaisan erred 437 [Title] | the accompanying Syriac. [RP]~ ~ ~ ~ 438 LXXXIII | what is that which he said about our Lord. -- that 439 XCVI | me, so that I may ask. -- Satiety knows not how to ask, -- 440 XCVI | not to beg ; -- Thou hast satisfied me to abate my hunger, -- 441 [Title](1) | 1 The general metrical scheme of this piece is a stanza 442 LXXI | LXXI. The Second Adam also -- . . and was 443 XCI | XCI. Seeing that of all Bodies that 444 VIII | life, -- for if we have seen that our Lord also -- fixed 445 VI | inexperience -- of the eye which sees [all forms] -- is obedient 446 XIV | of the hand, -- that the sense of touch also should be 447 LVII-LVIII | But if by the Master the servants lived, -- how much more 448 XXXVII | killers -- by the lulling set a bound to their life -- 449 | several 450 II | his whole mythology is sickly. -- "For if," says he, "[ 451 V | eye that has erred by the sight.~ ~ 452 [Title] | original has [Syriac]~ ~Single inverted commas are used 453 LXXIII | midst of which the Wicked sink -- and the Righteous in 454 LXXIX | Adam brought in by his sins, -- for the Souls which 455 XXXI | fast the victory of her sister -- and announcing to her 456 VII | stumbled -- its fellow that is skilful admonishes it. -- Let the 457 XIX | XIX. For a snare, lo, is spread -- . ~ ~ 458 LXXIII | like Enoch the living [are] snatched away, -- in the manner of 459 | some 460 LXXXIX | that he sinned and was sorry and brought to confusion -- 461 VII | equal in love, -- for the sound organ that has stumbled -- 462 [Title] | Note of the electronic source~ ~I have moved the footnotes 463 [Title] | quotations or to belong to a special terminology.~ ~Words in 464 XXII | it -- in the mode of [its species] it grew up.~ ~ 465 XCIV | argument of ours has been spoken -- about the Body and about 466 LXXI | resurrection drew nigh -- there sprang upon them the voice of .... -- 467 [Title] | Words in italics inside square brackets are to be regarded 468 XXXV | killed first; 10 -- they stand in the domain -- of Justice 469 XC | carries disgrace : -- by the steps that Adam went down, -- 470 XV | with a Body, -- Contention stops up its ears -- and in perversity 471 XCV | has slipped we have been strengthened, -- and where he failed 472 LI | Entities) which were at strife,14 -- all of them with all 473 XLI | the comparison -- that is struck between our Lord and Adam : -- 474 LX | on their behalf -- their struggle will be on our behalf, -- 475 LX | the contest; -- and when struggling on their behalf -- their 476 LXXXI | something else -- he makes into stuff for his argument, -- for 477 VII | the sound organ that has stumbled -- its fellow that is skilful 478 LXII | devoured by one another, -- substances' both corporeal and spiritual. -- 479 XXXVII | killed man who is killed by sudden death.~ ~ 480 LI | that His kindness might not suffer loss.~ ~ 481 LXXXVIII | was victorious and tasted suffering -- and was raised and put 482 XCIV | And now if so be this suffices, -- as also it does suffice, -- 483 [Title] | summarise the argument from suggestions in the fragments.]~ ~[P. 484 [Title] | italics indicate an attempt to summarise the argument from suggestions 485 LXIII | middle -- between Winter and Summer, -- so that if the cold 486 XCVI | made me hungry to awake my supplication.~ ~END OF DISCOURSE AGAINST 487 LXXXIX | taught that every one whose support is wickedness -- even his 488 XVI | with Him -- his running surpasses their running, -- as . . . 489 V | also is a test2 -- to fruit sweet [and bitter] -- the mouth 490 XXII | in the mass of dough takes refuge alone. -- The bosom 491 V | and bitter] -- the mouth teaches the taste -- to the eye 492 LXXXVI | Primal Adam -- not with teeth but with advice, -- He 27 493 [Title](30)| 4 Stanza xc has ten lines.~ ~ 494 [Title] | or to belong to a special terminology.~ ~Words in italics inside 495 XIV | When] He confessed His [mys]tery to Thomas, -- who by touch 496 LXXVIII | have become furnaces (i.e. tests) for our Truth ; -- the 497 XCVI | XCVI. I give thanks to Thee, my Lord, -- that 498 LIII | LIII. And even if these (theories) were so, -- that things [ 499 LXXVII | that has slipped in one thing -- has slipped in everything.~ ~ 500 XVI | XVI. But I think that Truth -- thus conquers 501 [Title](17)| lviii together have only thirteen lines.~ ~ 502 [Title](1) | too few or too many and three lines are a syllable too 503 | through 504 LX | persuade them -- that are thrown into the contest; -- and 505 | Thy 506 XLV | from that Power which took hold of it. ~ ~ 507 XII | For our Lord has fixed the traditions -- of His truth like the 508 [Title] | has not been possible to transcribe the fragments of Syriac. 509 VIII | bears witness -- that the transgression of Adam -- turned the Body 510 [Title](22)| 5 I cannot translate this line, p. 164, 1. 24.~ ~ 511 [Title] | lacunae are indicated in the translation by dots, and longer gaps 512 [Title] | regarded as conjectural translations or paraphrases.~ ~In a few 513 [Title](11)| not to a defect in the transmission.~ ~ 514 XC | instead of Death that the Tree gave; -- He conjoined with 515 XIII | For lo, by a myriad trials -- the affair of our Lord 516 VIII | VIII. A true decision bears witness -- 517 XI | one to the other -- His truths that bound Error ; -- in 518 LXXI | first Thousand -- is the type of that last [P. 162.] Thousand, -- 519 LIII | that it is an Entity it is unarrangeable.~ ~ 520 LV-LVI | by this moreover we shall understand as -- the Body consists 521 LXXIV | Bodies, -- that as their undoing was in Adam -- their reconstruction 522 | unto 523 I | and the fine material upward, -- and . . -- the one its 524 | used 525 XCII | reigning over all, -- that the usuries paid might be like to one 526 II | render recompense for the usury paid."~ ~ 527 V | V. To the word of truth . . . 528 LXV | the light part, -- like a vapour [and a puff of air (?) it 529 [Title](28)| 12155 and 14532, without variation, except that 12155 reads ' 530 VI | VI. For that inexperience -- 531 III | by its truth it is the victor -- of the wickedness hidden 532 LXXXVIII | by His Body, -- that was victorious and tasted suffering -- 533 VII | VII. Let us be like to the ordinary ( 534 XII | organ -- the Body all of it wails -- and the organs [from 535 LXXVIII | witness to His dying. -- the Watchers bear witness to His Resurrection, -- 536 LXIII | that absorbs it in a subtle way. ~ ~ 537 XXXVI | the beginning -- the two ways of death, -- one of sentence 538 LI | Good One ? -- and if He be weak, how is He the Creator ? -- 539 LI | of the two is with him -- weakness or wickedness ; -- but if 540 XXIV | the Creator -- begat the wealth of diversities -- that are 541 XXXIX | and the killer with his weapon be held guilty.~ ~ 542 | Well 543 | whence 544 | whereby 545 LXXXIII | the hindrance of old -- wherewith the Souls were hindered -- 546 | while 547 | whole 548 VI | mayest learn [thereby the wholesomeness] of fruits ; [so] also the 549 XLIII | upon another Power depends wholly -- namely, on that Power 550 | why 551 LXIII | in the middle -- between Winter and Summer, -- so that if 552 XII | contention and Error -- wish to cut off an organ -- the 553 XIV | Thomas, -- who by touch wished to examine Him, -- He gave 554 LXXIV | in this has erred -- and wishes to make us also err therein, -- 555 | within 556 LXIX | were not born, -- from the womb . . ~ ~ 557 XXI | are cut off -- and to one Working are obedient. |lx ~ ~ 558 LXXXVI | He 27 too healed the wound -- with commands and not 559 XCI | XCI. Seeing that of all Bodies 560 XCII | XCII. Our Lord also when He was 561 XCV | XCV. Where he has fallen we 562 XCVI | XCVI. I give thanks to Thee, 563 XII | XII. For our Lord has fixed 564 XIII | XIII. The Truth is living and 565 XIV | XIV. [When] He confessed His [ 566 XIX | XIX. For a snare, lo, is spread -- . ~ ~ 567 XL | XL. Let us turn aside now from 568 XLI | XLI. And that ignorant folk 569 [Title](8) | contains St. xxxiii-xxxvi, xli-xlii.~ ~ 570 XLII | XLII. But not even for this will 571 XLIII | XLIII. If the Body depends upon 572 XLIV | XLIV. If the Body, that is mixed 573 XLIX | XLIX. If the lower one . . -- 574 XLV | XLV. Well, then, let us also 575 XLVI | XLVI. For to both of them it ( 576 XLVII | XLVII. For it is not the Power 577 XLVIII | XLVIII. As for the Entities that 578 XV | XV. For even if ... -- proclaims 579 XVI | XVI. But I think that Truth -- 580 XVII | XVII. * ~ for what reason and 581 XVIII | XVIII. [For] if we say that it 582 XX | XX. And if . . .~ ~ 583 XXI | XXI. These things that [are] 584 XXII | XXII. But see the seed, that 585 XXIII | XXIII. * ~ ~ 586 XXIX | XXIX. * ~ ~ 587 XXV | XXV. That Error much distresses 588 XXVI | XXVI. I know that if . . .~ ~ 589 XXVII | XXVII. * ~ ~ 590 XXVIII | XXVIII. * ~ ~ 591 XXX | XXX. What good therefore [has] 592 XXXI | XXXI.7 Now let us turn for a 593 [Title](7) | 2 Stanzas xxxi-xlii are preserved also in the 594 XXXII | XXXII. Body and Soul have been 595 XXXIII | XXXIII.8 The death that God decreed -- 596 [Title](8) | B.M. 17193 contains St. xxxiii-xlii, and B.M. Add. 14731 contains 597 [Title](8) | Add. 14731 contains St. xxxiii-xxxvi, xli-xlii.~ ~ 598 XXXIV | XXXIV. It was not the case then 599 XXXIX | XXXIX. But however much, lo, they 600 XXXVIII | XXXVIII. If therefore one who is
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