Against Bardaisan





  • A DISCOURSE AGAINST BARDAISAN.
1. 1 The general metrical scheme of this piece is a stanza of eight lines of seven syllables each, but several stanzas [...]
2. 4 Lit. 'furnace,' as in lxxviii 5, 6, and elsewhere.
3. 2 Lit. 'root.'
4. 3 Stanza x, 1. 8, has only six syllables.
5. 2 Lit. 'furnace' : see lxxviii 5 f.
6. 3 Luke xxiv 39.
7. 2 Stanzas xxxi-xlii are preserved also in the upper writing of B.M. Add. 14623 : see Introduction.
8. 1 B.M. 17193 contains St. xxxiii-xlii, and B.M. Add. 14731 contains St. xxxiii-xxxvi, xli-xlii.
9. 2 Sinner] guilty, 14731.
10. 3 xxxv 3, and by that killing of Man, 17193. 4, Abel was the first killed one, 17193.
11. 4 Stanza xxxvi is legible in the Palimpsest, except the first line; it is preserved in the upper writing, also in B.[...]
12. 5 xxxvii 1. He] God, 17193 (unmetrically).
13. 1 See Vol. I, p. civ, and the Corrigenda in this volume.
14. 2 Lit. 'had been angry' ([Syriac], sic.), p. 156, 1. 30.
15. 3 Omit [Syriac] (sic), p. .156, 1. 34, so that Stanza lii, line 1, has only six syllables : see the Note at the begin[...]
16. 1 Stanzas lv and lvi together have only fourteen lines.
17. 2 Stanzas lvii and lviii together have only thirteen lines.
18. 1 Stanza lxi has nine lines.
19. 2 Stanza lxiii has only seven lines.
20. 1 Stanza lxxix has nine lines.
21. 4 John viii 51 f.
22. 5 I cannot translate this line, p. 164, 1. 24.
23. 1 For the ' Seven Limbos,' see p. 204, 1. 44 f.
24. 5 Stanzas lxxxvi-xciv are preserved also in the upper writing : see Introduction.
25. 6 injury]+then 14623 (unmetrically).
26. 7 John xi 23.
27. 1 He] our Lord, 14623 (unmetrically).
28. 2 Stanza lxxxviii is also preserved in B.M. Add. 12155 and 14532, without variation, except that 12155 reads 'He was[...]
29. 3 Stanza lxxxix has only seven lines.
30. 4 Stanza xc has ten lines.
31. 1 Stanza xciii has only seven lines.
32. 2 The first line of Stanza xciv (otherwise a regular one of eight lines) has a syllable short: see the Note at the b[...]


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