Perí hierōsýnēs (De sacerdotio) of St. John Chrysostom

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4. Aster Hoeschel no separate edition of the de sace dotio appeared sor more than a Centiary. But in I 6 IO, eleven years after the publication os Hoeschers book, there appeared the first volume os the great edition in Greek of the complete ivorks os Chrysostom by Sir Henry Savile'. This Work has rustly earneci forSavile a reputation as one of the most eminent Greelc

libro' diligenser minuia, errata sussuli, laconas explevi, lectionis varietaum anno avi. '' Tos ἐν ἁγίοις πατρὸς ὴμων ἹΩΑΝΝΟΥ Ἀρχιεπισκόπου Κωνσταντινου- πόλεως του XΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΥ των εὐρισκομένων T ins πρωτος κτλ. δι ἐπιμελείας καὶ ἀνάλωμάτων ΕΡΡΙΚΟΥ του ΣΑΒΙΛΙΟΥ ἐκ παλαιων ἀντιγράφων ἐκδοθείς. Elonae I 6 Ia etc.

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scholam that this count has priκluced; and in many respecis it exhibita a scientific Conception os the cluties os an editor xvhicli it xvould lifficult to parallel untii

on a great SCale publislied in Englanci . Savde telis us that as the basis of his o vn textos the de sace otio he used that of Ηo chel: biit had corrected it mih the aid of tivo manus ripis at Oxsores,one in the library os Corpus Christi College, the other in that of New College. The amolint os nexu materialthat he utiliged in the case of this treatise was thiis Comparatively smali: but his extensive knowledge of patristic Greelc, and his found ju igment, helped hini noless in the de sacerdotio than in other portions of his emtion. His texi is one of the most truStwortlay thathas appeared: and Ι have never dissered froni hini ivithout hesitation.

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xl INTROD UC NON At the end of the eighth and concluding volume os Savde's edition there are Latin notes, both cratical andeXplanato , on the de sac. They are by the editor and certain os his Englisti mends olan Boys, Canon os

Ducaeus Fronton du Duc) was engaged in Paras ona similar task. His edition', which included a Latintranslation os the Greeli original, was test linfinished at Firanto's early death: hut ivas completed in siκ volumes by Federicus and Claudius Μorelliis. In I 636 an edition

Variant rea lings and notes, in Latin, are to befound at the end of volumes Ι, 4, and 6 of the originaledition. The Latin translation, vhich was by Fmnio himself, was based on uiat os Germanus BriXius Ι3 34).

Accotriing to Fulier, in his Morthies of En lanae, the

The titie of the Burth volume is: S. sarris nostri Ioannis Chus sonii Arehiepiscopi Constantinopolitani de sacerdotio libri π eu. nunc frimum Gram aer Latine coniunctim in DdMin Fronto Trucaeus, Sori tatis Theolo us-Lutetiae Paritiorum apud Claudium Moralium 16I . See Selimann p. xli et the number os inis volume, according to Setiniann, was oven as X in his copy; this inust be a mere misprint, sorthere Was no tenth volume of the work untii 1636.

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hesore hini membranae nobilissimi viri Fr. Olivarii' D'): and the vetus interpretatio, which he Consulted

in the edition published at Paris in s 324 by Petriis

Latin translation. Prefixed to the teκt are valvabie dissertations on the Christi an praesthood: also a liseos Chrysostoni talcen horn Cave's hastorta liueraraa,

inciviled in his edition of the works of Chrysostom. Notes, Chiefly of a critical Character, Coi Clinie Hughes' vota. In the farsi se v sentences of these notes Hughes

France.... Then Fronto Ducaeus ... caused them to hie prinieci there ivith

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xlii INTROD NON edition, as heing the best os ait: biit in a se v passages he had adopted the readings os Hoeschel and Frmnto. Occasionalty he had differed stoin ali three editors, and

had used for the com ection os the texi the manuscripteViden e aCCumulated by Fronto. Hughes' texi is in no respect helter than those of his predecessors: biit in his notes he osten advocates the triae reacting, and supporis his vlexus with Considerable learning and Judg-

ment.

7. It is Convenient to rechon as an independentemtion that os S. Thiriby, whicli appeared in Cambracige in Iria: but this cloes not prosess to he more than a seconci emtion of Hughes' ivork, upon whicli Hughes himself was en aged at the time of his death. Besides the de sacerdotio, however, Thiriby's emtion os Hughes contained the oratio apolo etica de se u os Gregoryos Nagiangus, the Surieci os this oration being, as velaave Seen, CloSely alcin to that os Chrysostoni's treatiseon the praesthoody. As regarcis the texi, Thiriby telis iis that the farsit vo books, and part of the thiri', of the de sacerdotio

The titie of Thiriby's edition is: S'. Ioannis cir sostomi demeredorio libri VT. Graece re Latine: quibus disseriationes quasdam praemisis contra M An Diso inscriptum inccleriae Christianae LMO Vin ea a,' norasque adierit Ioannes Humes A.Μ, Collegis Iesu Canclabr. Socius.-Editio aurea, priore illa emendatior et auctior: accesti S. Gremoris Naarangena eiusdem sedis Arehiepiscopi de eodem aromen o conscri a oratio a lometica. Opem S. Thirib A.B., eiusiam Colleris alumni. Cantabrigiae, e is acataranicis, impensis Erin. δεσο, BGHosolae Cantabr.

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to be satisfied with the way in vhich he has deest xviththe problenis of textuat Craticism. For a long time scholars have been a vare of theunsatisfactory nature of the Cratical fide os Montiaticon'sother vise usesul edition : and Ι ani thias relieved Doni thenecessity os demonstrating iis inadequaCy in regard tothe texi of the de sacerdotio in particular. I need on lyreser to the Clear and convincing proos of Μontiaticon's remissness given by Dr F. Field, one of the most eminent editors of Ch sostoni, in his edition os the Homilies

pp. xili sq.: thus sp. xiv codices non modo non contulis bonus monachus, sed interdum ne inspexit quidem ...' ne unum quirim codicemi nominatim appellat, sed unum,' ' duo alios,' hoc vel illud Dore monens, umbris aesimulacris lectorem ludis '' etc. For illustrations of the unsatisfacto nature os Μonisaucon's apparatus to the G sac., See furnal of Theri.

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volita enable us to identi sy it, but telis us vaguely that

of titile or no significance, he onalis potnis os reali inportanCe. The and style os Chrysostoni he had not sumtaently mastered, so that he is osten ledio preser an inferior reacling. In Shori, the Cratical partos Μontiaucon's edition is that which it is least possibie

Charies de Cainbout de Coistin Bibliothhmie Cois lin),

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Iohannis Chus tomi Δε sacertariso libra sex gram et latine. Granque Meo nisi et notis inditabusque aucti, eo maxime conritio ut coenobio An IV embergico An alumni, et ceteri qui Novo Testamen o Graece imbuta sunt, ad scriptores ecclesiasticos suavi gustu invisentur fatalique methodo

praeparentur. Opera A. Alberta Bengelis. Stutordiae I 725. Besides thereuised edition by Leo see belo vj inere have been many reprinis of Bengelan the stereotyped Taiichnitet edition in 18a 5, 1865, 1872, 1887, 19-ὶ.

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Lei petig in I 8 34'. This is a revised edition os Bengel; biit ivitii additional notes by Leo himself, and without the Latin translation which Bengel had appendet'. The texi is in the main that os Bengel; Leo contenteo

dono. Os more importance than the texi is the inim- duction, vhich gives a valvabie list of the ea ly editions of the treatiSe. I 2. In I 839 appeare 1 ine farsi volume containing inter alia the de sacerdoti,in os a revised Benedictine edition . The publishers ivere Gavine Frhres: the editor vas Theobata Fiκ, who has set sorth ivith great clearmessthe improvenients intre Huced into Montiaticon's teκt in

this recenSion. The niost important assistance uvas derived stram

Savile's edition: and the editor explicitly states the

Leo Praefatio sto his editioni p. ix.

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instria clive by those who may Stili dolabi the stipemorityos Savile's texi to that os Monifaticon. In regam' to the de sacerdotio the editor of the revised Benedictine edition rendered a valvabie serviceto scholars by publiShing very suli and accurate collations os three manuSCripis, PariSinus 49a, Parisinus 799 and cocleκ Ρassioneus. These collations may be Mundat the end of the first complete volume i.e. os vol. i pars alter ) of the edition. 13. In Μigne's Patrologoa Graeca, Chrysostonis vorkS OCCUPy VolumeS 47 to 64. The cie face otio is in voltune 48. There is nothing to inclicate ivliat

Nae Edisionis: δε susus editionis Savim) per niversa volumina duotaetam Mon faticoniano operi inra Mibiliter profuis: sed quonianus ab ipso starim

anitio et ubique penitus omnia ex Savi na transumeren ur quibus emendari solueris ci sostomus, obsuris frimo diserium testimonium Beneaeistino Ande melioribus ei cosioriorabus subsidias ex quibus se. ..orationem Chusos omicam constituisse prostentur etc.... Maiorem et i diuisi fraceaeente opere auctoritatem, evidentibus dociιmentis tandem ceaeentes, debebamus Iribuere.' S. Ioannis cirros omi opera selecta Graece et Latine: vol. i, Paris 186I.