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iad Woman, - adherent os, inheritaino effecta es, and adopta a Myeallod Corbicius, Who after ardae us himself Manes, 408, 409. Thomas, Addas, and Hermes, disciplea ol Manes, their mlation, 40s,410. Time, a, lor everything, 12, 249, 250. Tongus, tho proper reislation OL 16.
canona respecting, 200, 20l. Universo, the, constitution Oi, urgea againat tho Epicurean theory Mino formation os, 17 VEIL, tho, on Μωea' face, 377, 378, 379. Valerian, tho emperor, firat favoura, but after arti persecutes, the
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INTRODUCTOR U NOTICE BU THETRANSLATOR.
lΗESE Documents wero selected by the late Dr. Cureton, from manuscripta acquired by tho Brittili Mumum from tho Nitrian Monastery in LoWer Egypt, of Whicli the first portion arrivedin 1841, the second in 1843, and a third in 1847. Tho preparation of them for publication occupied the closing dvs of his lite. It is to bo regretted that his dealli occurred
is uso the words of Dr. W. Wright, tho editor of tho posthumous Work, he had studied the questions connected ith this volume for years and from every potnt of Vie .' In a note occurring in tho prefaco in his Festat Leites s of Athanasius, p. xxiii, he says: I have found among the Syriae Μω. in tho British Museum a considerable portion of thooriginal Aramaic document Which Eusebius cites as preservedin tho archives of Edessa, and various passages trom it quotedis severat authors, With other testimontes Which seem to bosumcient to est lish tho fact of the early conversion of thainhabitants of that city, and among them of the hing himself, although his successors alterWards relapsed into paganism. These, together With accounts of the martyrdom of some of
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2 SYRIAC DOCUMENTS CONCERNING EDESSA. Epistios attributed to Abgar, hing of Edessa, and our Lorde
an opinion whicli ho fhared with such illustrious scholare as
value belongs to these Documenta, it may be proper to obseris that tho severat matters contained in them are so far di tinci hom ono another that they do not necessarily stand orsali together. Such matters are: the celebrated Episses, thoconversion of Κing Abgar Uchomo, the visit os Thaddaeus, and the early prevalence of Christianity at Edessa. Withrogard to the letters said to have passed belWeen Abgar andour Lord, it seems suffcient, Without referring to tho internia evidence, to remar th Lardner and Neander, that it is incon iv le hoW anything written by Christ should hau
remained doWn to tho time os Eusebius unknown to the restos the worldJ Tho conversion of Abgar is a distinct matteros inqui . But on this again, doubi, to say ths least, is cast by the statem ent that Abgar Bar Manu, Who DigninbelWeen the years 160 and 170 A.D., is the fidit hing os Edessaon Whose colas the usus symbols of the Baal-Worship Athe country are Wanting, these being replaced in his case bytho sim os tho Crom. Ii this refers to a complete series of the coins of Edessa, the evidence inorded must be consideria Very strong. For although, to talis a parallel instance, oseeli in vata for Christian emblems on the coinago of Comatantine, tho fidit Christian emperor,' ' this may madibbe accounted for is his preference of military distinction to the hvmbler hono a conferred by his non satin, Whilst udoes not appear that ant Christian emblems are found, andon the colus of his son and successor Christian emblema domine their appearance. The other tWo subjecis referred todo not lie under the fame suspicion. There is nothing in
the nature of the cam to disprovo the visit os Thaddaeus Addaeus -nothing improbabie in tho iaci lueti, Whatever