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Work: Didascalia Apostolorum
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Didascalia Apostolorum — Gibson 1903 English, OCR
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vi DIDASCALIA. I have endeavoured to translate each Syriac word by an English word conveying its original meaning, and to avoid any expression that savours of ambiguity. I am glad to see that Professor Nau also translates *^ca^ = lepevs, alone as "priest," and Turn = Trpeafivrepos, which I call " Elder," he calls " vieillard." He has not condescended to adopt the still more appropriate word "ancien," used by his Protestant countrymen; and is obliged, in consequence, still further to explain it by drawing attention to…
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- Didascalia Apostolorum — Gibson 1903 English, OCR
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- Public domain
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- eng
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- Complete supplied historical English Gibson 1903 edition: title/introduction, historical source/quotation tables, translation through printed p.112 and Nau chronology appendix. This Syriac-tradition translation is distinct from the Ethiopic Didascalia. Empty scan pages, if any, have no reading passage; original raw artifacts preserve them: [15, 19]. Uncorrected source OCR may contain spelling, glyph and line-order errors. Reader navigation uses physical source pages, not reconstructed historical chapters.
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Recorded provenance: Source.raw is the exact retained upstream DjVu XML artifact, not a synthesized source. Reading body extracts its original WORD text in LINE order, joined with LF. Selected physical object order and textual boundaries identify this source section; raw full TXT/XML retained. No words, historical uncertainty or OCR errors silently corrected. Complete supplied historical English Gibson 1903 edition: title/introduction, historical source/quotation tables, translation through printed p.112 and Nau chronology appendix. This Syriac-tradition translation is distinct from the Ethiopic Didascalia. Empty scan pages, if any, have no reading passage; original raw artifacts preserve them: [15, 19].
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