Didascalia Apostolorum

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NOTES. Page 13, f. 9 b. These discourses of John and Matthew are almost identical with the commencement of the AtSa^r/. Page 1 8, f. n b. The Doctrine of Addai is also contained under the title Doctrine of the Apostles in Cureton, Syriac Documents, 1864, pp. 24 ff. with notes on p. 1 66 ff. In Lagarde's Reliquiae Juris Ecclesiastici Antiquissimae Graece, pp. 89 — 92, will be found a translation into Greek of this portion of the Didascalia, as far as to page 21, 1. 24, inclusive. Lagarde has also translated the first six books into Greek for Bunsen (see Christianity and Mankind, vol. vi.). For quotations from the Didascalia in the works of St Epiphanius (obiit 403) see this work of Bunsen, pp. 41, 42. Page 22, 1. 31. The mention of "a Nestorian" in this place would make us doubt the high antiquity of the Didascalia, if we had any grounds for supposing these Canons to be an integral portion of it. Page 35, 1. 12 levity. For this addition in Ezekiel xxxiv. 4 read an article by Dr Eberhard Nestle in the Zeitschrift fur N.T. Wissenschaft (ed. Preuschen), for 1900, p. 176. Page 36, 1. 20 and our sins. This addition in the Lord's Prayer is also found on the margin of the Pococke MS. (Bodleian 10) and it is the reading of the Acts of Thomas (see Encyclopaedia Biblica, 2818, § 4), though not in the ancient form of those contained in the Sinai Palimpsest. Page 38, 1. 9 in a copper star. This addition to 2 Chron. xxxiii. 1 1 has hitherto been known only from the Chronicon of Bar Hebrseus (see ed. Bruns, and Kirsch, p. 26, or ed. Bedjan, p. 27) and from Anastasius on Psalm vi. (see Wace, Apocrypha, vol. ii. p. 363). The Jewish Targum on 2 Chron. xxxiii. 1 1 says that Manasseh was confined in a K&JTlJ HI/ID — a mule of brass. This is supposed by Dr Nestle to be a mistake for H /TD = zodiac. He has just published an explanation of this word in the Zeitschrift f. d. alttest. Wissenschaft. I understand him to mean that it was a brazen bull, representing the constellation Taurus, in which the unfortunate king was enclosed. Page 72, footnote. Mary is called in Cod. £ the daughter of James, as in the Lewis Palimpsest and in the Palestinian Syriac, Mark xvi. i.