Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...IN THE DAYS OF JUSTIN, WHO, AFTER REIGNING NINE YEARS DIED IN THE YEAR FIVE, AND THIS JUSTINIAN OF OUR DAY, HIS SISTER'S SON, BECAME KING AFTER HIM The chief priests4 in the days of Justin are as follows: --Of Rome, Hormisda; of Alexandria, Timothy; of Jerusalem, Peter, who succeeded John; and of Antioch, Paul the Jew, who was driven out, and after him Euphrasius, who was '531-'531-2 3 Isa. xxvi. 20. 4 Cf. Mich. fol. 167 v. burnt in the earthquake of Antioch in the year four,1 and after him was Ephraim of Amida; of Constantinople, Epiphanius. There is comprised in this space of time2 a space of nine years. CHAPTER VII THE SEVENTH CHAPTER. IN IT IS CONTAINED BELOW THE PROLOGUE COMPOSED BY MORO, BISHOP OF AMIDA, IN THE GREEK TONGUE IN THE TETREUANGELION "In order4 to gather together the sense of a long treatise a man stores up a knowledge of these things succinctly under a few heads in his mind and memory5 and understanding. And we may understand these things from the heads6 which are set down in this book; and these again cause the inner meaning7 of all that is in them to pass rapidly and succinctly into the mind, when heard and considered8 in due order. For, if a man gathers together the record of the Gospels, he will learn from it that God became incarnate, and that divine0 as well as human properties are His, by which He made10 the 1526. We should probably read; "book," for P-Sl. 3 This chapter is contained in Cod. Rom., where the heading is, "The prologue composed concisely under heads by the holy Moro, bishop of Amida, a man deserving of blessed memory, upon the Gospel and the dispensation of Christ in the flesh."--Cf. p. 221. Mich. fol. 162 ff. 5 The M.S. has not J, as L. prints, before jjjOIOi. The MS. has...
